The Latest Breaking News from sexual assault

Victims don’t report because the legal system is stacked against them. It protects perpetrators and further traumatises victims

Few alleged offenders are found guilty. Many victims are retraumatised. What is getting in the way of the Australian criminal courts providing justice to sexual assault survivors?

The ‘American Gods’ author has denied accusations of ‘non-consensual sexual activity’ from multiple women

The Rt Rev Dr John Perumbalath said he has ‘consistently denied’ the sexual assault and harassment claims.

Heroic hotel housekeepers in Dothan, Alabama, saved a child from an attempted kidnapping and sexual assault, leading to the arrest of suspect Stephen Spencer Ayers, police said.

John Perumbalath denies allegations by two women from 2023, saying police investigated and took no further action

One woman accused the Rt Rev Dr John Perumbalath of kissing her without consent and groping her and another woman accused him of sexual harassment - allegations he says he has consistently denied

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo movement told AFP in the wake of the scandal surrounding celebrity Masahiro Nakai and Fuji TV. Former boy band star Nakai was accused in a tabloid last month of sexually assaulting…

One of Neil Gaiman’s publishers has dropped him as the British author faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment