In May 1997, President Clinton denounced the American fashion industry for cynically abusing teenagers and helping spread heroin usage to a new and younger group of people.

American Roman Catholics say that priests who sexually abuse children and teenagers should be barred from participating in parish life and that any accusations of abuse should be investigated by local law enforcement rather than the church, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll.

A woman working at the school was accused of abusing teenagers soon after it opened (she was acquitted in 2010) and last year, a baby born to a student at the school was found dead.

Allegations that an Orthodox rabbi in Paramus abused teenagers in his charge during a 30-year period continue to ripple through New Jersey Orthodox Jewish communities, with many people increasingly angry over allegations that his supervisors may have tried to cover up his abuses.

Following the advice of therapists at that time, the committee entertained the possibility that some priests who appeared to have successfully undergone treatment after sexually abusing teenagers could be reassigned to supervised posts away from young people.

Now the local church is deeply torn, and Polish Catholics are dismayed by the first case in which such a high-ranking cleric has been accused of sexually abusing teenagers.

He was charged with sexually abusing teenagers whom he met through his work as youth ministry director at St. Raphael's Roman Catholic Church in East Meadow between 1999 and 2001.

A woman working as a dormitory matron at the school was accused of abusing teenagers soon after it was opened.

Under the words "Stolen Innocence," the newspaper's editor and publisher, Gary Rosenblatt, wrote 4,000 words extensively documenting accusations that a "brilliant, charismatic and dynamic" rabbi in Paramus, N.J., had abused teenagers in his charge, emotionally, sexually and physically.