The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Bureau of Prisons closes California facility and suspends operations at six others as rights activists call for clemency

The scale of online child sexual abuse is immense: estimates suggest there are more than 300 million child victims of online sexual abuse globally.

A former youth worker will spend at least a decade behind bars for the long-term sexual abuse of young boys across decades, many of them vulnerable.

The messaging platform will use tools from the Internet Watch Foundation to help detect and remove abuse material.

Stéphane Babonneau had to watch thousands of videos of Gisèle Pelicot being raped, before disclosing their horror to her. He explains how she found the courage to cope – and to change the world for other survivors

There are many social issues enabled by social media, including sexting, the creation of and access to child sexual abuse material and cyber bullying.

A clemency petition for a Missouri man facing the death penalty for sexually assaulting and killing a child says he was a frequent victim of physical and sexual abuse in his youth and has a “structurally abnormal” brain that impairs his judgment

Reading the news about United States president-elect Donald Trump’s picks for cabinet positions, one might wonder why so many of his choices include men accused of sexually abusing women and girls, such as Elon Musk, Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., as well as a woman alleged…

A settlement of about $7.5 million will be paid to survivors of alleged child sexual abuse at a hospital the focus of a damning inquiry.

The idea of children being abused within their family is too upsetting for adults to contemplate. But we must

A former director said he was ‘horrified’ when he first heard allegations that Mr Al Fayed had abused hundreds of women.