The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Paedophile hid hundreds of child abuse images on iPod

Timothy Byrnes collected more than 600 sickening images on the device

Liverpool Echo · Aug 1, 2022

Child sexual abuse survivors struggle for justice as small sporting organisations are slow to sign up to National Redress Scheme

Karen says she was groomed by a coach when she was a teenager. But when she went to Softball Australia seeking redress, she was told they "didn't have insurance for that".

ABC News · Jul 31, 2022

Survivor TV star and former SAS commander Mark Wales opens up about childhood sexual abuse

Mark Wales describes reporting the childhood sexual abuse he and his brother suffered as the hardest thing he has ever had to do, taking more courage than walking through minefields in the Middle East.

ABC News · Jul 30, 2022

Canada says pope's apology to Indigenous not enough

The Canadian government says Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses they suffered in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2022

Man who was shot by wife in DC and accused of sexual abuse while working at day care is facing 13 charges

BALTIMORE — A man who was shot at a Washington, D.C., hotel by his wife, who accused him of molesting children at her Owings Mills day care center, now faces more than a dozen criminal charges.

Tribune News Service · Jul 27, 2022

Edinburgh BBC presenter Nicky Campbell tells of sexual abuse at private school

Making the announcement on his BBC podcast, released on Wednesday, he also speaks with journalist Alex Renton on the endemic abuse in Britain's public schools. Nicky said the abuse began when he was aged just ten, and has a long-lasting impact on his adult life

Edinburgh Live · Jul 27, 2022

‘I was not being loved. I was just a body’: Mena Suvari on surviving sexual abuse, acting and American Beauty

The model and actor’s shocking memoir tells how shame and denial prevented her from telling anyone she was raped when she was 12, which led to another abusive relationship – with an older man – and years of drug addiction

The Guardian - UK · Jul 27, 2022

Location of Iranian actor Nazanin Bahrami ‘not known after she is detained’

‘Many Iranian women in various industries have been facing sexual abuse by people connected to the regime. These women are often intimidated into silence,’ says Iranian women’s rights activist

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2022

Canada asks France to extradite accused priest -French diplomatic source

France has received a request from Canada to extradite retired Roman Catholic priest Johannes Rivoire so he can face a charge of sexual abuse from when he worked in Canada's North, a French diplomatic source said.

Reuters · Jul 26, 2022

'Depraved' former teacher had 60,000 child abuse images on his computer

Glyndwr Willis, also known as George Williams, collected an "utterly depraved" trove of images of child sexual abuse

Liverpool Echo · Jul 26, 2022