The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Across Australia child sexual abuse survivors have to contend with church memorials to their abusers and those who protected them

CHICAGO — Federal prosecutors in Chicago are asking for a 25-year consecutive prison sentence for R. Kelly for his conviction last year on child pornography charges, saying he’s a “serial sexual predator” who has shown no remorse for his crimes and tried to blame his victims for their own abuse.

Indigenous man claims he was repeatedly abused as a teenager by three staff members in case lawyer says reflects how centre ‘was operating at that time’

The former Liberal minister turned independent says his case will ‘serve as a reminder of why a person is innocent until proven otherwise’

A former Don Dale detainee is suing the Northern Territory government alleging sexual abuse by staff as nine other ex-juvenile inmates come forward with similar complaints over a 23-year period.

The American-born conman had created an online news site on which he named and abused a woman who’d been accusing his idol of sexual abuse.

SAN DIEGO — The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego is warning it may have to file bankruptcy in the future because of the potential fallout from hundreds of pending lawsuits alleging sexual abuse by clergy over the last 75 years.

This week, Cricket ACT confirmed its membership of the National Redress Scheme as a response to historical child sexual abuse in its junior squads. But survivors are already bypassing the scheme to pursue lawsuits.

LOS ANGELES — Coaches at their high school began abusing them, they say, when they were 14 and 15 years old.