As governments prepare for the Second Global Ministerial Conference on Ending Violence Against Children in Manila, the Philippines (Nov 18–19, 2026), a new index casts a sharp light on their gaps in ...

The news that former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was investigated by Child Protective Services for a false ...

A Polk County father is speaking publicly for the first time after he said his 4-year-old son disclosed he was sexually ...

Illicit massage businesses operate under the appearance of legitimate massage parlors or spas while secretly selling commercial sex.

A lawyer for a woman who testified about being raped more than 100 times as a teenager while living in a group home in Deerfield in the early 1990s told a jury Monday morning that no amount of money ...

A British teacher sexually assaulted and murdered a 13-month-old baby he was in the process of adopting, in what authorities called a “pure evil” four-month campaign. Jamie Varley was found guilty of ...

Pope Leo XIV on Monday denounced the "scourge" of sexual violence by Catholic clergy and called for a "culture of care" in the Church ahead of an expected private meeting with victims in Spain. "One ...

Ohio State University on Wednesday agreed to pay out $100 million to former students who accused a campus doctor of sexually abusing them more than 20 years ago. The settlement includes all but one of ...

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Warning: this article contains distressing quotes from perpetrators of child sexual abuse. Researchers have long tried to answer the question: why do some men sexually abuse children? We recently set ...

Xiangming Fang is in the Academy of Global Food Economics and Policy, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100083, China, and the School of Public Health, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia ...

Clues to a degenerative disease could be showing up sooner than we realize. Alzheimer’s disease primarily affects people over the age of 65, but a couple of subtle signs could come up to two decades ...