Further allegations against the Church of Scientology, including claims of child sex abuse and neglect, have renewed calls for an inquiry into the organisation.

George Gwaze will again stand trial for the murder of his 10 year-old niece after the Crown successfully won an appeal in the Supreme Court today.

Maka Renata, a sex offender who was coached to stalk and rape by his uncle is on the run after breaching his parole conditions a second time.

Police investigating the brutal sexual assault of a woman by four men in Tokoroa last weekend have not yet made any arrests.

A teen was abducted from a street in a small Hawke's Bay town and driven to a remote field where she sexually assaulted by two masked men.

Controversial former cop Clint Rickards is working at the same courthouse where the woman who accused him of rape assists crime victims.

A 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by two men in Dannevirke last night, then left in a paddock.

A Christchurch teenager made a false rape complaint because she liked the attention, a court has heard.

A gang member is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman who says she was able to escape after drugging his coffee with codeine.

The filmmaker said yesterday that the US is demanding his extradition from Switzerland on a 33-year-old sex case largely to serve him "on a platter to the media".

Sexual abuse survivors plan a protest over changes to subsidised counselling - which they say are putting lives at risk.