A private art teacher has been charged following an investigation into alleged historical sexual offences and indecent assault of a young student in Sydney's south. In December 2019, detectives from the Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad commenced ...

Father Michael McArdle wrote in a 2004 affidavit that he made confessions of child abuse 1,500 times over 25 years. Each time, he walked out of the confessional booth with his sins absolved.Advertisements Rockhampton Bishop Brian Heenan barred ...

Parish priests will be stripped of their power over hundreds of Catholic schools in Melbourne, with the archbishop to take sole authority from next year as the church responds to new laws that enable survivors of sexual abuse to sue ...

A former swim coach charged with 57 child sex offences involving 11 boys from the same swim school is expected to return home to his family after spending just over week inside a Sydney jail. ...

Corpus Christi was where sexually repressed men could “act out” with each other, living double lives, then transfer their attentions to the most innocent in their flocks. ...

A Catholic priest left a 14-year-old boy in a seminary common room with several other boys before another priest came and "selected" him for abuse, says an explosive new statement of claim. ...

Victims of a depraved pedophile teacher who abused children for decades say they still suffer because of "catastrophic failures" in the education system. Vincent Henry Reynolds, 78, admitted abusing 38 children multiple times starting from the ...

Swim coach Kyle Daniels has faced court again over 36 charges of sexually assaulting girls as young as seven at an elite Mosman Swim Centre on Sydney’s north shore. The 20-year-old former private school prefect faces allegations including ...

As a Brother at the prestigious Riverview College in Sydney, Victor Higgs was supposed to be teaching the sons of some of Australia's wealthiest families. But instead, police allege he was sexually abusing them. Higgs, 81, is accused of ...

Victims of child sexual abuse by priests and other religious figures could be about to unleash a wave of new claims for compensation after the Andrews government moved to close a legal loophole allowing churches to avoid liability. One ...

Sydney: Convicted paedophiles will have their passports cancelled to prevent them travelling overseas to offend again under tough new laws which Australia Tuesday hailed as a “world first”. Legislation will be introduced to parliament this ...

It’s been a five-year fight, but Queensland grandparents John and Sue Sandeman came away victorious on September 14. The grandparents had been fighting to change Queensland’s mandatory reporting laws for childcare workers to report suspected ...

Police are investigating multiple child abuse allegations levelled directly against Australia's most senior Catholic cleric Cardinal George Pell, the ABC's 7.30 program has revealed. Victoria Police's Taskforce SANO, which investigates ...

A Perth paedophile who recorded himself sexually abusing 75 young children in the aisles of department stores over a three-year period has been sentenced to 16-and-a-half years in jail. In a case described by Judge Stephen Scott as "every ...

Australian police have described the case of a six-year-old boy who was sexually abused by his adoptive gay fathers and other people as "depraved". The baby boy, now eight, they adopted from a Russian woman in 2005 for US$8,000 (S$10,000) had ...

VICTIMS of abuse in Salvation Army children's homes have condemned the organization for not investigating allegations of abuse, after it revealed it had paid out more than $15 million in compensation and received 470 complaints, and that 50 ...