The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García was sentenced last week to nearly 17 years in state prison after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse, putting an end to a case that in its early days made headlines for the astonishingly high $50 million bail amount set by the court.

The reforms passed include a "mechanism to track credible accusations against ministers and pastors."

The European Commission recently proposed regulations to protect children by requiring tech companies to scan the content in their systems for child sexual abuse material. This is an extraordinarily wide-reaching and ambitious effort that would have broad implications beyond the European Union’s borders, including in the U.S.

A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, has documented widespread claims of sex abuse including accusations of rape, cover-ups and gross mistreatment of women seeking justice.

Evra revealed that ‘shame’ caused him to lie to the police when they enquired about his abuser later in life

A witness tells Tasmania's child sexual abuse inquiry she and her sibling were left at a foster home where an alleged child abuser was living, as figures show the out-of-home-care system receives one report of abuse every week.

An inquiry has been told an allegation of child sexual abuse in Tasmania's out-of-home care system is made on average once a week.

DALLAS — Members of the Southern Baptist Convention, the country’s largest Protestant denomination, will have an important decision to make at their annual meeting this week: who to elect as their next president.

A report named hundreds of church leaders accused or found guilty of abusing children and says survivors were mistreated

LOS ANGELES — More than 8,000 Southern Baptists will descend on Anaheim next week for the annual meeting of the largest Protestant denomination in the United States — the first time in 41 years that the two-day meeting has been held in California.

From late August, adults who are worried about their sexual thoughts or behaviours involving children will be able to contact 'Stop it Now! Australia', a confidential phone and online service aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.