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Wednesday, January 23, 2013  Bob Jones University is asking an outside Christian organization that deals with child abuse to investigate how the fundamentalist college responds to abuse allegations.

Thursday, October 18, 2012  Thousands of pages of newly-released documents show that for decades, scoutmasters and others who were accused of molesting children were protected by police, prosecutors, pastors and local Boy Scout leaders.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011  The attorney general's office says it will wait until police investigations are completed before it steps into the case of a sex abuse case at The Citadel.

Monday, November 14, 2011  Citadel president John Rosa says the Charleston military college has lost public trust because of the way it handled reports of sex abuse four years ago. And he says the school is bringing in an outside company to review the procedures in handling such situations with an eye toward making improvements.

Wednesday, November 09, 2011  Penn State trustees fired football coach Joe Paterno and university president Graham Spanier amid the growing furor over how the school handled sex abuse allegations against an assistant coach.