A once “deeply respected” Buddhist leader has been jailed for the sick sexual abuse of six young girls he met through temples where he was serving.

The alleged sexual assaults by the prominent Sydney Indigenous leader occurred when Yvonne Weldon was 15 years old.

Uber has settled an upcoming sexual assault bellwether trial. People who have brought cases have won the last two federal trials.

Mick Mundine, chief executive of the Aboriginal Housing Company, has been arrested over allegations of historical child sexual offences involving a 15-year-old girl.

CONTENT WARNING: This article refers to alleged child abuse. Former ACT Attorney-General Gordon Ramsay has confirmed he will fight his…

People have threatened to harm the woman identified as Jane Doe in the Cornell University case unless she withdraws her lawsuit, her lawyer says.

Exclusive: Average of nearly five sexual crimes a day against under-13s were reported to police between 2021 and 2025

Ten years after full extent of problem was revealed, Guardian investigation finds schools facing uphill battle amid rapid societal changes

Summaries obtained by The New York Times offer a detailed look at the discipline meted out to the men accused of sexually assaulting a fellow student at Cornell University.

Law gives prosecutors new sentencing option for crimes against children under 12

The 49-year-old was found guilty of two charges of lewd and libidinous behaviour towards a girl and a boy between 1993 and 2010.

For months, Alice did not know what the man charged with secretly filming her in a shower cubicle looked like, or even his name.

NSW music festival laws explained: strip searches, drug checking services, police powers, legal rights, and harm reduction.

French survivors of clergy sexual abuse said Pope Leo XIV listened to them with unusual depth and acknowledged the systemic nature of abuse within the Catholic Church during a private meeting Sunday, but stressed that the encounter must be followed by concrete action.

Pontiff also uses visit to Catholic shrine at Lourdes to criticise assisted dying as ‘false compassion’

Pope Leo spoke to bishops before leading a service attended by thousands of worshippers in France.

A Central Coast man was sentenced to six years' imprisonment by the Gosford District Court today (25 September, 2026) for watching live online child sexual abuse, with further police inquiries resulting in three children being removed from harm in the Philippines. **Images available**

For decades, public inquiries have exposed strikingly similar patterns of child sexual abuse. Yet each new crime is treated as though nobody could have seen it coming.

BBC Eye has discovered a teacher who was imprisoned for sexually assaulting a student in Indonesia has been secretly released early.

The experiences of the victims and survivors featured in the BBC Panorama programme are deeply distressing. The abuse they suffered was completely unacceptable, and our thoughts remain with all those affected. The programme examined historical cases of child sexual exploitation in Oxford, including those connected to Operation Bullfinch.A Serio...

The women tell BBC Panorama they believe hundreds of perpetrators are still living freely in their community

In Muslim-majority Pakistan, 71% of victims did not tell anyone because of stigma, shame and fear, according to a UNICEF report.

Officials concede the National Redress Scheme may need years longer to clear its backlog.

Youth justice cannot simply respond to what a child has done; we need to ask what has happened in that child’s life, what opportunities for intervention were missed and what support is now needed.

A new CBC Podcast tells how Vienna Luke, the victim of a historic sexual assault, went undercover as an RCMP agent to record a confession from the family member who assaulted her years earlier.

Google said on Monday it has agreed to report content flagged as child sexual abuse material to Indian authorities, breaking from ​a global practice under which such reports are first routed through ‌a U.S. non-profit.

A lawsuit seeks to create a program ​to notify people pictured in Jeffrey Epstein's ‘modelling book’ and order his estate to pay class action ​members.

A new book by a Wheatbelt author shines a spotlight on the abuse endured by WA's child migrants at the hands of the Christian Brothers and others. 

Former Paris Mayor ​Anne Hidalgo said on Tuesday "collective failure" at institutions had opened the door to ‌a wave of child abuse at state nurseries and primary schools in the French capital over more than a decade.

MANILA – Online gaming platform Roblox is open to appointing a representative in the Philippines who can directly receive subpoenas and other lawful government orders, a setup being proposed in the Senate to speed up action in cases involving online child abuse and grooming. Senator Risa…

A coked-up Brisbane real estate agent caught with a stash of horrific child abuse material gave one of the most ridiculous excuses for the vile behaviour police are ever likely to hear - his own name.

Siranudh Scott, an heir to Thailand’s Singha beer empire, has prompted a rare public reckoning about a topic considered taboo.

Four Corners investigates Christian Brothers' handling of abuse claims, compensation disputes, asset transfers and survivor litigation.

New federal law closes a longstanding gap: offenders can no longer shield assets in superannuation from child abuse compensation orders. Here's what changed.

Tech platforms need to be responsible for reporting online child sexual exploitation rather than relying on victims to do so.

A row over diplomatic immunity has broken out after the return of the official who was allegedly sent abusive material

The BBC said that the staffer, who was flown back to the US on a commercial flight, has diplomatic protections despite not being a diplomat.

An investigation by The New York Times and a separate review by the Canadian Centre for Child Protection have found child sexual abuse material on X, including previously flagged images. The findings also show that Grok generated sexualised images of children before X introduced tighter restrictions...

Sandusky, 82, serving a term of at least 30 years, was convicted after multiple men testified he sexually abused them when they were boys.

Roblox is fighting to keep lawsuits out of court, arguing that the children agreed to arbitrate all claims against the company when they set up their accounts.

Now the UK government plans to introduce new legislation that would see companies face fines and potential criminal liability, and signaled similar plans could extend to Snapchat and Instagram.