The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

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Peak rights group for older Australians demands urgent change after 530 incidents of sexual abuse reported in last quarter of 2021

Jamie Mitchell is taking the sport's governing body to court over allegations he was abused by a member of the team's staff during a 1985 under-19 tour of India and Sri Lanka.

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Under a reparations program for victims of sexual abuse launched in 2018, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid $78.5 million on 438 claims — far less than the $126 million estimated two years ago, according to a final report released Thursday.

A survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of former junior cricket coach Ian King sues Cricket Australia and Cricket ACT over the ongoing fallout of the ordeal.

In most states, if a court issues a gag order and you don't appeal it, you can go to jail for violating it even if you later argue that it violates your First Amendment rights.

“The rot runs deep in this institution.”

Upper Providence Township, Pennsylvania, police have charged Bruce Stanley Garner, a former school bus driver for the Marple Newtown School District, with 139 counts each of invasion of privacy, unlawful contact with a minor, criminal use of communication facility, and sexual abuse of children. He also faces one count each…

A female school cleaner in Tasmania has been jailed for one year for the persistent sexual abuse of a 13-year-old boy over about four months.

A female cleaner at a Tasmanian school who sexually abused a 13-year-old male student is imprisoned for at least six months, with the family angry over what they say is an "absolutely disgraceful" outcome.