The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

Deepfake Porn: Could You Be Next? is Jess Davies' second documentary with the BBC

After several police complaints, a family’s months-long ordeal, and intervention by the country’s top human rights panel, three priests have finally been booked in a case filed in Pune under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act. The main accused remains absconding while two prominent priests have been accused…

Kevin Spacey on Thursday defeated a sexual abuse case against him after jurors in a Manhattan civil trial found his accuser didn’t prove his claim that the Oscar winner made an unwanted sexual advance on him when he was 14.

Editorial: The findings of a seven and a half year process must lead to rapid action. The price of past mistakes has been huge suffering

Lawyers criticise ‘loopholes’ in call for mandatory reporting in England and Wales

For seven years, a UK inquiry has examined child sexual abuse. The results should shame us into action, says Guardian columnist Zoe Williams

‘Centrepiece’ finding is failure by person in position of trust to report abuse allegations should be criminal offence

The inquiry published its overarching report on Thursday.

Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse also recommends online media companies must screen content for child abuse before making images accessible to the public