The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Professor Alexis Jay has previously said progress on fulfilling her IICSA recommendations must be quicker.

The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.K. and Zimbabwe before fleeing to South Africa, where he died in 2018

Maryland’s Supreme Court has upheld the constitutionality of a 2023 law that ended the state’s statute of limitations for child sexual abuse lawsuits following a report that exposed widespread wrongdoing within the Archdiocese of Baltimore

Ohio man Conner Walker was sentenced to 35 years in federal prison for sexually assaulting a toddler at a Parma Heights daycare, recording the abuse, and distributing child sexual abuse materials online.

A French court has convicted French film director Christophe Ruggia of sexually abusing actress Adèle Haenel when she was underage. He will avoid prison as the court sentenced him to a two-year suspended term and two years under house arrest.Ruggia was also ordered to pay €15,000 to Haenel.

UK will make it a crime to possess, create or distribute AI tools that generate sexual content targeting children.

The Home Office said fake images are being used to blackmail children and force them to livestream further abuse.

UK to be first country to make owning artificial intelligence tools designed to make images of child sexual abuse illegal

UK will be first country to bring in tough new laws to tackle the technology behind the creation of abusive material