Child Sexual Abuse

Two women abused by a paedophile priest in the 1970s are pursuing the Catholic Church for compensation, but a High Court decision has put their case in jeopardy.

An ABC investigation into the $2 billion residential care system finds children in three of the biggest states are being preyed upon by child sex abusers when they should be safe in state care.

Ex-Queensland police officer Ross Kouimanis is now behind bars for the rape and assault of a child in the 1990s. The survivor of the abuse says he carried a silent burden for decades.

Police have charged the 28-year-old with a series of child abuse offences, including one count of sexual intercourse with a child under 10, following a search at an Alice Springs home.

A former employee of Tasmania's notorious Ashley Youth Detention Centre has been arrested over alleged serious sexual offences, including child sexual abuse, while he was working at the centre.

Peter Norris's father was a violent bank robber who lived life on the run, dragging his boy across the country with him, until Peter refused to go with him one last time. It was the hardest decision he ever had to make.

Virginia Giuffre, a prominent accuser of Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew, has died aged 41. 

From the clerical sexual abuse crisis to financial scandals in the Vatican, Pope Francis oversaw one of the most tumultuous periods in the Church's modern history.

Lisa Siebert has called for the Liberal Party's proposed royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities to be expanded to all Australian children.

Disgraced school teacher Peter Farmer had been living a quiet life in Queensland until Victorian Police uncovered his history of sexual assault 37 years after his offending.

The child sexual abuse royal commission gave victim-survivors of abuse hope that institutions would learn from their past mistakes. But seven years on from its final report, some victim-survivors are feeling let down all over again.

A 19-year-old man is sentenced to nearly seven years jail after pleading guilty to five counts of aggravated rape, one act of indecency and a threat to kill committed against a 14-year-old girl over five days.

A 36-year-old man from Geraldton is facing nine charges related to the alleged possession and sharing of child sexual abuse material online.

Victoria allows people under investigation for abuse and assault to retain their working with children clearance. Parents and advocates say it is high time that changed.

Peter Cotton told Tasmania's Catholic Church it had a paedophile priest in its ranks. More than 20 years on, he's worried the church hasn't learnt from the experience.

Peter Cotton says without "owning up", the Catholic Church in Tasmania is at risk of repeating past mistakes.

The former primary school teacher is facing 20 historical sexual assault charges for offences alleged to have taken place during classes, sporting trips and sleepovers at children's homes.

A former public servant accused of paying a young relative hundreds of dollars to send him indecent images of herself has been denied bail in the ACT Magistrates Court.

Former Marist Brother Gregory Sutton, who was named at the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse, pleads guilty to offences committed in the state's far north in the 1970s.

A man who sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl in an act of "significant violence" after breaking into her Perth home is sentenced to 18 years in prison.