The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

French Prime Minister François Bayrou has vowed to support an investigation into decades of alleged abuse at a Catholic school, following accusations from the left that he misled parliament by claiming he was unaware of the case while he was a local official and education minister. Pressure on Bayrou increased…

Caroline Darian was at home in Paris when she received a call from her mother, Gisèle Pelicot, telling her that her husband and Darian’s father, Dominique, had been arrested. The clock above the cooker had just struck 8:25 pm. Darian had been surveying the Japanese takeaway she’d brought home for…

Former California school counselor Matthew Daniel Johnson was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for secretly recording students in a school bathroom and possessing child sexual abuse material.

Police said the charges were the ‘tip of the iceberg’ of a ‘very, very large problem’.

A woman helped her violent and abusive partner give methamphetamine to a 13-year-old boy before the couple sexually assaulted him, a judge has heard.

Lawyers sparred before New York’s top court over how specific a man alleging sexual abuse decades ago needs to be in his lawsuit against the state

A compensation scheme for child sexual abuse victims has allegedly been targeted by a fraud syndicate promoting false claims for profit.

A claim was filed on behalf of Rauri Cannon on Wednesday, court records show.

Spacey was previously acquitted in criminal proceedings of several sexual offences alleged by four men between 2001 and 2013