Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter

NEWS ABOUT: sexual abuse

sexual abuse stories: 68 news summaries

1 - 20 of 68 Stories | 1 2 3 4 Next >>

Switch to grid view »

 Tape Released 
 of Mother's 
 911 Call on 
 Shaniya 

Mom says she woke to find little girl gone

Nov 18, 09 4:33 AM CST
(Newser) - Shaniya Davis' apparently emotional mom tells a 911 dispatcher that she awoke to find her daughter missing, just days before the North Carolina kindergartner turned up dead. "I don't know if she walked out or I don't know what's going on, but she's not here," says Antoinette Davis... More »

MORE ABOUT:
North Carolina • sexual abuse • child rape • Shaniya Davis • Antoinette Davis

 'Manhattan Manny' Pleads Guilty in Boy's Sex Abuse

21-year-old babysitter dodges life sentence with plea

Oct 2, 09 4:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - A male babysitter who dubbed himself "the Manhattan Manny" is facing a 12-year sentence after pleading guilty to sexually abusing an 8-year-old boy. Jonathan Then, who also worked at summer camps and as a teaching aide in some of New York City's ritziest private schools, had originally been charged... More »

MORE ABOUT:
New York City • child molestation • sexual abuse • guilty plea • babysitter

Vatican Slams Sex Abuse in Other Religions

Pedophilia statement charges that most abusers are gay

Sep 29, 09 5:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Vatican hit out at critics of its handling of the church's sexual abuse crisis yesterday, maintaining that most of its abusive clergymen were gay men and not pedophiles. The Holy See's UN representative cited "available research" that only 5% or less of its clergy were involved in... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Catholic Church • Vatican • sexual abuse • homosexuality • clergy abuse scandal • priest sex abuse • homosexual clergy • pedophilia • gay men

Man Arrested
for Kissing His
Own Daughter

Italian tourist faces 15 years in prison after Brazil pool incident

Sep 7, 09 8:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - A controversy is brewing in Brazil over a 48-year-old Italian tourist who was arrested for touching and kissing his own 8-year-old daughter, the BBC reports. A couple reported seeing the man touching a young girl inappropriately at a hotel pool, apparently unaware that the girl was his daughter. Under a... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Brazil • Italy • child molestation • sexual abuse • misunderstanding

 Inside Jaycee's Tent: 
 a Wii, and Squalor 

Pics show hints of domesticity amid trash and dirt

Sep 2, 09 12:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - Photos of the backyard and tents where Jaycee Lee Dugard and her children lived reveal a small slice of normalcy amid appalling squalor, CBS News reports. The yard that Dugard’s meticulously dressed girls emerged from is littered with piles of trash and rusting bikes. But inside, where there was... More »

MORE ABOUT:
backyards • kidnapping • children • sexual abuse • abduction • Jaycee Lee Dugard • Phillip Garrido • Nancy Garrido • tent

 Aussies Sorry for 10K Kids 
 Shipped for 'Slave Labor' 

British children were abused, kept hungry in program lasting until 1960s

Aug 31, 09 6:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Australian prime minister will apologize to generations of British migrants shipped to Australia as children and subjected to abuse, hunger, and slave labor. Between the 1920s and 1960s the UK sent about 10,000 children to provide Australia with "good white stock," but when they arrived they... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Australia • slave labor • sexual abuse • abuse • orphan • Kevin Rudd

Conn. Boarding School Sued Over Molester Dean

Kids at man's apartment at 'all hours': lawyer

Aug 21, 09 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Connecticut boarding school has been hit with two lawsuits over a former dean’s alleged sexual abuse of students he is charged with having as "overnight guests" in his apartment, the Danbury News-Times reports. The now-fired dean at The Gunnery School was charged Aug. 5 with sexual assault,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
children • sexual abuse • donation • prep schools • sexual assault • boarding school

OPINION

 US Nuns Dodge 
 Specter of Sex Abuse 


Aug 17, 09 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Last week the largest group of American nuns held its annual meeting, and once again they refused to let survivors of sexual abuse in Catholic schools attend. When even the bishops have acknowledged the depth and seriousness of abuse within the Church, it's strange for the nuns to bury their... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Catholic Church • sexual abuse • nuns • abuse • clergy abuse scandal • Catholic

ANALYSIS

 Female Sex Crimes: 
 Society's Last Taboo 

Gender myths, unreported cases allow problem to persist unchecked

Aug 8, 09 6:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - A mother’s love is supposed to be sacred, which may explain why Britain is struggling to face up to child molestation at the hands of women, Charlotte Philby writes in the Independent. Stats are hard to come by, but one UK abuse organization says 11% of callers in 2004—... More »

MORE ABOUT:
United Kingdom • women • child molestation • sexual abuse • taboo • pedophilia

(AP) - Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who became an outfitter to the stars and fought the federal government over claims he underpaid followers for church work, was convicted today in Arkansas of taking five girls across state lines for sex. The jury of nine men and three women found Alamo... More »

