sexually abused

KENNEWICK  (AP) — Jury selection has started in a civil trial involving three men who claim a Washington school district failed to protect them from being sexually abused by a teacher and coach. The Tri-City Herald reports jury selection will continue Tuesday...

SEATTLE (AP) — A man who claimed that Seattle Mayor Ed Murray sexually abused him in the 1980s when he was a teenager says the mayor's decision to drop his re-election bid is a step toward justice and truth. That's according to the Delvonn Heckard's lawyer, Lincoln Beauregard...

TACOMA (AP) — A lawsuit has accused a Washington school district of failing to protect a female special needs student from a male special needs classmate who sexually abused her in 2012. The News Tribune reports the lawsuit was filed earlier this month against the Bethel School District for alleged abuse at Bethel High School in Spanaway...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Archdiocese says it will pay just over $9 million to eight women who were sexually abused as children by a former priest in Whatcom and Skagit counties. The archdiocese said in a news release Wednesday that Michael Cody abused the girls between 1968 and 1974 at churches in Burlington, La Conner, Swinomish and Bellingham. ...