New data sheds light on the besieged sector, revealing the number of serious incidents in NSW childcare centres continued to increase year-on-year.

Federal judges have dismissed three lawsuits accusing British author Neil Gaiman of sexually assaulting his children's nanny in New Zealand

Eight major platforms are failing in their duty to detect and prevent child sexual exploitation and abuse, according to the Australian internet watchdog’s latest transparency report.

The government puts popular social gaming site Roblox on notice following media reports of children being approached and groomed by predators on the platform.

The country’s highest court has overturned a precedent that barred abuse victims from suing churches over crimes committed by people it did not formally employ.

RNZ earlier revealed Fr Rowan Donoghue admitted six charges including indecent assault on a boy aged 12-16.

The 60-year-old was found dead at his Leichhardt unit in Sydney's inner west on Monday evening, NSW Police said in a statement.

he High Court has allowed AA's appeal in [2026] HCA 2, finding the Diocese of Maitland-Newcastle owed a non-delegable duty of care. Koffels represented the appellant.

Brett J. Smith has been repeatedly accused of assaulting children and using several different names to hide his past. It remains unclear how he passed a background check.

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For pianist James Rhodes, the composer’s music expressed feelings that he could not put into words – and kept helping him as his mental health suffered in adulthood

A high-profile Sydney lawyer has died weeks after being caught with child abuse images at Sydney Airport.

Communications minister Anika Wells points to media reports alleging children can access spaces meant for adults which include explicit sexual content

The religious order sent the priest to Australia for a programme that provided risk assessment and therapy for those accused of sexual abuse.

The complaint filed in Wake County Superior Court late last week expands a case alleging years of misconduct by Robert L. Murphy Jr.

The allegations against six men accused of running the paedophile network have shocked detectives, prosecutors and even the courts.

The man was seven when he was sexually abused by his friend's older brother, who was in his 20s at the time.

BALTIMORE, Md. – A federal grand jury indicted a Perry Hall, Maryland, softball coach in connection with child sexual abuse charges.  Michael Joseph Pusateri, 59, of Nottingham, Maryland, is charged with producing child sexual abuse material (CSAM), coercion and enticement, receipt of CSAM, and possession of CSAM. Kelly O. Hayes, U.S. Attorney for the District of […]

The 27-year-old man from Maryborough is alleged to have had 23,000 photographs and videos stored on a hard drive

[See also the text of Bishop Lewandowski’s letter.] Rhode Island’s Catholic Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski has apologized ahead of a state report on clergy child sex abuse. The attorney general’s report is expected to detail how the church hid abuse by dozens of priests affecting hundreds of children. The diocese voluntarily entered the review and asserts it now has robust policies to protect children. Rhode Island’s Catholic Bishop Bruce A. Lewandowski is seeking to prepare the many Catholics in the state for the imminent release of the attorney general’s long-anticipated report on decades of clergy child sex abuse. And, on Thursday, he also offered an apology. “I take this opportunity to apologize to the victim-survivors for the failures of church personnel and others in past decades to protect them and keep them safe,” he said Jan. 29 in a letter addressed to “Brothers...

The court heard Mark Andrew Lewer had created profiles on four 'dark net' websites. 

Another man has been charged and a further 145 alleged offenders have been referred to international law enforcement agencies as part of an investigation into a satanic child sex abuse material ring.

Author says accusations ‘spread and amplified’ by people more interested in ‘outrage and getting clicks’