NEW ORLEANS — Eyewitness Investigator David Hammer has been following the Church sex abuse scandal with a number of investigative reports that are still ongoing.
Here is a list of the stories that he has reported so far. There are more to come soon.
- Everything but the money: Archdiocese, abuse survivors agree on non-monetary plan
- Expert issues report on how to settle highly contentious New Orleans church bankruptcy case
- Expert hired to help resolve New Orleans archdiocese bankruptcy faces FBI scrutiny
- Louisiana diocese prepares to file for bankruptcy over clergy abuse claims
- New Orleans archdiocese bankruptcy parties wary of turnaround expert after WSJ investigation
- New trial date set for admitted pedophile priest Lawrence Hecker
- Texas files more sexual assault charges against Catholic priest accused of preying on women
- Judge's controversial decisions in rape cases arouse anger
- Pedophile priest Lawrence Hecker in the hospital, Judge recuses himself
- Judge recuses himself from Hecker rape trial moments before start
- Jury selection set to begin in rape trial of pedophile priest
- Another Catholic institution tries to block child sex-abuse lawsuits
- Abuse survivors, archdiocese submit competing settlement plans
- Pedophile priest Lawrence Hecker is 'fragilely competent' ahead of rape trial
- Pedophile priest Lawrence Hecker has dementia, report says
- Ex-NOPD child abuse detective, himself a serial molester, confronted by WWL, Guardian
- Judge appoints 'turnaround expert' to assess N.O. Archdiocese's bankruptcy
- Independent expert to be hired in New Orleans archdiocese's long, expensive bankruptcy case
- Man in charge of Archdiocese’s $40 million bankruptcy makes stunning admission
- Doctor says accused rapist priest has dementia, trial date set
- 'Where's his suffering?' Man who said he was abused by priest upset over lack of punishment
- Popular Luling priest removed amid comments comparing LGBTQ to animals; sex abuse claims
- Another delay in the rape and kidnapping trial of 92-year-old pries
- La. Supreme Court reverses itself, upholds law allowing old child sex abuse lawsuits
- Hecker's health derails competency hearing for confessed pedophile priest
- 'It wasn't a big deal in those days,' More testimony from pedophile priest's 2020 deposition
- State Supreme Court to review decision limiting time child sex abuse victims have to sue
- 4 New Orleans archbishops and a pedophile priest: what did they know and when did they know it?
- 'There's been so many' - Pedophile priest's eye-opening testimony in church sex abuse case
- Stunning accusations of sex abuse in seminary pool; secret signals from one church abuser to others
- Police serve search warrant on New Orleans archdiocese in child sex abuse case
- State Police want everything the New Orleans Archdiocese has on clergy abuse
- Retired priest Lawrence Hecker declared incompetent for rape trial, for now
- DA Williams: 92-year-old priest Lawrence Hecker 'malingering' to avoid rape trial
- Retired priest's rape trial delayed
- Retired New Orleans priest accused of rape may be too ill to stand trial, defense argues
- N.O. archbishop helped pedophile priest get aid, called court order to stop paying him ‘unjust’
- Hundreds of child molestation claims hang in balance at LA Supreme Court
- Jailed priest admitted under oath that he still looks at child porn
- Losing Faith: Why wasn't an abuser on the credibly-accused list until this month
- Secret recording of Catholic deacon's backers offering $400k to child sex abuse victim
- Retired priest Hecker pleads not guilty; gets $800K bond for rape, kidnapping charges
- Catholic churches, schools now on the hook for clergy abuse, Aymond says
- Retired Catholic priest booked on criminal charges
- Why it took 48 years to charge a Catholic priest with rape
- Retired Catholic priest indicted on 4 charges including rape, kidnapping
- Judge denies unsealing testimony of former priest who admitted to sexual abuse
- Priest admits sexual abuse of teens to WWL-TV
- N.O. Archdiocese clergy abuse much greater than we've been told, attorney memo alleges
- 'Utterly ridiculous' – Clergy abuse survivor blasts lawyers
- Archdiocese's lawyers make millions as hundreds of sex abuse survivors haven't seen any money
- Lawyer ordered to pay huge fine for naming accused priest
- FBI investigation into New Orleans clergy abuse could revitalize old cases
- Church sex abuse victims kicked off bankruptcy court panel negotiating with Archdiocese
- Priest ordained in New Orleans accused of abusing minors while serving as Air Force chaplain
- Metairie deacon formally charged with child sex crimes
- Money, pressure to stay silent: New lawsuit outlines abuse claims against Metairie deacon
- Legislature ends statute of limitations for child sex abuse lawsuits
- New clergy sex abuse claims against archdiocese pour in as filing deadline arrives
- Leader of New Orleans clergy abuse victims group ousted over work for archdiocese
- New Orleans archdiocese announces changes to how it responds to priest abuse claims
- 'No sin' - former New Orleans priest says he befriended accuser, denies sex abuse
- Archbishop Aymond and his fiercest critic make peace, pledge to collaborate on abuse crisis
- Losing Faith: How a monstrous New Orleans deacon preyed on victims and avoided justice for decades
- Losing Faith: Prosecutors, victims reflect on pain deacon George Brignac wrought for decades
- Archdiocese of New Orleans pushed confidential settlements with victims of monstrous deacon George Brignac
- Losing Faith: Despite predatory past, deacon welcomed back to Catholic institutions
- Losing Faith: A monster emerges in our midst
- Latest figure in New Orleans clergy abuse scandal worked with Girl Scouts, was Pines Village pastor
- 7 names to be added to New Orleans clergy abuse list
- Suspended Metairie deacon is focus of child criminal rape investigation: JPSO
- Priest abuse victims question if Archdiocese properly investigated, referred cases to Vatican
- Despite New Orleans church's bankruptcy case, 2 accused clergy predators can be deposed, judge says
- Rev. Patrick Wattigny, accused of child molestation, arrested in Georgia
- Aymond wants credibly accused clergymen out of priesthood
- New Orleans Archdiocese priests rally in support of Archbishop Aymond
- Survivors say Aymond 'has lost control of his priests' after difficult, lurid week
- Shocking allegations from Pearl River priest's arrest last week
- Catholic high school principal blasts Archdiocese for not disclosing chaplain’s texts to student
- Man says 2 New Orleans priests abused him; church gave him unlimited therapy but no abuse listing
- Priest accused of 2013 abuse allegedly sent inappropriate texts to minor in 2020
- Former De La Salle principal and another religious brother accused of molesting student in the 80s
- Court sets March 1 deadline for claims of sex abuse by priests
- Abuse victims challenge legitimacy of Archdiocese bankruptcy claim
- New Orleans' archdiocese adds priest to credibly accused list after almost 2 decades of allegations
- New Orleans priest continued serving 13 years after abuse claim landed him in treatment
- Victim of clergy abuse says Archdiocese tried to keep settlement details secret, against its own rules
- Priest abuse victims ask court to dismiss New Orleans Archdiocese bankruptcy
- LIST: Clergy with credible accusations of abuse against children in Archdiocese of New Orleans
- Archdiocese removes deacon in Metairie church parish over abuse allegation
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