The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

After several police complaints, a family’s months-long ordeal, and intervention by the country’s top human rights panel, three priests have finally been booked in a case filed in Pune under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The main accused remains absconding while two prominent priests have been accused…

James Ford, 31, was found guilty of 10 counts of sexual abuse against the same child.

The verdicts come after the foreperson this morning told a judge they did not believe it would be possible to reach unanimous verdicts, an opinion which they said was shared by other panel members.

A former gynecologist at the University of California, Los Angeles has been found guilty on five counts in a sexual abuse case in a Los Angeles court

The city and county council have both repeated apologies to victims

Kevin Spacey on Thursday defeated a sexual abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser didn’t prove his claim that the Oscar winner made an unwanted sexual advance on him when he was 14.

Editorial: The findings of a seven and a half year process must lead to rapid action. The price of past mistakes has been huge suffering

Lawyers criticise ‘loopholes’ in call for mandatory reporting in England and Wales

For seven years, a UK inquiry has examined child sexual abuse. The results should shame us into action, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

‘Centrepiece’ finding is failure by person in position of trust to report abuse allegations should be criminal offence

The inquiry published its overarching report on Thursday.