sexual abuse

The New York City Police Department is asking the public to come forward if they have any information about a man who was arrested for allegedly preying on multiple young girls at a New York City school. Police allege that between November 2019 and July 2021, 30-year-old Gerardo Gutierrez sexually assaulted at least three girls under 12 years old during…

The U.S. Olympic Committee is “less focused on athlete well-being and more focused on winning,” says Marci Hamilton, chair of the Game Over Commission. She joined LX News to talk about the commission’s recent report, which says the current business of sports places athletes at risk of abuse.

Lawyers for Prince Andrew and his accuser Virginia Giuffre have filed their initial requests for witnesses in her lawsuit accusing the British royal of sexually abusing her at age 17.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by late sex criminal and financier Jeffrey Epstein.

A woman testified at Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex crimes trial that Jeffrey Epstein took her to meet Donald Trump when she was 14 years old.

The complaint accuses Andrew Cuomo of forcible touching of a female executive assistant in December in the New York governor’s mansion.

The FBI and the U.S. Department of State’s Diplomatic Security Service are looking for more information and potentially more victims of a former CIA employee who pleaded guilty to sexual abuse charges in July.

A former Drexel University neurologist accused of exploiting his patients’ severe pain and addiction to medication to sexually abuse them over a 15-year span in Philadelphia, New York and New Jersey, now faces a federal indictment.

The head of France’s Catholic bishops conference is asking forgiveness from the estimated 330,000 victims of child sex abuse by the church found in a groundbreaking report.

The National Women’s Soccer League has called off its weekend games amid sexual abuse allegations against former North Carolina Courage coach Paul Riley.

The Cuban-American superstar spoke for the first time publicly about the abuse and its effects on her during an episode of the Facebook Watch show “Red Table Talk: The Estefans.”

Pope Francis on Wednesday accepted the resignation of the Catholic bishop of Brooklyn, Nicholas DiMarzio, weeks after a Vatican investigation cleared him of sexual abuse allegations, and appointed a native New Yorker to replace him. DiMarzio is 77 years old, two years beyond the normal retirement age for bishops. Francis accepted his resignation and appointed Bishop Robert Brennan of Columbus,…

R&B singer R. Kelly was found guilty Monday on all counts in a high-profile sex-trafficking case by a federal jury in Brooklyn.

Sarah Klein was first abused by Larry Nassar in 1988 when she was just 8 years old. Today she is a pillar of support for the younger victims of the USA Gymnastics doctor’s abuse. They include Olympians Simone Biles and McKayla Maroney, who testified before the U.S. Senate on Wednesday about failures by the Department of Justice and FBI to...

Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney testifies at a U.S. Senate hearing on the FBI’s mishandling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case.

Olympic gymnast Simone Biles testifies at a U.S. Senate hearing on the FBI’s handling of the Larry Nassar sexual abuse case.

Rev. Megan Rohrer became the first openly transgender bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in September 2021. And now they are using their new platform to work toward diversifying the leadership of the church and cheerleading for others who are “living in the intersections.”

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

People sexually abused as adults would have a chance to sue the perpetrators even if the usual deadline to bring a lawsuit had expired under a bill gaining momentum in New York’s legislature