sexual abuse

Commentary There are now nearly 90,000 men who say they were sexually violated as young boys while participating in Boy Scouts of America programs. The absolute shame of it comes ...

BERLIN (AP)—A thousand police officers in Germany raided the homes of 50 people as part of a nationwide ...

Australia's Perth Police are advancing the fight against child sexual exploitation with the disbanding of a pedophile ring ...

Rape and sexual assault survivors in Victoria, Australia, want the law changed so they can speak publicly about ...

NEW YORK—A U.S. judge rejected Ghislaine Maxwell's request to be moved into the general population at the Brooklyn ...

The former president of a Boston police union is being held on $100,000 cash bail over allegations he ...

Commentary The April 7 acquittal on appeal by the highest court in Australia of George Cardinal Pell on ...

One of the largest youth organizations in the United States on Feb. 18 filed for bankruptcy, according to ...

NEW YORK—An increasing number of U.S. states are giving childhood victims of sexual abuse more time to decide ...

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 ...