The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Peter Gerard Scully was arrested in 2015 in Malaybalay in Philippine city after fleeing from Australia in 2011

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent sexual abuse victims, Virginia Giuffre, has settled a bitterly fought defamation lawsuit with famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz.

The National Redress Scheme for victim-survivours of institutional child sexual abuse has been getting an average of 776 applications a month since March.

Ms Giuffre said in a statement that she genuinely believed the claim, but that she was in a stressful and traumatic environment

France's Catholic Church has revealed that 11 former or serving bishops have been accused of sexual violence or failing to report cases of abuse. Among them, a cardinal who confessed to assaulting a girl in the 1980s and who now faces an inquiry by prosecutors in Marseille.

Zoe Duncan did not get to hear the apology to child sexual abuse victims in Tasmania on Tuesday. Instead, her family carried her photo and heard words which, while welcomed, will "mean nothing without action".

Premier Jeremy Rockliff and others have delivered a historic apology from Tasmania's parliament to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions, almost two years to the day since the government announced an investigation into the allegations.

Tasmania's premier has delivered a formal apology to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions after harrowing evidence at an inquiry.

The cheerleading company that makes the sport's top uniforms, camps and competitions is vehemently denying accusations it helped facilitate alleged sexual abuse at gyms across the Southeast outlined in a series of federal lawsuits

The Justice Department report urges an overhaul in the way the Bureau of Prisons works to prevent and investigate sexual abuse by prison employees against women in their custody.

The victim says he was 13 years old when Christopher Cooksley abused him in the 1980s, leading the boy to rely on drugs and alcohol to cope.