All news on the topic: Sexual Violence

The boss of Harrods has personally apologised for the first time in relation to sexual abuse allegations against the store’s late owner Mohamed Al Fayed.

A scheme to compensate members of a defunct religious cult known as the Jesus Army has identified 539 alleged perpetrators of abuse, and revealed about one in six children had been sexually abused.

An Australian court sentenced a 29-year-old man to 17 years in prison for coercing 286 victims from several countries, including 180 children, into performing sexually explicit acts on camera or video.

Officers are having to cancel appointments with victims and delay arrests as they are routinely diverted to police other events including football matches.

The victims were aged between 14 and 16 at the time.

Maths tutor Holly Rouse-Sweeney, 37, from Hebden Bridge, has been jailed for six years after sexually abusing a teenage boy with police finding damning diary entries on her laptop

A ‘sex for rent’ landlord who asked young female tenants to perform sex acts in exchange for reduced rent has been jailed for two and a half years.

A gang of sexual predators who committed horrific acts of abuse against at least eight young girls over the course of a decade have finally been jailed.