sexual abuse

NEW YORK—An increasing number of U.S. states are giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide if they want to file lawsuits, part of a growing trend to ...

Homegrown American singer, record producer, and former professional basketballer R. Kelly demanded to be granted bail based on health and family ...

Idaho must pay for an inmate's gender reassignment surgery, a federal court ruled on Aug. 23. Mason Dean ...

MELBOURNE, Australia—An Australian court by a 2-1 majority ruling Wednesday upheld convictions against Cardinal George Pell, the most ...

There are growing fears a disturbing physical attack on a disabled Illinois teenager may have included sexual assault, ...

Christine Pelosi—daughter of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi—wrote on Twitter that she believes high profile figures on both the ...

A 19-year-old Bangladeshi girl has died after being doused in kerosene and set alight by four burka-clad assailants ...

A 17-year-old female high school student in China has publicly accused her art teacher of not only physical ...

CHICAGO—R. Kelly, the R&B star who has been trailed for decades by allegations that he violated underage girls ...

NEWARK, N.J.—New Jersey’s five Roman Catholic dioceses listed more than 180 priests on Feb. 13, who have been ...

A woman was drugged and raped by a man who posed as a doctor by obtaining false medical ...

The family of Michael Jackson have issued a statement in response to sexual abuse allegations in the documentary "Leaving ...

LONDON—Detectives in the United Kingdom have arrested 55 men over historical allegations of child sexual abuse. All the ...

The names of at least 500 priests accused of sexual abuse of minors in Illinois were withheld by ...

A former Disney star has publicly alleged that an unnamed older man who was involved in her career took ...

Australia’s peak body for the aid sector, the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID), sent out a public ...

North Korean officials commit sexual abuse against women with little concern for consequences, according to a report from ...

An 86-year-old man who raped two children when they were aged between four and 10, more than 60 ...

Allegations of sexual abuse have surfaced against Roman Catholic clergy in the Diocese of Lincoln in Nebraska, the ...

Pope Francis on Aug. 26 said he "will not say a single word" about claims made by a ...

An ex-Vatican ambassador to the United States claims that Pope Francis was aware of allegations of sexual abuse ...

NEW YORK—A former director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was arrested and charged ...

DUBLIN—Pope Francis arrives Aug. 25 in Ireland, ground zero of the Catholic Church's sex abuse crisis, with the ...

A Roman Catholic priest from Pennsylvania has been accused of inappropriately touching a 17-year-old girl and sending her nude ...

Disgraced USA Gymnastics ex-team doctor Larry Nassar has been removed from a federal prison where he has been ...

DUBLIN—The Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, withdrew on Aug. 18 from next week's World Meeting of Families ...

The Vatican on Aug. 16 broke its silence and responded for the first time on the Pennsylvania grand ...