The lawyers working on the Alaskan sex-abuse scandal—which, according to lawsuits, involves the current president of Seattle University and some of the most powerful Jesuits in the world—have just announced another round of lawsuits.

A (truncated) version of the press release that dropped today:

Twenty New Alaska Native Victims File Child Sex Abuse Lawsuits Against Jesuits, University President

Second High-Ranking Seattle U Official Accused of Cover-Up

Order's Highest Officer Faces Process Server on First Day In US

Victims Come Forward to Share Stories, Letters, Pictures, Documents With Public, Media

They Also Urge Order Leader to Extend His U.S. Trip to Investigate Plight of Hundreds of Jesuit Sex Abuse Victims

At a press conference, twenty new Alaska Native victims of childhood sexual abuse are announcing lawsuits alleging egregious sex crimes against children in small, remote Alaska Villages. The lawsuits also allege that:

- Another high-ranking Seattle University Official, Father Francis E. Case SJ, as well as current president Stephen J. Sundborg SJ, covered up sex abuse crimes against children,

- The highest ranking international Jesuit official, Father General Aldolfo Nicolas SJ, is responsible for allowing sex abuse in Alaska to continue, and

- Case, Sundborg and Nicolas had access to highly detailed files outlining sexual abuse and the dumping of perpetrator priests in Alaska.

The total number of new sex abuse lawsuits stemming from predator Jesuit priests, employees and volunteers in Alaska is 63.

Victims will be available for individual interviews and will provide photos, "love letters" from perpetrators, documents and other materials for the press to review and record.

The victims lived and were abused in Nulato, Hooper Bay, Stebbins, Chevak, Mountain Village, Nunam Iqua and St. Michael, Alaska.

The basics of the situation, as we know it so far, are in this week's paper*.

Updates after tomorrow's press conference.