Sexual Offences

• I went to Catholic school, but I was one of the lucky ones Analysis

  RN

  By Antony Funnell

  Posted February 23, 2017 16:09:18 | Updated February 23, 2017 16:13:26

  Sexual abuse in Australia's Catholic schools didn't come from nowhere. It took hold in systems where violence was not just condoned, but encouraged.

  Topics: catholic, religion-and-beliefs, community-and-society, royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, brisbane-4000, qld, australia

• 'It's wrong. It's unfair': A mother's 23-year search for a Church apology

  ABC News Breakfast

  By Patrick Wood

  Posted February 23, 2017 15:11:04

  Eileen Piper has spent more than two decades waiting for the Melbourne Archdiocese to accept one of its priests abused her only daughter, Stephanie, who later committed suicide.

  Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, catholic, sexual-offences, australia

• Court told doctor's alleged abuse trial could last 6 months

  1233 ABC Newcastle

  By Giselle Wakatama

  Posted February 23, 2017 14:55:45 | Updated February 23, 2017 14:58:10

  A court hears there will be unprecedented jury pooling arrangements for what could be one of Australia's biggest alleged malpractice court cases involving a Newcastle doctor.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, doctors-and-medical-professionals, sexual-offences, newcastle-2300

• Catholic Church's response to child sexual abuse was 'criminally negligent'

  By Riley Stuart

  Posted February 23, 2017 14:40:14 | Updated February 23, 2017 16:16:10

  The Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, tells a royal commission the response by Catholic Church leaders to allegations of child sexual abuse amounted to "criminal negligence".

  Topics: royal-commissions, sexual-offences, catholic, child-abuse, sydney-2000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000, adelaide-5000, perth-7300

• As it happened: Archbishops admit 'totally inadequate' response to Church sex abuse

  Posted February 23, 2017 14:03:20 | Updated February 23, 2017 16:14:35

  Catholic Archbishops fronting the royal commission into child sex abuse admit the Church's response was a failure in leadership and culture, asking "what can possibly have gone wrong" to have led to so many offences. See how their first day of testimony unfolded in our blog.

  Topics: catholic, community-and-society, child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, royal-commissions, sydney-2000

• Who's who of Catholic archbishops giving evidence at royal commission

  By Philippa McDonald

  Posted February 23, 2017 06:58:09

  Five of Australia's Catholic archbishops will give evidence today in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. This is who they are, what they've said and their relationship to Cardinal George Pell.

  Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, australia, sydney-2000, perth-6000, adelaide-5000, melbourne-3000, brisbane-4000

• Man accused of donning Kylo Ren mask, stripping stepdaughter naked, refused bail

  By Roxanne Taylor

  Posted February 22, 2017 19:34:26 | Updated February 22, 2017 20:14:08

  A man who allegedly pretended to be a police officer to pull over his stepdaughter before blindfolding her, driving her to a deserted bush area and stripping her naked and photographing her is refused bail.

  Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, collie-6225, wa

• Catholic brothers' secrecy culture hid child sex abuse: royal commission

  By Jackson Vernon

  Posted February 22, 2017 17:20:14 | Updated February 22, 2017 17:39:43

  A secrecy culture of "don't ask, don't tell" could explain allegations of child sex abuse within a religious order with one of the highest numbers of alleged abusers, the royal commission is told.

  Topics: royal-commissions, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, beaudesert-4285, sydney-2000

• Teacher accused of sex with student refused bail

  ABC Illawarra

  By Emily Laurence

  Posted February 22, 2017 16:56:16

  An Illawarra high school teacher accused of having sex with a 17-year-old student whom he groomed online remains in custody after a bid for bail is refused.

  Topics: sexual-offences, schools, wollongong-2500

• Roblox case sparks renewed cyber warning for parents

  ABC Radio Darwin

  By Emilia Terzon

  Posted February 22, 2017 14:18:30

  Parents are being reminded to pre-vet every app their young children download amid renewed concerns that virtual reality gaming is exposing minors to sexual advances.

  Topics: internet-culture, games, child-abuse, family-and-children, sexual-offences, australia, darwin-0800

• 10yo boy facing child sex charge will not return to his school

  By Courtney Bembridge

  Posted February 21, 2017 16:27:18 | Updated February 21, 2017 20:28:05

  A 10-year-old Perth boy charged with sexually penetrating and threatening to kill an eight-year-old boy will not be returning to his northern suburbs school after parents expressed their concern.

  Topics: primary-schools, sexual-offences, children, perth-6000, wa

• Lollipop man facing hundreds of child abuse charges

  By Joanna Menagh

  Posted February 21, 2017 15:30:36

  A former school traffic warden will plead not guilty to more than 300 child sex offences, the Perth Magistrates Court is told.

  Topics: child-abuse, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, perth-6000, wa

• Should bystanders intervene in sexual harassment? Opinion

  The Conversation

  By Bianca Fileborn from UNSW

  Posted February 21, 2017 15:30:36 | Updated February 21, 2017 15:32:48

  Preventing sexual violence is everyone's responsibility, but we need to be careful about how we do it, writes Bianca Fileborn from UNSW.

  Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, australia, vic, tas, qld, sa, nt, nsw, wa

• Uber boss orders investigation into sexual harassment claims

  The World Today

  By Lucy Carter

  Posted February 21, 2017 12:49:27 | Updated February 21, 2017 13:40:48

  Ride-booking company Uber announces an urgent investigation into claims of sexual harassment and discrimination at the company, as well as threats from management against those who complain.

  Topics: sexual-offences, internet-technology, united-states

• Church funding defence of paedophile 'just blows me away', Victorian judge says

  By James Hancock

  Posted February 20, 2017 19:59:58 | Updated February 20, 2017 20:18:47

  The Catholic Church is continuing to cover the legal bills of convicted paedophile and Christian Brother Robert Best, who has admitted to sexually abusing a further 20 boys in his care, a Victorian court is told.

  Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, melbourne-3000, ballarat-3350, geelong-3220

• 'Disturbing' increase in children committing sexual assaults

  By Erin Parke

  Posted February 19, 2017 12:39:23 | Updated February 19, 2017 12:49:13

  Police in Western Australia's north are concerned about an increase in children committing sexual assaults, a trend child advocates say is being seen nationally.

  Topics: child-abuse, sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, broome-6725, wa

• The rise of ride sharing for women only

  By Jessica Martin

  Posted February 18, 2017 05:39:05

  More and more women feel unsafe riding in Ubers and taxis, writes Jessica Martin. But is the new female-only ride sharing service, Shebah, the answer?

  Topics: women, feminism, internet-technology, sexual-offences, australia

• Eighty-year-old child sex offender convicted 47 years later

  ABC North Coast

  By Bruce MacKenzie and Samantha Turnbull

  Posted February 17, 2017 18:14:08

  A woman who was sexually assaulted by her stepfather 47 years ago has welcomed a sentence putting the now 80-year-old in prison for at least 10 months.

  Topics: sexual-offences, law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, lismore-2480

• Childhood sexual assault victim Debbie McDonald image

  image
  ABC News

  Posted February 17, 2017 18:14:08

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, lismore-2480

• Childhood sexual assault victim Debbie McDonald Audio

  Audio
  ABC News

  5min 2sec

  Posted February 17, 2017 18:14:08

  Childhood sexual assault victim Debbie McDonald speaks to ABC North Coast's Bruce MacKenzie about her stepfather's prison sentence.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, courts-and-trials, lismore-2480

• Man jailed for 12 years over 'brutal' sex attacks in Perth, Albany

  By Eliza Laschon

  Posted February 17, 2017 14:46:47 | Updated February 17, 2017 18:22:34

  A man is sentenced to 12 years in prison for a series of attacks described in court as "terrifying" and "brutal" on young women in Western Australia in the early 1990s.

  Topics: sexual-offences, child-abuse, police, gosnells-6110, albany-6330, perth-6000

• Catholic schools and homes with the most child abuse claims revealed

  Posted February 16, 2017 17:24:01 | Updated February 17, 2017 08:06:36

  The Catholic Church reveals which schools and children's homes had more than 20 claims of child sexual abuse — one institution alone faced 219 accusations.

  Topics: catholic, schools, child-abuse, sexual-offences, royal-commissions, australia, hamilton-2303, new-norcia-6509, box-hill-3128, cheltenham-3192, goodwood-5034, bathurst-2795, wandering-6308, engadine-2233, hunters-hill-2110, ballarat-3350, morisset-2264, marion-5043, sunbury-3429, westmead-2145, adamstown-2289, tardun-6628, pearce-2607, nudgee-4014, geelong-3220, south-melbourne-3205, bindoon-6502, wilson-6107, waterford-6152, beaudesert-4285

• Paedophile priest Brian Spillane jailed for nine years

  By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop

  Posted February 16, 2017 14:31:14 | Updated February 16, 2017 18:53:15

  A "wickedly manipulative" serial paedophile priest is sentenced to stay behind bars until at least 2026 for the sexual abuse of boys at St Stanislaus College in Bathurst in central west NSW.

  Topics: law-crime-and-justice, courts-and-trials, sexual-offences, religion-and-beliefs, catholic, sydney-2000, bathurst-2795

• Catholic Church paid out $276m over child sex abuse claims

  Posted February 16, 2017 13:17:17 | Updated February 16, 2017 19:37:41

  Close to 4,500 people made claims for alleged incidents of child sexual abuse between January 1980 and February 2015 but the earliest incidents reported to a claim were in the 1920s, the child abuse royal commission hears.

  Topics: royal-commissions, law-crime-and-justice, child-abuse, sexual-offences, catholic, religion-and-beliefs, sydney-2000

• Uber driver found guilty of raping woman

  By Lucy Carter

  Posted February 15, 2017 18:43:43

  An Uber driver is found guilty by a Sydney court of raping a female passenger, after picking her up at a Kings Cross nightclub in 2015.

  Topics: courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sexual-offences, sydney-2000, kings-cross-2011

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