sexual abuse

Attorneys for New Hampshire’s state-run youth detention center are suggesting that a man who claims he was physically and sexually assaulted by multiple counselors as a teen was partially responsible for at least some of the alleged abuse. David Meehan sued the Sununu Youth Services Center, the agencies overseeing it and half a dozen former employees in January 2020 alleging…

Actress and Howard University Dean Phylicia Rashad faced criticism after celebrating the release of Bill Cosby from prison.

Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church law to explicitly criminalize the sexual abuse of adults by priests who abuse their authority

Lady Gaga has opened up about her chronic pain after a traumatic experience being raped at the age of 19 by a music producer.

The Los Angeles Police Department Monday confirmed it is investigating rapper T.I. and his wife after 11 alleged victims accused them of sexual abuse.

“Game of Thrones” actor Esmé Bianco has sued Marilyn Manson alleging sexual, physical and emotional abuse

A former Boston police officer and union chief, charged last August with molesting multiple children, faced child abuse allegations in the mid-1990s. The Boston Globe reports that the Boston Police Department in 1995 filed a criminal complaint against Patrick Rose Sr. for sexual assault on a 12-year-old child. The criminal complaint was eventually dropped, but an internal investigation concluded that…

Actor Armie Hammer is under investigation for sexual assault, Los Angeles police said Thursday.

A defrocked American priest is on trial on charges he sexually abused young girls at his shelter for orphans and children from impoverished families.

Indie rock singer Phoebe Bridgers has made an accusation against Marilyn Manson following Evan Rachel Wood and a few other women’s allegations of abuse against him, which he has denied.

Rocker Marilyn Manson was dropped by his record label on Monday after actor Evan Rachel Wood accused her ex-fiancé of sexual and other physical abuse, alleging she was “manipulated into submission” during their relationship.

In a candid Instagram post, Jacob Roloff claims he was molested by a former “Little People, Big World” field producer.

A sitting priest is among the four accusers in a new sexual abuse lawsuit filed against the Vatican this week.

A one-time Manhattan doctor has been indicted by a federal grand jury on allegations that he sexually abused dozens of female patients over a period of decades. Federal prosecutors say Robert Hadden, formerly affiliated with Columbia University, allegedly abused both minors and adults from the early 1990s through 2012. Among his victims, they say, was a young woman he delivered…

A federal lawsuit says a student with physical and mental disabilities was sexually assaulted by two boys over the span of 17 days on a school bus in Georgia.

Former University of Michigan wrestler Tad DeLuca has identified himself as the whistleblower whose 2018 complaint accusing the late Dr. Robert E

Documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press show University of Michigan officials were warned more than four decades ago that one of its doctors was fondling patients during medical exams. But the records show Dr. Robert E

An Olympic wrestler is accusing a University of Michigan doctor of touching him inappropriately during medical exams at the school

The New Orleans Saints maintain their PR work on the area’s Roman Catholic sexual abuse crisis was “minimal

The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area’s Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis