A former Hawke's Bay jockey has been jailed for six years for years of sexual abuse and violence against a young girl who told him in court today he had robbed her of a childhood that should have been focused on dolls and pretty pink dresse

A Queen's Counsel will carry out an investigation into the publication of the names of two sexual abuse victims on a Ministry of Justice website.

The Chief High Court Judge, Justice Helen Winkelmann, says the court failed to note suppression rules on a judgement which led to two sexual abuse victims being named on the Ministry of Justice website.

An independent reviewer is to be appointed to look into the accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names on the Ministry of Justice website.

The accidental publishing of two sexual abuse victims' names may have been the fault of a judge and not a clerical error as earlier thought, Justice Minister Simon Power says.

The man accused of sexually violating and killing a five-year-old Napier girl has been further remanded in custody.

Ghislaine Maxwell speaks to Jeremy Kyle from behind bars and claims that the convicted paedophile was murdered and she wished she never had met him. Video / Talk TV

One of the country's most notorious killers has told one of his victims what she has waited nearly 15 years to hear.

A sex offender supposed to be under constant monitoring was allegedly found in bed with a 14-year-old girl.

A 24-year-old Christchurch fisherman broke into the home of a woman he met months earlier on an internet dating site and sexually assaulted her, a court was told today.