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Calls for changes to New Zealand law after rapist claims sex with 12-year-old ‘consensual’

Consent is still a legal defence to those charged with rape in New Zealand, even if the alleged victim was a child at the time

The Guardian - AU

Church says choirboy's father cannot sue

Lawyers for the Catholic Church have claimed an ex-choirboy's father cannot sue as he was not the primary victim of Cardinal George Pell's alleged sexual abuse.

AAP

Israel's Herzog calls for investigation of alleged sex abuse of prison guards

Israeli President Isaac Herzog called on Tuesday for an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse of female guards by prisoners at a maximum security prison with the encouragement of their superiors.

Reuters

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Australian swim coach Dick Caine faces more historical sexual abuse charges

Former Australian swim coach Dick Caine is facing fresh sexual assault charges after four more alleged victims came forward to police.

ABC News

More sex abuse charges for swim coach

More charges have been laid as part of ongoing investigations into alleged historical sexual abuse by former Sydney swim coach Dick Caine.

AAP

Paedophile hid hundreds of child abuse images on iPod

Timothy Byrnes collected more than 600 sickening images on the device

Liverpool Echo

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".

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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

Boy Scouts must change $2.7 billion sex abuse fund, judge rules

The Boy Scouts of America must adjust their plan to create the biggest sexual abuse compensation fund in the U.S. in order to win final court approval for the $2.7 billion proposal, a judge ruled.

Tribune News Service

Privacy watchdogs criticise proposed EU online child pornography rules

The European Union's privacy watchdogs on Friday criticised proposed rules to combat online child sexual abuse, saying their potential impact on individuals' privacy and personal data posed risks for fundamental rights and could harm the children they aim to protect.

Reuters

The pope's apology to Indigenous people doesn't go far enough, Canada says

The pope apologized to Indigenous peoples for abuses in church-run residential schools. Canada's response suggests that reconciliation over the fraught history is still a work in progress.

WEKU

Canada says pope's apology for abuses at Catholic residential schools not enough

The Canadian government made clear Wednesday that Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses in the country’s church-run residential schools didn't go far enough, suggesting that reconciliation over the fraught history is still very much a work in progress.

France 24

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

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.

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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

The Guardian - UK

‘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 Independent UK

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

Reuters

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.

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Liverpool Echo

'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

Irish Mirror

'Stepdad from hell' named and shamed after abusing children from two separate marriages

Paedophile Michael Moloney, who was jailed for the rape and abuse of his other stepdaughter Jenni in 2018, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual abuse against Chloe in 2002 and 2004

The Hindu

Woman stages protest in front of Oommen Chandy’s house in Kottayam

Woman, who lodged a sexual abuse charge against former Minister Jose Thettayil, says Chandy brokered a deal

The Guardian - AU

100,000 happy pictures: a new tool in the cyber ‘arms race’ against child sexual abusers

The volume of child sexual assault material online is on the rise. An Australian project is crowdsourcing images of safe children so it can find those in danger

Reuters

Canada's Inuit seek Pope's help to return accused priest from France

Canada's Inuit people will press Pope Francis to help return a retired Roman Catholic priest accused of sexual abuse to face charges in Canada, a former political leader in the country's North said.

Los Angeles Times

La Luz del Mundo dissidents pressure authorities, seek more charges against 'apostle'

LOS ANGELES — Holding her sons tight, Deborah Contreras shuddered with sobs as the women in a Los Angeles courtroom recounted years of sexual abuse inflicted by the man they once believed was an "apostle" of Jesus Christ.

The Independent UK

R. Kelly's manager faces trial over theater-emptying threat

The trial of R. Kelly’s manager has opened on charges that he forced the cancellation of a screening of a documentary about the singer’s sexual abuse of women and girls by calling in a threat to the crowded Manhattan theater

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