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Sarah Ferguson spends her working life wading through murky waters, tackling difficult, confronting and harrowing stories but none has tested her like the project that consumed her for the past…
Next Wednesday and Thursday, the last two days of the year that’s passed since George Pell was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment, are also the former archbishop’s last real chance…
An American man convicted of filming an infant being sexually abused will likely spend life in prison. Published in One News
A survivor of sexual abuse is conducting what she believes is the first broad survey of victims of sexual abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church, with the hopes that the…
Men who were sexually abused or assaulted—whether as children or adults—may feel isolated and stigmatized by what happened to them. The truth is that millions of men from around the…
Experts have flagged there is a lack of gender-specific rehabilitation for female sex offenders in New Zealand, compared to men who are more often imprisoned and enter male-oriented group programmes….
On the back of a 30-year career as a nurse and public health campaigner, Annette Milligan has a new role that will see her focus on improving outcomes for victims…
Paul Davenport is speaking out about being sexually abused as a child growing up in Northland a bid to help others. Read article By Jenny Ling Published in NZ Herald…
The Catholic Church has been forced to apologise to outraged parents who only learned their parish priest had been convicted of sex offences through a story on Stuff. Published in…
An elite Melbourne school will be investigated by the Victorian Registration & Qualifications Authority over its management of child abuse risks. Published in SBS News
The ‘Offences by Family Members’ report was released today as part of the wider ‘2018 New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey’, with the findings likely to influence future funding for…
A sexual abuse survivor is asking lawmakers to better acknowledge male rape victims and is calling for an end to gender comparisons in sexual abuse statistics. Ken Clearwater, the National…
A priest in Rhode Island has defended his decision to ban all lawmakers who voted in favor enshrining abortion protections under state law from receiving communion at his parish. Published…
It has been more than 18 months since the National Redress Scheme was introduced as a way of compensating survivors of clergy child abuse. Published in ABC
Brisbane’s Catholic Archbishop has made a formal submission opposing the State Government’s plan to make priests report child sex offences revealed in the confessional. Published in ABC
Periodically, for most of the five years of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, I covered its squalid revelations as both journalist and abuse victim. For…
ComVoices have released results from their second survey of community organisations. The State of the Sector Survey 2016 was completed by 280. Published in New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse
A Marlborough teacher who was jailed for having sex with two students aged under 16 has abandoned her bid to keep her name secret. Jamiee Marie Cooney admitted at the…
Mark Coleridge says move to legislate against the sanctity of the confessional will fail to make children safer. Published in The Guardian
Former scout leader James Morris, also known as Ian Phipps, has denied 17 charges of doing indecent acts on six boys over a period of 40 years. Published in Stuff
2020 Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero of the Year 2020 finalists, from left, Ken Clearwater, Diane Yalden and Nick Loosley. Our judges have chosen three finalists whose selflessness and determination…
A former Child, Youth and Family worker accused of abusing more than a dozen boys can now be revealed as a man who once cared for a teen murdered in…
A Nelson charity is “appalled” by bolstered efforts to host freedom campers rather than the city’s homeless. Published in TV NZ
