Rhode Island

Clergy Sexual Abuse & Institutional Cover-Up in Rhode Island: 315 Children, 72 Accused Clergy, Decades of Priest Shuffling and File Destruction by the Diocese of Providence — Attorney911 Pursues the Diocese and the Bishops Behind the Concealment, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Secure the Personnel Files, Transfer Records and the AG’s 282-Page Findings Before Surviving Evidence Is Lost, Rhode Island’s Fraudulent-Concealment Doctrine Tolls the Statute of Limitations When an Institution Hides the Truth, Punitive Damages for Wanton and Willful Conduct, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Report Changed Everything — But It Didn’t Change the Clock If you are reading this, you may have spent decades carrying something that no one in authority was willing to confirm. On March 4, 2026, Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha released a 282-page report documenting what the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence concealed for more than seven decades: the sexual abuse of at least 315 children by 72 priests and deacons, dating back to 1950. The Attorney General called the numbers “staggering, shocking, astounding” — and then added, “we know we didn’t get it all.” For survivors who reported their abuse to the diocese and were questioned, discredited, or ignored — like Dr. Ann Hagan Webb, who was deemed “not credible” by diocesan officials for 32 years — the report is something else entirely. It is the government of Rhode Island looking at what happened to you and saying, in writing: this is real, and you were telling the truth. But validation is not the same as justice. The report is a government findings document, not a verdict. It does not write a check. It does not hold the diocese legally accountable in a court of law. It…

300+ Victims, 72 Credibly Accused Priests & 70 Years of Diocese of Providence Concealment — Rhode Island Clergy Sexual Abuse Attorneys, Attorney911 with Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, We Pursue the Diocese and the Religious-Order Provinces Behind the Priest Shuffle, the Tuesday Group and the File Destruction That Hid Generations of Abuse, We Move to Secure the Secret Archive Files Before They Disappear, Fraudulent Concealment and Equitable Tolling to Overcome the Statute of Limitations in a State Where 40% of Residents Are Catholic, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How Institutional Claims Are Valued and Denied, the Firm Has Recovered $50M+ for Injury Victims — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse: 72 Priests, 300+ Victims, and the Civil Claim That May Still Be Yours If you are reading this page, you may have just seen a name you have carried in silence for decades — confirmed, finally, in a government report built from 250,000 pages of the church’s own secret files. Or you may be the family member who always suspected and now knows. Or you may be someone who has never told a single person what happened to you, and the news that more than 300 others exist has made you realize, for the first time, that what was done to you was not a private catastrophe but part of a pattern a state attorney general has now called “sordid and shameful.” We are Attorney911. We are a trial firm that takes clergy abuse and institutional child sexual abuse cases. We are writing this page for you — the survivor, the family member, the person at the kitchen table at 2 a.m. who has been carrying this alone and is now trying to understand whether the law still offers them anything. It does. But the law in this area is a battlefield, and the single most…

Clergy Sexual Abuse Survivors & the Rhode Island Revival Window: Attorney911 Pursues the Diocese of Providence and the Supervisors Who Reassigned Known Abusers and Concealed Decades of Child Abuse, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, We Secure Diocese Personnel Files and Clergy Assignment Records Before Evidence Degrades, the 2019 Law Reached Individual Perpetrators But Not Institutions — the Revival Window Opens July 1, 2026 and Closes June 30, 2028, Fraudulent Concealment Tolling as an Independent Path If the 1996 Precedent Strikes the Window, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse Revival Window: Your Right to Hold the Institution Accountable If you survived sexual abuse by clergy in Rhode Island, you have been told — by the passage of time, by the statute of limitations, by a system that protected the institution instead of you — that your chance to hold the people who enabled your abuse accountable had expired. The Rhode Island General Assembly is now considering legislation that would reopen that door. A two-year revival window, set to open July 1, 2026 and close June 30, 2028, would allow previously time-barred civil claims against institutions like the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence and against supervisors who failed to protect children from known abusers. We are writing this for you — the survivor who has carried this for years or decades, who may have told no one, who may have tried to move on and found that moving on from what was done to you is not the same as healing from it. We are also writing for the family member who loves a survivor and is trying to understand what this legislation means and whether it is real or just another promise that will collapse…

Clergy Abuse Revival Window Attorneys for Rhode Island Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse: Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Time-Barred Claims Now Revived by Legislation, the Attorney General’s 282-Page Report Documenting Decades of Cover-Up by the Diocese of Providence Is the Liability Roadmap, We Pursue the Chancery Files, Personnel Records and Assignment Histories That Prove Institutional Knowledge Before Aging Witnesses and Old Records Are Lost, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases, Two-Year Filing Window Opens July 1, 2026 and Closes June 30, 2028 — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Rhode Island Clergy Abuse Revival Window: Your Right to File Is Real — and It Has a Hard Deadline If you survived childhood sexual abuse by clergy in Rhode Island, you already know what it cost you. What you may not know is that the Rhode Island legislature has passed a law that reopens the courthouse door — a door that was slammed shut by the statute of limitations before most survivors were ready to walk through it. A two-year “revival window” opens on July 1, 2026, and closes permanently on June 30, 2028. During that window, previously time-barred civil claims against institutions and supervisors who failed to protect children — claims that expired under the old filing deadline — can be filed again. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, which exercises canonical jurisdiction over every parish, school, and Catholic institution in the state, is the primary institutional defendant. And the evidence supporting these claims is extraordinary: a 282-page investigative report by the Rhode Island Attorney General, documenting decades of systematic concealment, reassignment of known abusers, and failure to report abuse to law enforcement. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We built this page for one person:…