The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Observers welcome move as good step after months of pressure, but say more action needed to tackle violence.

A commission investigating child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Tuesday it has already gathered more than 400 testimonies of alleged victims but admitted the number of actual cases was "much higher".

Two New York hospitals have agreed to pay more than $165 million to 147 former patients who have accused a former gynecologist of sexual abuse and misconduct

An ABC investigation uncovers the suppression of sexual abuse at St Brendan's College in Yeppoon involving Christian Brother Darcy Murphy who was later made boarding master and the deputy headmaster of the order's most prestigious Queensland boarding school.

An award-winning charity, the Home of Hope for Girls, provides services to survivors of sexual abuse and child sex trafficking in Johannesburg. Sexual violence rates in South Africa are among the highest recorded in the world. The charity's founder, Khanyisile Motsa, joined us for Perspective to tell us more about…

Case of Peter Ellis marks first time a court in the country has overturned a conviction posthumously

Five years after misconduct allegations ended his Hollywood career, Kevin Spacey appeared in a New York court Thursday to face fellow actor Anthony Rapp's accusation that the disgraced Oscar winner sexually assaulted Rapp in 1986 when he was a minor. One of the first stars to be caught up in…

Megan Rapinoe and her teammates are ‘emotionally exhausted’ after the release of the Sally Yates report into emotional and sexual abuse in the NWSL

London (AFP) - US star Megan Rapinoe has urged football authorities to use the "horrifying" revelations of systemic sexual abuse and misconduct in the American domestic women's game as a catalyst for change.