The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

A plea deal 'buried' the abuse at a Mexican megachurch. A new doc hopes to unearth it

LOS ANGELES — If you live in Los Angeles, you've probably sped past La Luz del Mundo church, an ornate, 9,600-square foot outpost of the Mexico-based evangelical megachurch hard by the 60 Freeway in East Los Angeles. Founded in 1926, the Christian denomination claims to have more than 5 million…

Los Angeles Times · Dec 8, 2022

Bill Cosby sued by five women for sexual abuse, assault and battery under New York Adult Survivors Act

Lawsuit was filed in New York under the state’s one-year window for adults to make sexual abuse complaints

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

Jesuit priests demand transparency in Vatican's artist case

One of the Vatican’s leading Jesuit advisers on preventing clergy sexual abuse is calling for church authorities to shed more light on the case of a famous Jesuit artist who was accused of spiritually abusing women during confession

The Independent UK · Dec 7, 2022

German 'babysitter' on trial in huge child sexual abuse case

A 45-year-old German man who had offered babysitting services online has gone on trial in the western city of Cologne accused of almost 100 counts of child sexual abuse

The Independent UK · Dec 6, 2022

Court hears Houston not told to stay quiet

A witness in the case against Hillsong founder Brian Houston says he never told him not to disclose his father Frank Houston's abuse of a young boy to police.

AAP · Dec 5, 2022

Gardai fear suspected Monaghan 'bloodbath killer' may take murder secret to the grave

The scene was so bloody that it was initially suspected Mooney – who served jail time for the repeated sexual abuse of a boy almost 20 years ago – had been stabbed. But it is now understood he was beaten to death with a weapon.

Irish Mirror · Dec 5, 2022

Hillsong’s Brian Houston allegedly told victim who had been raped by his father ‘it’s your fault’

Pentecostal church founder denies the comment and has pleaded not guilty to concealing sexual abuse by his father Frank, who confessed to police in 1999

The Guardian - AU · Dec 5, 2022

Hillsong founder Brian Houston accused of sex abuse cover-up

Hillsong founder Brian Houston was not the only person who failed to report his father's sexual abuse of a child, his lawyer has told a court.

The New Daily · Dec 5, 2022

Hillsong founder accused of abuse cover-up

Many people knew about Frank Houston's sexual abuse of a child and failed to report it to police, Hillsong founder Brian Houston's lawyer has told a NSW court.

AAP · Dec 5, 2022

Shania Twain recalls ‘flattening my boobs’ to avoid sexual abuse from her stepdad

‘You didn’t want to be a girl in my house,’ recalls Twain

The Independent UK · Dec 4, 2022