The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

PITTSBURGH — The NHL’s investigation into anonymous sexual abuse and grooming accusations against Lightning defenseman Ian Cole "found no evidence to substantiate the allegations,” the league announced Saturday in a news release.

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Last week, Columbia University and its affiliated hospitals announced a $165 million settlement to 147 patients who accused a male gynecologist of sexual abuse. The recent settlement follows an agreement last year awarding $71.5 million to 79 other patients for misconduct by the same doctor. The physician, Robert Hadden, pleaded…

"It was really scary, and it's something that I really had blocked out for many years."

Observers welcome move as good step after months of pressure, but say more action needed to tackle violence.

A commission investigating child sex abuse in the Portuguese Catholic Church said on Tuesday it has already gathered more than 400 testimonies of alleged victims but admitted the number of actual cases was "much higher".

The new city centre hub means families can come in for face-to-face support as they use services such as ones helping them recover from domestic or sexual abuse

The Lightning have suspended defenseman Ian Cole pending the results of a league investigation into accusations of sexual abuse.

US actor Anthony Rapp told a New York courtroom Friday that he froze up when he was allegedly assaulted by Kevin Spacey as a minor in 1986, on the second day of the disgraced Oscar winner's trial over the accusation. Spacey, 63, has disappeared from public view after becoming one…