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Southern Baptist Convention vows to make public database of pastors charged with sex abuse

Just days after an independent investigation revealed a list of 700 volunteers, ministers and pastors known to be “credibly accused” of sexual abuse, the Southern Baptist Convention ushered in a series of reforms meant to ensure public oversight over the nation’s largest Protestant denomination continues.

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Not a 'relationship': why the legal language of child abuse needs to change

The ACT government has announced plans to change the name of the criminal offence of engaging in a “sexual relationship with child or young person under special care” to “persistent sexual abuse of child or young person under special care”.

The Conversation

The Mancunian Way: 'No excuses' for failure to protect sexually exploited children in Oldham

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East Lothian former company boss found with images of children as young as two

Sheriff Kenneth Maciver told Holman: “What you are viewing is the sexual abuse of children. How anyone can gain satisfaction from that is beyond most people’s understanding.”

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Bill Cosby Civil Trial Jury Must Start Deliberations Over

After two days of deliberations in which they reached verdicts on nearly all of the questions put before them, jurors in a civil trial who were deciding on sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby will have to start from scratch on Monday. By the end of the court day Friday,…

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Sexual assaults, racism and suicide attempts — life at the hands of Australia's child protection system

More than 700 people from around the country have come forward with concerns about Australia's failing child protection system. These are their shocking claims.

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A.P. High Court panel takes suo moto notice of NGO home sexual abuse case

Committee directs officials to submit details of the case today

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Bill Cosby Civil Trial Jury Must Start Deliberations Over

Asharq Al-Awsat

Bill Cosby civil trial jury must start deliberations over

After two days of deliberations, jurors in a civil trial deciding on sexual abuse allegations against Bill Cosby will have to start from scratch on Monday

The Independent UK

Tasmanian child safety head 'not confident' children in out-of-home care are safe from abuse

Children in out-of-home care in Tasmania today are not safe from abuse, Communities Department head Michael Pervan tells the state's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry.

ABC News

NSW women's health centres push for sexual assault, domestic violence funding in state budget

Service providers say they desperately need more funding in the upcoming NSW budget, with soaring costs, inflation, and client numbers leaving women waiting months for counselling.

ABC News

'Hog-tied, belittled' in Tas youth centre

A former detainee at Tasmania's troubled Ashley Youth Detention Centre says he was searched naked, hog-tied and constantly belittled by staff at the facility.

AAP

Azra Beach was sexually abused in her foster home and government workers did nothing, commission hears

Azra Beach's earliest memories are not happy ones — she was sexually abused by a member of her foster family. And the state government department responsible for child safety did nothing, she tells the commission of inquiry.

ABC News

Tasmanian foster carer 'broke girl's arm'

A woman who was sexually and physically abused while in Tasmania's foster care system says she is still waiting for an apology from the state government.

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The Independent UK

New SBC President commits to move sex abuse reforms forward

Bart Barber, the newly elected president of the Southern Baptist Convention, is vowing to expedite sex abuse reforms in the nation’s largest Protestant denomination

The Guardian - US

‘It’s such a horrible thing’: devastating film examines sexual abuse in the Boy Scouts

In Leave No Trace, survivors speak about what they endured under the Boy Scouts of America, leading to the biggest sexual abuse settlement in history

Los Angeles Times

Southern Baptist Convention in Anaheim approves resolutions designed to fight sex abuse

ANAHEIM, Calif. — More than 8,000 members of the Southern Baptist Convention on Tuesday voted overwhelmingly to take action to stem a sexual abuse scandal that has stunned members and caused rifts within the largest Protestant denomination in America.

AAP

Assault evidence limited, Tas inquiry told

An inquiry examining sexual abuse in Tasmania's public institutions has been told evidence gathered about a child-on-child assault is limited.

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Aboriginal children over-represented in out-of-home care and community ignored, abuse inquiry hears

Teenagers at risk of homelessness are allowed by Tasmania's child protection service to live in unsafe environments, the state's child sexual abuse commission of inquiry hears.

Los Angeles Times

Editorial: Bail’s purpose is freedom, not jail

Megachurch leader Naasón Joaquín García was sentenced last week to nearly 17 years in state prison after pleading guilty to child sexual abuse, putting an end to a case that in its early days made headlines for the astonishingly high $50 million bail amount set by the court.

Axios

Southern Baptist Convention passes 2 reforms on sexual abuse

The reforms passed include a "mechanism to track credible accusations against ministers and pastors."

The Conversation

EU law would require Big Tech to do more to combat child sexual abuse, but a key question remains: How?

The European Commission recently proposed regulations to protect children by requiring tech companies to scan the content in their systems for child sexual abuse material. This is an extraordinarily wide-reaching and ambitious effort that would have broad implications beyond the European Union’s borders, including in the U.S.

The Conversation

Patriarchy and purity culture combine to silence women in the Southern Baptist Convention – and are blocking efforts to address the sexual abuse scandal

A devastating yearlong investigation into the executive committee of the largest conservative evangelical denomination in the U.S., the Southern Baptist Convention, has documented widespread claims of sex abuse including accusations of rape, cover-ups and gross mistreatment of women seeking justice.

The Independent UK

‘You feel shame’: Patrice Evra opens up about sexual abuse as he joins ‘end violence’ campaign

Evra revealed that ‘shame’ caused him to lie to the police when they enquired about his abuser later in life

ABC News

Tasmania's Commission of Inquiry hears of alleged abuse in foster care by man accused of underage sex

A witness tells Tasmania's child sexual abuse inquiry she and her sibling were left at a foster home where an alleged child abuser was living, as figures show the out-of-home-care system receives one report of abuse every week.

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