Sexual Abuse

Kevin Booth, a sadistic abuser who tortured women in a Highland dungeon, has become the first person in the UK to receive a global travel ban to prevent further exploitation.

Iraq's parliament ammended a law protecting girls against child marriage, now allowing brides as young as 9 years old.

An investigation has revealed numerous Telegram groupchats discussing how to rape and drug women, exchanging pictures and live footage of their exploits.

The lawsuit filed by his sister, Ann Altman, alleged that Sam sexually abused his sister during their childhood years between 1997 and 2006.

The abuse is believed to have started in 2011, just two years after the couple relocated from Paris to Mazan, a small town near Avignon in southern France.

After addressing his own childhood traumas, Jeremy Indika launched Something to Say, a leading platform that advocates for the end of child sexual abuse.

Retail employees have called on the government to implement tougher measures against attackers after theft and abuse incidents have increased by 50 per cent.

The Internet Watch Foundation reported the identification of self-generated child sexual abuse material involving children under 10 on over 100,000 web pages.

The claims were made by one of his victims in an email to a columnist in 2016.

The allegations came to light after the former employee filed a lawsuit against Tradeshift's ex-CEO Christian Lanng.

The World Bank's failure to act on early warnings and reports of sexual abuse has perpetuated a culture of impunity.

While humanitarian support is huge, researchers have found that one-fifth of one per cent of the aid funds was spent on reducing gender-based violence.

Tech companies could be charged 10 per cent of their revenue if they don't take action to protect children against online abuse as per the Online Safety Act, the world's first legal duty against social media platforms.

A study from the University of York disclosed that sexual harassment victims in the UK's entertainment industry are still in distress after speaking out.

A case has been registered against the accused, and he has been sent to jail on a seven-day physical remand.

A recent study from King's College London has suggested that the way childhood abuse and/or neglect is processed affects mental health more than the experience.

The alarming statistics have triggered a wider discussion among healthcare professionals and policymakers.

Singer Marilyn Manson has been accused of grooming and sexually assaulting an underage girl "multiple times in the 1990s."

A 31-year-old man has been jailed for 10 years for killing his father in a frenzied knife attack.

The former girlfriend of Met Police officer David Carrick has claimed that he would abuse her if she refused to engage in "weird, crazy" sex with him.

More than 1,000 Metropolitan Police officers and staff have been accused of being involved in sexual and domestic abuse.

A 34-year-old UK man has been sentenced to spend five years in jail for sexually abusing animals and sharing videos of the abuse online.

A lawsuit filed in San Francisco on Tuesday accuses online gaming firm Roblox Corp of enabling a California girl's sexual and financial exploitation by adult men.

Necrophile David Fuller has been charged with 16 further sexual offences.

The investigation began after a 2021 report by The Athletic about abusive behavior and sexual misconduct by former Portland Thorns manager Paul Riley.

A man in Kazakhstan has been forcibly castrated for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter over a period of three years.

A court in Russia has sentenced a paedophile to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy and holding him hostage for 52 days.

William Goler, the head of an incest clan living in an isolated part of Canada, allowed his family members to have sex with the children.

An independent review of reports of sexual exploitation in Oldham has revealed that the police and other concerned agencies failed to do their job

The German carmaker is facing legal action in Brazil over allegations of rampant human-rights violations at a large farm it ran in the Amazon rainforest basin in the 1970s and '80s