A group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander advocates and NGOS expressed deep concerns Friday about the mistreatment of children in youth prisons in an open letter to the Victorian government. The... Read more »
A grand jury declined to return an indictment Thursday against Brittany Watts, an Ohio woman facing an abuse of corpse charge after suffering a miscarriage in her home. The Trumbull County prosecutor’s... Read more »
A federal bankruptcy judge started the clock on Monday for sexual abuse survivors seeking damages from the Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore, setting a date of May 31, 2024, for claims to be... Read more »
Several thousand young people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland are being caught each year sharing or watching indecent images of children, including child abuse material, with a majority of people identified... Read more »
The UK, the US and Canada announced coordinated sanctions on Friday against individuals and entities linked to human rights abuse, approaching the 75th anniversary of the ratification of the Universal Declaration of Human... Read more »
Earlier this year, five Rankin County Sheriff’s deputies and one police officer were charged and later pleaded guilty to criminal charges for both federal civil rights offenses and state charges for home... Read more »
Ex-cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who was charged with sexual assault in the fourth degree for fondling an 18-year-old family friend in the 1970s, could escape punishment now that a Wisconsin prosecutor declined to... Read more »
More than 3,000 civil sex-abuse lawsuits have been filed since a one-time window opened in New York State, with a final wave of suits being filed against politicians, celebrities and institutions before... Read more »
About a third of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders say they have experienced an act of abuse based on their race or ethnicity this year according to a new polling report from... Read more »
A federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois against the state’s Franklin County Juvenile Detention Center claims that the center violated youths’ constitutional rights by subjecting them to... Read more »