sexual assault

Investigators have accused Combs of using his “business empire” to cover up decades of abuse against women “to fulfil his sexual desires” and “protect his reputation”.

During his first testimony in court this week, Dominique said: “I am a rapist like the others in this room.”

A man in France has pleaded guilty at trial to sedating his then-wife, raping her, and inviting other men to rape her for ten years.

It comes after The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) led an investigation into Swillhouse, which owns several venues including Restaurant Hubert and The Baxter Inn.

More than one in five (22.1%) people aged 18 to 45 in Australia admitted to perpetrating sexual violence as an adult.

Former Liberal staffer Bruce Lehrmann will face trial on rape charges in a Toowoomba court.

The number of reported sexual assaults in Australia is at a record high, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

It comes after he won an appeal to have his sexual assault conviction quashed earlier this month.

CSA data for the year to March shows the number of reported crimes in Victoria increased by over 10% compared to the previous year.

Bruce Lehrmann has arrived in court in Queensland, where he faces two sexual assault charges over an alleged incident in October 2021.

It comes more than a year after the former Parramatta Eels star was found guilty of sexually assaulting a woman in 2018 and sentenced to a maximum of four years and nine months in prison.

The bill would allow judges to sentence convicted child sex offenders to surgical castration in Louisiana from August.

Of the 872 sexual assault reports escalated by NSW police in 2018, less than half resulted in a guilty verdict.

Authorities have found the ‘date rape’ drug, bute, concealed in packaging labelled as body oil, essential oil, and face masks.

Disgraced Hollywood film producer Harvey Weinstein will face a retrial in New York, after his 2020 rape conviction was overturned last week.

Sexual assault cases scheduled to go to court in NSW are now under review, following criticism from a group of judges.

The Australian Institute of Criminology says child sex offenders are targeting parents on online dating platforms.

A new study estimates there have been over 64,000 pregnancies resulting from rape across 14 U.S. states since Roe v Wade was overturned.

A national year-long inquiry by the Australian Law Reform Commission will examine legal responses to sexual violence cases.

Bruce Lehrmann is suing Network Ten for defamation over a 2021 interview with Brittany Higgins where she alleged she was raped.

Football’s global governing body FIFA has banned former Spanish football boss Luis Rubiales for three years, after he non-consensually kissed a female player after the Women’s World Cup.

Bruce Lehrmann can be named as the man who was charged with two counts of rape earlier this year in Toowoomba.

The NSW Government has announced it will recruit 48 sexual assault crisis workers amid a rise in demand for services.