The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

By the time you finish reading this article, at least one new case of child sexual abuse will have been reported. In the US, a child is sexually assaulted every nine minutes. In the UK, this figure is closer to one every seven minutes. The sexual abuse of children is…

The Internet Watch Foundation said it is the first time it has seen such young children subjected to this kind of abuse

Research into 12- to 17-year-olds adds to concerns that Covid has left them more vulnerable in their country

NEW YORK — When Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to nonexistent. This long running off-Broadway play, which charts the systematic abuse of a young woman by her uncle, explained,…

Megan Reid, from Livingston, was just 17 when tragically took her own life after suffering longstanding sexual abuse from her father, Joseph McGinn, who was jailed in 2019.

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…