The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

E Jean Carroll will be awarded damages after successfully suing the former president for battery

Acts carried out include strangulation, choking or slapping

Sexual abusers are disgusting "enemies" who deserve to be condemned and punished - but also deserve Christian love and pastoral care because they too are children of God, Pope Francis said.

Children’s commissioner for England calls for ‘robust’ measures in UK’s online safety bill to protect young people

The most common acts documented were name-calling while the most common category of sexual violence was physical aggression.

Beth Heinrich has become the public face of a battle to see the Anglican church admit its failings in its handling of historical child sexual abuse claims, holding onto a battered, brown suitcase of "love letters", photographs and trinkets.

The missing of a differently-abled woman, allegedly a victim and a witness in a sexual abuse case, is raising many eyebrows. The 21-year-old hearing and speech-impaired woman went missing from a private school for visually impaired persons at Gunadala in Vijayawada on March 22. The woman, an orphan, has been…

Pope Francis on Friday praised the work of an international Vatican commission on sexual abuse prevention, following the recent acrimonious resignation of a high-profile member who accused it of lacking transparency.

'(Marist Brothers) should not, in my view, have the benefit of its own inaction', Justice Nicholas Chen said.

An attorney who used his personal wealth to bankroll two unsuccessful runs for governor has pleaded guilty to possession of thousands of images of child sexual abuse

The change is the result of a campaign being led by abuse survivor and former Australian of the Year Grace Tame, and is similar to changes made in other states.