Former NRL star Brett Finch admits feeling disgusted for sharing child sexual abuse material in a bid to obtain cocaine as his drug addiction "spiralled out of control".
The Australian Capital Territory government has changed the wording of a serious sexual abuse crime after the advocacy of former Australian of the Year Grace Tame.
One of Perth's most notorious paedophiles will walk free from prison within weeks, despite still believing his sexual interest in children is "natural".
A 19-year-old Perth man has been charged with 208 child sex offences after being linked to an "abhorrent" Australian online child exploitation network.
The suspects range in age from 18 to 64 and include a pharmacist and a registered nurse as police urge the legal system to "go after them with a vengeance and lock them up".
Jonathan Doig, who stood for the Greens in 2019, was arrested after he allegedly paid a known child abuse facilitator so he could watch in real time the abuse of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.
Previously redacted papers reveal Cardinal Pell knew about the abuse in 1973 and had considered measures of avoiding situations that "might provoke gossip about it".
Almost $4 million in out of court payments have been awarded to men who suffered child sexual abuse at the hands of Marist Brother Gerard McNamara in Traralgon.
Unpublished findings relating to Cardinal George Pell's handling of child sexual abuse complaints have been cleared for release by the Victorian government.
A wheelchair-bound sexual predator who enticed girls to send him explicit images of themselves because he was "lonely" has been jailed for up to four years.
A man in Florida is suing one of Latin America's largest airlines, saying his six-year-old son was sexually assaulted by an airline employee while travelling as an unaccompanied minor.
More charges have been dropped against several media outlets over reporting on Cardinal George Pell's sexual abuse convictions, as a judge complains about how long the case is taking.
Busselton driving instructor Peter Wallace Hill walked free this month, after serving just two years of his four-year jail term for the sexual penetration of a 13-year-old boy.
A NSW judge has ordered the "ashamed" father-of-three to face his teen victim, as she recounted amid tears the impact his sexual assault has had upon her life.
Lawyers for convicted pedophile George Pell will argue the passage of time makes it difficult to test allegations of historical sex abuse as they make a last-ditch bid for the cardinal's release from jail.
No decision has yet been made on whether Cardinal George Pell will appeal his sex abuse convictions to the High Court despite reports he plans to do so, a spokeswoman for the cleric says.
A man who falsely claimed he was abused by members of a pedophile ring at the heart of the British government has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.
A judge continued the extraordinary $50 million bail Friday for the leader of Mexico-based megachurch La Luz del Mundo but said prosecutors must offer more evidence of their child sex and human trafficking allegations at the next court hearing.
Victoria's police chief says sex crimes are not treated as "plain vanilla offences", after George Pell's defence used the phrase to describe the Cardinal's crimes.