The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Violence against children is a global problem. A 2020 Global Status Report revealed that every year, almost one billion children globally encounter some form of violence, such as neglect, physical abuse and sexual abuse.

Alleged sexual abuse by a former NSW Labor MP left a young teenager screaming and in pain, a jury has heard.

In a letter Saturday, Cardinal Blase Cupich said an accusation has been reported to the archdiocese that the Rev. Paul Guzman abused a minor when he was a layman — 25 years before entering Mundelein Seminary.

Westernised children of Somalis are being forcibly detained for years ‘back home’ in unregulated, brutal dhaqan celis sites where sexual abuse is rife

In total there were details of 61 offences alleged to have been committed in the workplace against 19 females and 33 males.

Journalist Shannon Molloy is used to sharing his story. In his 2020 memoir, Fourteen (now adapted for the stage), he wrote about growing up gay in regional Queensland in the 1990s, enduring severe bullying.

BALTIMORE — Monday is the deadline for the Maryland Attorney General’s Office to give a Baltimore judge a redacted version of its 456-page report into the history of sexual abuse within the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, clearing the way for its public release.

Head of one Hertfordshire school in survey of 14- to 18-year-olds says it has led to rise in sexual abuse

French victims of sexual abuse by priests are getting reparations at last — and most importantly, official recognition from the church of what happened to them

From Judge Mary Kay Vyskocil's opinion yesterday in The Satanic Temple, Inc. v. Newsweek Magazine LLC, where the Temple sued Newsweek over allegedly libelous statements in an article: 1) Financial Fraud Plaintiff argues that the article was defamatory in implying that Plaintiff engaged in a pattern of embezzlement, which it…

The National Redress Scheme for victims of institutional child sexual abuse continues to see its demand increase, with a record 906 applications in January.