The Latest Breaking News from Sexual Abuse

’Thrives on creating fear’: Inquiry hears online child sexual abuse rates are soaring

Online child sex abuse rates are booming across Australia, prompting calls to focus on pre-emptive measures to curb the rise. 

The New Daily · Nov 15, 2022

Sexual abuse survivors launch national day to encourage others to speak up

Grace Tame's Australian of the Year award seemed like the country was finally acknowledging survivors, says Tiffany Skeggs. Now, there is a national day, in part to help encourage more people to speak up.

ABC News · Nov 14, 2022

Killer who murdered schoolgirl to hide his sexual abuse dies without body being found

Neo-Nazi Robert Ewing – who a judge described as ‘evil incarnate’ when sentencing him to life in prison – refused to tell police where he and accomplice Gareth Dewhurst disposed of Paige Chivers' body

Daily Mirror · Nov 11, 2022

In victory for Dershowitz, Epstein victim says: I ‘may have made a mistake’ in accusing him

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s most prominent sexual abuse victims, Virginia Giuffre, has settled a bitterly fought defamation lawsuit with famed defense attorney Alan Dershowitz.

Miami Herald · Nov 8, 2022

More funds for National Redress Scheme

The National Redress Scheme for victim-survivours of institutional child sexual abuse has been getting an average of 776 applications a month since March.

AAP · Nov 8, 2022

Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre says she was wrong to accuse Alan Dershowitz of sexual abuse

Ms Giuffre said in a statement that she genuinely believed the claim, but that she was in a stressful and traumatic environment

The Independent UK · Nov 8, 2022

French Catholic Church in upheaval following sexual abuse revelations

France's Catholic Church has revealed that 11 former or serving bishops have been accused of sexual violence or failing to report cases of abuse. Among them, a cardinal who confessed to assaulting a girl in the 1980s and who now faces an inquiry by prosecutors in Marseille.

Radio France Internationale · Nov 8, 2022

Survivors and families welcome Tasmanian apology to child sexual abuse victims, but demand actions follow words

Zoe Duncan did not get to hear the apology to child sexual abuse victims in Tasmania on Tuesday. Instead, her family carried her photo and heard words which, while welcomed, will "mean nothing without action".

ABC News · Nov 8, 2022

Child sexual abuse survivors receive formal apology from Tasmanian government in parliament

Premier Jeremy Rockliff and others have delivered a historic apology from Tasmania's parliament to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions, almost two years to the day since the government announced an investigation into the allegations.

ABC News · Nov 8, 2022

Tas premier says sorry to abuse survivors

Tasmania's premier has delivered a formal apology to victim-survivors of child sexual abuse in state institutions after harrowing evidence at an inquiry.

AAP · Nov 7, 2022