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.

People who were abused in Salvation Army homes as long as 70 years ago say they're still waiting for a public apology.

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.

The partner of a gang member accused of beating her was declared a hostile witness after refusing to repeat her complaint in court.

A mother died four days after her claim for ACC-funded counselling for sex abuse was rejected.

Pope Benedict XVI is planning to make the first general apology for the abuse of children and minors, Vatican sources say.

A baker was fined after it was found he had left flour-smudged handprints on his female assistant's clothes.

A teacher has been cleared of sex charges against a teenage girl in one of his classes eight years ago.

Seven years passed before police could match a DNA sample to Joseph Reekers.