Latest Sexual abuse News

More schools in France are getting special mailboxes for children to flag abuse

Jan. 30, 2025 10:42 AM EST

PARIS (AP) — A special mailbox for children to flag abuses was set up Thursday at a Paris primary school, a first in the French capital as part of nationwide effort to encourage more victims of sexual violence to speak up. Some 360 such mailboxes have already been deployed across...

Church of England's Liverpool bishop resigns after assault allegations

Jan. 30, 2025 09:56 AM EST

LONDON (AP) — The Bishop of Liverpool has resigned following allegations of sexual assault and harassment, heaping more pressure on the Church of England as it seeks to move past the fallout from a separate scandal that toppled its former leader. Right Rev. John Perumbalath’s...

US watchdog launches database on Catholic priests accused of sex abuse of minors in the Philippines

Jan. 29, 2025 05:11 AM EST

MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A United States-based watchdog on Wednesday launched an online database on more than 80 Roman Catholic priests who have been accused of sexually abusing minors in the Philippines and said the silence of Filipino bishops on the crimes amounted to a cover-up. ...

Maine's high court strikes down removal of time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits

Jan. 28, 2025 16:16 PM EST

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Maine's highest court on Tuesday ruled against a law that removed the statute of limitations for civil claims about child sexual abuse. Lawmakers in the state approved the law in 2021, and it was later challenged by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland. The...

Neil Gaiman, facing multiple allegations of sexual abuse, is dropped by Dark Horse Comics

Jan. 27, 2025 15:02 PM EST

NEW YORK (AP) — One of Neil Gaiman's publishers has dropped him as the British author faces multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment. And his name is not on the website of the agency which has for years handled his speaking appearances. Dark Horse Comics announced on X...

Vatican says sanctions still in effect against Opus Dei cardinal following sex abuse allegations

Jan. 26, 2025 04:52 AM EST

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican said Sunday that disciplinary sanctions are still in effect against the first-ever cardinal from Opus Dei following accusations of sexual abuse, confirming a series of restrictions against the once-powerful archbishop of Lima, Peru that included requiring him to...

Opus Dei cardinal acknowledges Vatican sanctioned him after abuse allegation but denies wrongdoing

Jan. 25, 2025 14:26 PM EST

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The once-powerful archbishop of Lima, Peru and the first-ever cardinal of Opus Dei acknowledged Saturday that the Vatican had imposed sanctions on him in 2019 following an allegation of sexual abuse, but he strongly denied any wrongdoing. Cardinal Juan Luis...

Pope dissolves Peru-based conservative Catholic movement after abuses uncovered by Vatican

Jan. 20, 2025 15:33 PM EST

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis has taken the remarkable step of dissolving a Peruvian-based Catholic movement, the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, after years of attempts at reform and a Vatican investigation. The probe uncovered sexual abuses by its founder, financial mismanagement by its leaders and...

Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Morales in sex abuse case

Jan. 17, 2025 16:10 PM EST

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — A Bolivian judge on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he failed to appear in court over a case alleging that he sexually abused a minor. Morales, 65, is alleged to have had a child with a teenage girl in 2016 — a...

Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he fails to appear in court in a sex abuse case

Jan. 17, 2025 15:16 PM EST
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — Bolivian judge orders the arrest of former President Evo Morales after he fails to appear in court in a sex abuse case.