David Jackson

David Jackson is an investigative reporter at Injustice Watch, where his work focuses on the courts. He earned a Pulitzer Prize at The Washington Post, and was a four-time Pulitzer finalist during his 29 years at the Chicago Tribune, from 1991 through 2020.

Serial pedophile’s career at Chicago Public Schools has largely been hidden. New information shows how he got second chances.

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

By his own admission, serial pedophile Thomas Hacker sexually abused hundreds of children in Illinois and Indiana, exploiting his leadership roles in the Boy Scouts, Catholic churches and suburban Chicago...

Chicago teacher charged with sexual abuse in case allegedly involving 4 teen victims

May 23, 2019 at 6:38 a.m.

A Chicago Public Schools teacher was arrested and charged with sexual abuse this week in a case that allegedly involves four teenage victims. Court records and authorities said Julio Mora,...

Former Chicago teacher pleads guilty to sexually exploiting 16-year-old student

December 12, 2018 at 1:54 a.m.

A former Prosser Career Academy teacher pleaded guilty Monday to sexually exploiting a student in 2013 when she was a 16-year-old sophomore. Scott Gallus kept his hands clasped behind his...

Holy Patronage Church, 900 N. Washtenaw Ave. in Chicago's Humboldt Park neighborhood, is part of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyivan Patriarchate, one of three major Orthodox groups in that country.

Former Ukrainian Orthodox priest charged with exploiting a parishioner; she was a Nazi prison camp survivor

December 12, 2018 at 4:30 p.m.

A former Ukrainian Orthodox priest was charged this week with stealing more than $330,000 from one of his trusting parishioners, a 96-year-old Nazi prison camp survivor who has dementia. Nicholas...

Chicago Public Schools last year ordered the principal at Bogan High School to retake training because she did not call the child-welfare hotline after one of her teachers physically fought a student.

School workers must report suspected abuse — it’s the law. But at CPS, few have been punished for failing to do so.

June 14, 2024 at 6:43 p.m.

Chicago Public Schools’ child-abuse reporting policy is clear: School workers must report suspected abuse to authorities immediately. And the state “mandated reporter” law, enacted more than four decades ago, makes...

A former Clemente Community Academy student brought a Title IX complaint against Chicago Public Schools following an alleged incident in 2016 after school. A tattoo on her forearm says "Survive."

Federal officials withhold grant money from Chicago Public Schools, citing failure to protect students from sexual abuse

May 23, 2019 at 6:19 a.m.

Federal officials are withholding millions of dollars in grant money from Chicago Public Schools because of its failure to protect students from sexual violence, a rare step that signals intensifying...

Johnson Elementary School, where pedophile Marvin Lovett worked before he was shot dead by one of his teen victims. Lovett was accused of sexually abusing at least 19 boys in the North Lawndale community.

Long-buried report concluded Chicago school principal ignored warnings in horrific sexual abuse case

June 14, 2024 at 6:44 p.m.

Marvin Lovett was a trusted mentor to students at Johnson Elementary School. He also was a pedophile. Lovett used a camera hidden in his apartment closet to make secret pornographic...

Stephen Browning and his wife Saundra talk about the news of Oscar Hernandez's extradition at home on Aug. 31, 2018, in Chicago. Hernandez is charged in the 1994 slaying of their son, Armand.

Gang member extradited from Mexico in 1994 slaying of college student

May 31, 2019 at 9:08 p.m.

Gang member Oscar Hernandez vanished from Chicago in 1994 after he allegedly shot and killed a college freshman who happened to drive past the street corner where Hernandez was standing....

Chicago Public Schools CEO Janice Jackson has committed to sharing background check results publicly, though the district has said it will not answer questions about the outcomes until the process is finished.

Days before school starts, CPS still won’t say how many workers have been disqualified by background checks

May 23, 2019 at 6:13 a.m.

With less than a week to go before the official start of Chicago Public Schools’ academic year, the full results of an enormous effort to check the backgrounds of tens...

A law firm's review found "systemic defciencies" in how officials dealt with the issue of sexual misconduct in Chicago Public Schools.

Report: Chicago Public Schools ‘failed to recognize’ extent of systemwide sexual abuse problem

May 23, 2019 at 6:11 a.m.

Broad failures at all levels of Chicago Public Schools kept officials from preventing and responding to sexual abuse suffered by students in the nation’s third-largest school system, according to a...

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