A police officer took away a young girl’s trust and innocence after a years-long period of sexual abuse, a court has been told. Conor McCurley, 26, appeared in the Melbourne Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday, where he accepted responsibility for the offending. In an emotional impact statement to the court, theContinue Reading
A Catholic priest with decades of service to church communities is facing allegations he abused a boy in historical sex crimes going back decades. Queensland Police allege Father David Lancini, a priest from Townsville in the state’s north, abused a boy under the age of 14 between 1969 and 1971.Continue Reading
The president of Japan’s biggest and most successful boyband agency admitted on Thursday that its late founder sexually abused young aspiring stars, decades after allegations first emerged. Johnny Kitagawa died aged 87 in 2019, having engineered the birth of J-pop mega-groups including SMAP, TOKIO and Arashi that amassed adoring fansContinue Reading
Australian anti-sex abuse campaigner Grace Tame has appeared at South Australia’s Parliament House as politicians moved to make an important change to the wording of a child sex abuse law. Under the bill, introduced on Thursday, Section 50 of SA’s Criminal Law Consolidation Act 1935 would change the wording ofContinue Reading
VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Saturday updated a 2019 church law aimed at holding senior churchmen accountable for covering up cases of sex abuse, expanding it to cover lay Catholic leaders and reaffirming that vulnerable adults can also be victims of abuse when they are unable to consent.Francis reaffirmed andContinue Reading
The jury charged with rendering a verdict in an alleged principal sex abuse case should use their “common sense” to see the holes in the testimony of three sisters, her lawyer has repeatedly said. Giving his final remarks to the County Court trial of Malka Leifer, 56, barrister Ian HillContinue Reading
A man who was sexually assaulted by Brian Houston’s father claims he was told by the Hillsong founder that he was responsible for the abuse because he “tempted” the late preacher Frank Houston, a court has been told. The bombshell allegation has been denied by Brian Houston, 68, at aContinue Reading