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Sexual abuse survivors launch national day to encourage others to speak up

Grace Tame's Australian of the Year award seemed like the country was finally acknowledging survivors, says Tiffany Skeggs. Now, there is a national day, in part to help encourage more people to speak up.

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Killer who murdered schoolgirl to hide his sexual abuse dies without body being found

Neo-Nazi Robert Ewing – who a judge described as ‘evil incarnate’ when sentencing him to life in prison – refused to tell police where he and accomplice Gareth Dewhurst disposed of Paige Chivers' body

Daily Mirror

Gardai probing allegations of sexual abuse as 57 claims made against Blackrock College Holy Ghost Order

The Spiritans previously said more than 233 people have made allegations of abuse against identified Irish Spiritans in ministries in Ireland and abroad

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LAPD watchdog to oversee investigation into cover-up of sexual assault report against Moonves

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Department's inspector general will oversee an investigation into how at least one LAPD official became involved in a scheme to cover up sexual abuse allegations by former CBS Corp. Chief Leslie Moonves.

Los Angeles Times

Record amount of online child abuse blocked, safety group says

The Internet Watch Foundation has warned that online safety laws must be brought in swiftly to protect children.

The Independent UK

Australian man sentenced to 129 years in the Philippines for child sexual abuse

Peter Gerard Scully was arrested in 2015 in Malaybalay in Philippine city after fleeing from Australia in 2011

The Independent UK

In victory for Dershowitz, Epstein victim says: I ‘may have made a mistake’ in accusing him

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent sexual abuse victims, Virginia Giuffre, has settled a bitterly fought defamation lawsuit with famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz.

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More funds for National Redress Scheme

The National Redress Scheme for victim-survivours of institutional child sexual abuse has been getting an average of 776 applications a month since March.

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Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre says she was wrong to accuse Alan Dershowitz of sexual abuse

Ms Giuffre said in a statement that she genuinely believed the claim, but that she was in a stressful and traumatic environment

The Independent UK

French Catholic Church in upheaval following sexual abuse revelations

France's Catholic Church has revealed that 11 former or serving bishops have been accused of sexual violence or failing to report cases of abuse. Among them, a cardinal who confessed to assaulting a girl in the 1980s and who now faces an inquiry by prosecutors in Marseille.

Radio France Internationale

Survivors and families welcome Tasmanian apology to child sexual abuse victims, but demand actions follow words

Zoe Duncan did not get to hear the apology to child sexual abuse victims in Tasmania on Tuesday. Instead, her family carried her photo and heard words which, while welcomed, will "mean nothing without action".

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Child sexual abuse survivors receive formal apology from Tasmanian government in parliament

Premier Jeremy Rockliff and others have delivered a historic apology from Tasmania's parliament to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions, almost two years to the day since the government announced an investigation into the allegations.

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Tas premier says sorry to abuse survivors

Tasmania's premier has delivered a formal apology to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions after harrowing evidence at an inquiry.

AAP

Cheer company Varsity Spirit denies abuse involvement

The cheerleading company that makes the sport's top uniforms, camps and competitions is vehemently denying accusations it helped facilitate alleged sexual abuse at gyms across the Southeast outlined in a series of federal lawsuits

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Guards who sexually abuse inmates haven't been punished harshly enough, DOJ memo says

The Justice Department report urges an overhaul in the way the Bureau of Prisons works to prevent and investigate sexual abuse by prison employees against women in their custody.

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Foster parent who cared for up to 300 boys pleads guilty to historic child sexual abuse in Canberra

The victim says he was 13 years old when Christopher Cooksley abused him in the 1980s, leading the boy to rely on drugs and alcohol to cope.

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Hillsong founder Brian Houston takes aim at church board in Facebook livestream

Hillsong founder Brian Houston takes aim at the church board, saying he was "squeezed out" as senior pastor after being charged with covering up his father's sexual abuse.

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Child sexual abuse review: listening to children and young people is crucial

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile and Rolf Harris scandals, has published its final report. Commissioned by then home secretary Theresa May in 2014, the inquiry has spent seven years examining how state and private institutions failed to protect…

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Wales Online

Woman with thousands of 'harrowing' child abuse images pretended to be mute at trial

But Lydia Chadwick later went on to defend herself in court

The National (Scotland)

SNP call for independent investigation into sexual abuse of women in Royal Navy

THE SNP’s calls for a “fully transparent, truly independent investigation” into allegations of bullying and sexual harassment of women in the…

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Launceston General Hospital missed a chance to change culture in the 90s, former business manager says

Despite leaving his job at the Launceston General Hospital at the end of the 90s, Lawrence Donaldson is passionate about cultural change at the institution.

Dublin Live

'Scammers emailed us asking for €5k over sick child sexual abuse material claims'

A gang is now sending out emails claiming the receiver is being investigated by the gardai

Glasgow Live

Woman discovered video of rape which happened years earlier as she slept

The High Court in Glasgow heard "she had no idea...until she discovered the video years later" after the victim suffered a campaign of physical and sexual abuse at the hands of Allan Alexander.

Irish Mirror

Scam claims gardai are investigating victims for possessing sick child sexual abuse material

Exclusive: Gardai told us they were aware of the email and stressed it was entirely fake

Tribune News Service

Nessel issues first of 7 reports in Michigan clergy sexual abuse investigation

Attorney General Dana Nessel's office investigated sexual abuse allegations against roughly 44 priests as part of its investigation into the Diocese of Marquette's handling of clergy sexual abuse allegations, according to the first of seven reports released by Nessel's office Thursday.

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