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This weekend, a white cab driver and his white passenger were beaten by a group of black teens in Center City. The passenger ran away from the scene as the cab driver was able to beat his attackers off with a tire iron. The taxi cab beating victim was unidentified, until he wrote a column in the University of Pennsylvania newspaper describing his attack.

UPenn senior, Brian Goldman, says that he was the passenger in the cab and the victim of the unprompted beating, reports the Philadelphia Daily News. The attack happened at about 8:00 p.m. on Saturday night as the young man was headed to a date. He says he does not remember race being a motivation for the attack, but felt that it was more of a case of random violence.

In a criminal child sex abuse trial of four current and former priests, it was revealed that the Philadelphia Archdiocese delayed reporting six priests who were caught with child pornography to law enforcement officials for years.

If a civil Philadelphia Archdiocese sex abuse lawsuit is ever brought, this may be damning evidence that the archdiocese was negligent or careless in keeping children away from potential predators.

Philadelphia sports fans have the reputation of being some of the roughest sports fans in the nation. And that reputation was carried through last week in a brutal Rangers Flyers fan fight, with the New York Rangers fan taking the brunt of the punishment.

But just because someone lost the fight, this does not automatically mean they’re the good guy or innocent victim. However, that may be so in this case after the Philadelphia police revealed additional information on the fight.

If you were wondering how a retired assistant football coach was paying all his legal bills revolving around 50 criminal charges and multiple civil cases, the answer was that Jerry Sandusky wasn't.

Instead of paying out of pocket, the insurance company for Sandusky's Second Mile charity, Federal Insurance Co., was stuck with the Jerry Sandusky legal bill, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. But now the company is trying to get out of paying the bill.

The attorney for 14-year-old Keshana Wilson released a video showing the high school student being attacked by an Allentown police officer in the back of Dieruff High School. The police officer, Jason Ammary is shown using a Taser to shock the girl.

Wilson is now suing Ammary for damages though it’s unclear from the video just how the altercation started, reports WFMZ.

Penn State University could face dozens of civil lawsuits related to the Jerry Sandusky sexual abuse scandal. As we wrote before, Sandusky allegedly raped and molested several boys at the Penn State campus. It's claimed that the university had knowledge of the abuse and yet took no steps to notify the authorities nor prevent Sandusky from coming onto campus.

Faced with massive liability, it'll be interesting to see if the university will actually even have to pay a cent. That's because institutions like universities usually have liability insurance to cover things like sexual misconduct claims, and the Penn State insurance companies may be the ones to actually have to pay.

A 29-year-old man only identified as "John Doe A" brought a civil lawsuit against Jerry Sandusky claiming that the disgraced former Penn State assistant coach molested him over 100 times in a five-year period from 1992 to 1996. The alleged victim says that the abuse first happened when he was ten years old.

In his lawsuit, the alleged victim sued Sandusky, his charity The Second Mile, as well as Penn State University, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. This is probably just the first of many Jerry Sandusky lawsuits.

Pennsylvania state lawmakers are rushing to have new Pennsylvania child abuse reporting laws ready for vote this week in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal.

The new laws would fill many of the holes in existing law that apparently allowed the culture of abuse and ignorance to continue at the Penn State campus, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer.

In the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal at Penn State, you may have heard of the failure of many people to report suspected child abuse.

As some people face criminal charges for not reporting, and others like Joe Paterno have seen their legacies destroyed, you may be wondering if you have a duty to report child abuse.

Here a a few basic questions about reporting child abuse:

Quadrangle Sunrise Senior Living finds itself in an elder abuse lawsuit, after a resident was allegedly caught on tape being abused by facility workers.

Mary French says that her 79-year-old mother complained to her that she was being abused by care workers. So, French placed a secret nanny cam in her mother's room, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer. When French checked the tape, she says that she saw three Quadrangle employees assaulting and harassing her mother.