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Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry into child sex abuse will hold public hearings. Here is what will happen

The Commission of Inquiry looking at the Tasmanian government's responses to child sexual abuse in state institutions will hold two weeks of public hearings, starting in Hobart on Monday.

ABC News

Adam Kneale was like any footy-loving boy of the 80s until a trip to Footscray’s Western Oval turned his innocent life into a nightmare

When Adam Kneale was offered a chance to help out around the Footscray Football Club as an 11-year-old, he thought he was realising every kids' dream. Instead, he faced unimaginable trauma. WARNING: This story contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse.

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Aid group reports surging numbers in child abuse in Pakistan

An aid group dedicated to child protection says assaults and sexual abuse of children have surged in Pakistan

The Independent UK

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Dutch football pundit’s sexual abuse story on live TV sparks national outcry

Former player Johan Derksen appeared to make comments about historic drunken assault to amusement of presenter

The Guardian - UK

Pope mandates annual audit on protection of children from abuse

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Reuters

Former GP and brother of Tasmania's A-G speaks out over child sexual abuse and groaning in parliament incident

Former GP Paul Nylander was not aware he had a problem until he was aged in his mid-40s, but it was then that the sexual abuse he experienced as a child started to take its toll — and recent behaviour in parliament involving his sister has prompted him to share…

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Gabonese FA president charged in connection with investigation into alleged sexual abuse

Pierre-Alain Mounguengui has been charged in connection with the investigation into allegations of widespread sexual abuse in Gabon

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Paedo Lanarkshire teacher molested young boys while employed at two different primary schools

Jurors took just over an hour to find her Carol Ann White, 39, guilty of sexual abuse following a seven-day trial at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

Daily Record

Prince Andrew stripped of Freedom of the City of York after sex abuse case settlement

Now councillors call for prince to give up Duke of York title

The Independent UK

I spent three years in a paedophile hunting team – here's what I learned

By the time you finish reading this article, at least one new case of child sexual abuse will have been reported. In the US, a child is sexually assaulted every nine minutes. In the UK, this figure is closer to one every seven minutes. The sexual abuse of children is…

The Conversation

Children between three and six ‘victims of self-generated child sexual abuse’

The Internet Watch Foundation said it is the first time it has seen such young children subjected to this kind of abuse

The Guardian - UK

Bradley Wiggins alleges he was sexually groomed by a coach when he was about 13: expert explains safeguarding in sport and what more needs to be done

Former professional cyclist Sir Bradley Wiggins, a Tour de France winner and multiple Olympic gold medallist, has told Men’s Health magazine that he was sexually groomed by a coach when he was around 13 years old.

The Conversation

Teacher charged with historical sex abuse

A Victorian teacher has faced court charged with 26 offences relating to the sexual abuse of a child under 16 more than two decades ago.

AAP

Former child migrant lifts lid on UK’s ‘biggest sex abuse scandal’

Gordon Brown had called child migration ‘government-induced (human) trafficking’ which was a ‘bigger sex scandal’ than Jimmy Savile.

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Daily Mirror

Netflix fans have ‘chills’ after first look at South Korean chatroom sex abuse documentary

Netflix has released a first look trailer for its stomach-turning documentary Cyber Hell: Exposing an Internet Horror, exploring a horror sexual abuse ring that shook South Korea

The Guardian - UK

One in five older children in Philippines suffer online sexual abuse, study says

Research into 12- to 17-year-olds adds to concerns that Covid has left them more vulnerable in their country

Tribune News Service

Broadway review: Sex abuse drama ‘How I Learned to Drive’ is as unsettling now as it was when it broke ground 25 years ago

NEW YORK — When Paula Vogel’s “How I Learned to Drive” opened in 1997 with Mary-Louise Parker in the lead role, the depiction of sexual abuse on stage was close to nonexistent. This long running off-Broadway play, which charts the systematic abuse of a young woman by her uncle, explained,…

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West Lothian mum 'heartbroken' as teen daughter takes own life over father's abuse

Megan Reid, from Livingston, was just 17 when tragically took her own life after suffering longstanding sexual abuse from her father, Joseph McGinn, who was jailed in 2019.

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Can we separate the art from the artist? Sexual abuse allegations against Nagarjun revive the old debate

In a November 2018 piece for New Statesman, writer Eleanor Margolis wondered whether she would read Roald Dahl’s fiction to her children. Dahl, considered one of the most influential children’s fiction writers of the 20th century, had made antisemitic remarks and was seen to have justified the Holocaust. Despite her…

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