MORE ABOUT:
sexual abuse • trial • conviction • sexual predator • verdict • evangelist • guilty verdict • Tony Alamo

(Newser) - Queen Latifah has revealed she was sexually abused as a child by a male charged with her care. "He violated me," the actress singer said in an interview in Essence magazine. "I never told anybody; I just buried it as deeply as I could and kept people... More »

MORE ABOUT:
child abuse • sexual abuse • Queen Latifah • child

(Newser) - The Pentagon denies a report that classified photos of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib depict rape and sexual abuse, Reuters reports. Britain’s Daily Telegraph “completely mischaracterized the images,” a spokesman said today. “None of the photos in question depict the images that are described.” The... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iraq • Barack Obama • torture • Abu Ghraib • Iraqi prisons • rape • Antonio Taguba • sexual abuse • sexual assault • torture photos • Daily Telegraph

 Abu Ghraib Photos 
 Reveal Rape: US Officer 

Guards raped male and female detainees, used wire for sex torture, according to probe

May 28, 09 4:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Unreleased photos of prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib depict apparent rape and sexual abuse, according to a retired American officer who conducted an inquiry at the infamous Iraqi prison. Two photos depict the rape of a male and a female prisoner, while others show sexual assaults using a truncheon, wire,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Iraq • Barack Obama • torture • Abu Ghraib • Iraqi prisons • rape • Antonio Taguba • sexual abuse • sexual assault • torture photos

OPINION

Sex-Abuse Report Shames Ireland, Church

Writer lauds harrowing report of violence against children

May 21, 09 8:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - The massive report released yesterday documenting the systematic abuse of children in Irish Catholic schools and institutions is "a monument to the shameful nature of Irish society throughout most of the decades of the 20th century," writes Mary Raftery in the Irish Times. The painstaking disclosure of physical... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Catholic Church • child abuse • sexual abuse • abuse • Ireland • priest sex abuse • Irish Catholics • Catholic priest • Christian school

 Irish Church 
 Long Shielded 
 Pedophiles: Report 

Long-awaited report finds rampant abuses at reform schools

May 20, 09 12:29 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sexual abuse was endemic in Irish Catholic institutions until the 1980s, a 9-year government inquiry has found. Over a 60-year period, 2000 children—mostly boys, now over 50—suffered physical and sexual abuses at the rigid schools, the BBC reports. Church officials encouraged beatings and shielded pedophiles in their orders,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Catholic Church • child abuse • sexual abuse • church • Ireland • priest sex abuse • pastor controversy • Catholic priest • Cardinal Sean Brady

Federal Judge Gets 3 Years in Sex Abuse Case

Congressmen press for resignation of Kent in first-ever such case

May 12, 09 9:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas judge was sentenced yesterday to 33 months in prison for lying to investigators in the first sex abuse case ever against a sitting federal judge, the AP reports. Samuel Kent pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice in February; five sex-crimes charges related to two female employees were dismissed.... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Texas • prison • crime • sexual harassment • sexual abuse • judge • obstruction of justice • guilty plea • molestation • Samuel Kent

 Polygamy Sect Struggling for Funds to Battle Charges

Church loses funds as it fights legal battles

May 11, 09 3:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Members of a cash-strapped Texas polygamous sect plan to argue this week that key evidence against them should be thrown out because it was illegally obtained, the Wall Street Journal reports. Authorities say the diaries, photos, and documents they seized prove that underage marriages took place on the FLDS ranch,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Texas • crime • sexual abuse • polygamy • FLDS • polygamists • criminal trial

(Newser) - An international pedophile gang that preyed on infants through teens has been convicted in a groundbreaking case in Scotland that sentenced lawbreakers for the first time for conspiring to carry out sex attacks, reports the Times of London. The eight men will be imprisoned for an indefinite period until they... More »

MORE ABOUT:
crime • child molestation • rape • pedophile • sexual abuse • sexual assault • molestation • child rape • pedophilia • sex assault

 'Italian Fritzl' and Son Arrested 

Father accused of raping daughter, encouraging son to do the same

Mar 28, 09 7:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Italian police have arrested a father and son in an incest case they are comparing to the horrors of the Fritzl household, the Daily Telegraph reports. The patriarch of the Turin family is accused of controlling and raping his daughter for 25 years and encouraging his son to rape both... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Italy • rape • sexual abuse • incest • Josef Fritzl • Howard Stern Grid

 Fritzl Daughter 
 Gives Video Testimony 

Will be held on camera; press faces jail for reporting

Mar 17, 09 6:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The judge in Josef Fritzl’s incest trial kicked press and the public out of the court today ahead of Elisabeth Fritzl’s video testimony in a move to protect her identity, the Guardian reports. Her recorded evidence is being played “in small portions,” a court official said,... More »

MORE ABOUT:
rape • Austria • sexual abuse • trial • court • testimony • incest • Josef Fritzl • Elisabeth Fritzl

1 - 20 of 68 Stories | 1 2 3 4 Next >>


from our news partners