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Clint Rickards, lawyer, heads back to court
Controversial former cop Clint Rickards is working at the same courthouse where the woman who accused him of rape assists crime victims.
Teen sex assault victim left in paddock
A 16-year-old girl was allegedly sexually assaulted by two men in Dannevirke last night, then left in a paddock.
Woman admits making up rape claim
A Christchurch teenager made a false rape complaint because she liked the attention, a court has heard.
Woman drugged kidnapper to flee, court told
A gang member is accused of kidnapping and raping a woman who says she was able to escape after drugging his coffee with codeine.
Polanski breaks silence over US extradition case
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 to challenge ACC changes
Sexual abuse survivors plan a protest over changes to subsidised counselling - which they say are putting lives at risk.
Sting nets child porn gatekeeper
The target had no idea what was about to burst in on him. He was on his computer, which held thousands of child sex files.
Salvation Army called to apologise for historic abuse cases
People who were abused in Salvation Army homes as long as 70 years ago say they're still waiting for a public apology.
Girl sexually assaulted by late night intruder
Police are hunting a man who they say sexually assaulted a 13-year-old Napier girl as she slept in her bed late last night.
Gang member beat and raped partner, court told
The partner of a gang member accused of beating her was declared a hostile witness after refusing to repeat her complaint in court.
Denied help for sexual abuse, dead days later
A mother died four days after her claim for ACC-funded counselling for sex abuse was rejected.
Pope poised to make historic apology
Pope Benedict XVI is planning to make the first general apology for the abuse of children and minors, Vatican sources say.
Serial sex attacker jailed indefinitely
'You pose a risk to women in almost any situation where they are alone,' a judge told a repeat sex attacker.
$19,000 penalty for sex-pest baker with floury hands
A baker who sexually harassed his female assistant must pay her $19,000.
White-handed baker fined for sexual harassment
A baker was fined after it was found he had left flour-smudged handprints on his female assistant's clothes.
Teacher not guilty of sex assault
A teacher has been cleared of sex charges against a teenage girl in one of his classes eight years ago.
Emotions flow at killer's sentencing
Seven years passed before police could match a DNA sample to Joseph Reekers.