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Child Sex Abuse

'National conversation' needed as half of survivors of childhood sexual violence haven't told anyone

1 May

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Courts

Former Kerry school teacher jailed for possession of 162 videos and images of child sex abuse

11 Dec 2024

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David John andrews

Belfast man (55) who posed as a teenager online to commit child sex offences sentenced

Updated 10 Dec 2024

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The Morning Lead

People who give character references for sexual offenders can now be cross-examined in court

Michael D Higgins signed the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023 today.

Mairead Maguire

18 Jul 2024

16.4k

Central Criminal Court

Woman testifies her father and brothers raped her weekly for years in child sex abuse trial

11 May 2023

39.8k

Child Sex Abuse

St John Ambulance still has ‘quasi-military structure’ not appropriate for children

16 Mar 2023

18.1k

mick finnegan

Survivor vows to protest outside St John's Ambulance HQ until child abuse report is published

6 Feb 2023

19.1k

Chicago

Prosecutor drops sex abuse charges against singer R Kelly after federal convictions

31 Jan 2023

14.6k

cyber crime bureau

The number of child sex abuse image investigations jumped 25% last year

13 May 2022

5.9k

Catholic Church

Ex-pope Benedict failed to act in four child abuse cases, report finds

Updated 20 Jan 2022

29.9k

Courts

Former Franciscan friar jailed for indecent assault and rape of child in 1980s

30 Jul 2021

24.4k

Courts

Student jailed for 16 months for accessing child abuse images 'of the most depraved nature' online

23 Mar 2021

41.5k

Kieran Creaven

Former RTÉ producer charged with 17 child sex offences sent for trial

18 Nov 2020

51.7k

Cardinal Vincent Nichols

UK Catholic Church leader says he won't resign over report into child sex abuse allegations

10 Nov 2020

16.9k

Australia

Pope tweets of 'unjust sentence' as Cardinal George Pell has child sex abuse conviction quashed

Updated 7 Apr 2020

66.3k

Courts

Explainer: How a woman was prosecuted over deleted child sex abuse images she was sent without consent

8 Feb 2020

47.9k

richard huckle

One of Britain’s worst paedophiles stabbed to death in prison

14 Oct 2019

49.1k

Courts

Father-of-five jailed for 18 months after being sent two child sexual abuse videos

14 Oct 2019

39.2k

Released

Convicted child sex offender Tom Humphries released from Midlands Prison

16 Aug 2019

63.5k

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Damning

Chelsea staff 'turned blind eye' to sexual abuse

6 Aug 2019

7.4k

Child Sex Abuse

Cardinal Pell told he 'may not live to be released' as he's sentenced to six years in jail

13 Mar 2019

14.4k

redress scheme

Manchester City launch redress scheme for survivors of historic child sex abuse at club

12 Mar 2019

8.2k

Opinion

Opinion: Is the Catholic Church still covering up child sex abuse on the grounds that it is a 'pontifical secret'?

Shane Dunphy

3 Mar 2019

28.8k

Illinois

Almost 700 clergymen accused of child sex abuse in US state - far more than was disclosed by Church

20 Dec 2018

9.9k

Catholic Chuch

Pope accepts resignations of two more Chilean bishops over child sexual abuse scandal

21 Sep 2018

9.5k

Catholic Church

Number of sex abuse cases against the Chilean clergy has tripled to 119

31 Aug 2018

10.0k

Child Sex Abuse

Pope Francis accepts resignation of Australian archbishop found guilty of abuse cover-up

30 Jul 2018

11.6k

Human Rights

'Three men abused me but 46 years later, I'm still fighting the State'

6 May 2018

42.4k

sex tourism

'Children's lives have been taken from them': Bill proposes to restrict foreign travel of convicted paedophiles

18 Apr 2018

12.1k

Garda Inspectorate

'Untrained' investigators: Garda approach in child sex abuse cases criticised

27 Feb 2018

10.9k

Guilty

'Devil incarnate' football coach Barry Bennell sentenced to 30 years for child sex abuse

Updated 19 Feb 2018

16.3k

Courts

Dublin man who used Snapchat and Skype to exploit young girls jailed for 9.5 years

26 Jan 2018

27.2k

Historical Abuse

Former PM Ted Heath allegedly sexually assaulted boys as young as 10

5 Oct 2017

27.2k

Child Sex Abuse

Commissioner orders review of sex abuse victim's claims that gardai 'forgot to send file to the DPP'

20 Jul 2017

21.5k

fight for justice

Woman's rape claims against father and brother were 'shelved' by gardaí for 11 years

6 Jul 2017

69.1k

historic failings

Church of England admits it 'colluded and concealed' sex abuse claims against a bishop

22 Jun 2017

10.7k

retracing steps

New website will show clues from child sex abuse cases to help track down paedophiles

1 Jun 2017

12.5k

Historical Abuse

Rolf Harris freed from prison as he awaits outcome of indecent assault trial

19 May 2017

11.0k

Europol

Crackdown on paedophile ring that uses Whatsapp to share images of child sex abuse

18 Apr 2017

13.2k

reach out

'Courage must lead to convictions': New garda phoneline set up for victims of child sex abuse

3 Mar 2017

7.4k

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