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Malaysian police rescue 400 minors suspected of being sexually abused at Islamic charity homes linked to Al-Arqam.
2024-09-11

After more than a year of high-level investigation, the Vatican expels Luis Fernando Figari, the leader of the Peruvian society of apostolic life Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, for financial corruption and for downplaying allegations of sexual and psychological abuse.
2024-08-14

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurates a new parliament building capable of holding 1,272 MPs. The ceremony is boycotted by the opposition for not asking President Droupadi Murmu to inaugurate it and for selecting the birthday of Hindutva founder Vinayak Damodar Savarkar as the inauguration date, while Delhi Police detain wrestlers Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik for protesting the sexual abuse of female athletes at the ceremony.
2023-05-28

Actors Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey, who starred in the 1968 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet", file a lawsuit in the Los Angeles County Superior Court against Paramount Pictures for US$500 million, alleging sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and fraud, and for being filmed in the nude without their knowledge.
2023-01-4

The World Health Organization announces it will launch an investigation into the allegations regarding its officials committing acts of sexual exploitation and abuse while on mission to control the Kivu Ebola outbreak in the Équateur Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
2020-09-29

The Boy Scouts of America release documents containing over 15,000 pages relating to allegations of sexual abuse by over 1200 scout leaders between 1965-1985.[https:--www.nytimes.com-2012-10-19-us-boy-scout-documents-reveal-decades-of-sexual-abuse.html?pagewanted=all "(New York Times)"]
2012-10-18

The adopted son of former football coach Jerry Sandusky says that Sandusky molested him.
2012-06-21

The case of a group of elderly Kenyans - 3 men and 1 woman in their 70s and 80s - reaches London's High Court, with the group seeking compensation and apology for their torture by British officers during the 1950s Mau Mau Uprising, including castration, sexual abuse, forced labour and beatings.
2011-04-7

Keith Brown, the former manager and father of The 5 Browns classical music group is sentenced for ten years for sexual abuse of his daughters.
2011-03-31

German Federal Minister of Justice Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger says the Vatican has built a "wall of silence" in response to the country's child sexual abuse controversy of recent months.
2010-03-8