The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

A witness in the case against Hillsong founder Brian Houston says he never told him not to disclose his father Frank Houston's abuse of a young boy to police.

The scene was so bloody that it was initially suspected Mooney – who served jail time for the repeated sexual abuse of a boy almost 20 years ago – had been stabbed. But it is now understood he was beaten to death with a weapon.

Adult survivors of sexual abuse can now file lawsuits even if the statute of limitations on their claims had already run out

BALTIMORE — Women featured in “The Keepers,” a 2017 Netflix documentary series about clergy sexual abuse at a Baltimore-area Catholic girls school in the 1960s and ‘70s, expanded on their request Friday for the full public release of a report examining sexual misconduct by clergy throughout the Archdiocese of Baltimore.

The latest lawsuit alleging widespread misconduct across competitive cheerleading says officials permitted two choregraphers to continue working with young athletes after they were investigated for sexual abuse

The latest lawsuit alleging widespread misconduct across competitive cheerleading says officials permitted two choregraphers to continue working with young athletes after they were investigated for sexual abuse

BALTIMORE — Abuse survivors who were featured in “The Keepers,” a widely viewed 2017 Netflix documentary about clergy sexual misconduct at a Baltimore Catholic girls’ school in the 1960s and ’70s, have filed a court motion calling for the full release of a report by the Maryland attorney general on…

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A late clergyman who served the Roman Catholic Diocese of Sacramento for four decades has been accused for the first time of sexually assaulting a child, joining dozens of Sacramento clergy previously implicated in the Catholic Church’s decades-old abuse scandal.

The teacher was in her late 40s when she messaged the student on FB.