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".

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.

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.

'You pose a risk to women in almost any situation where they are alone,' a judge told a repeat sex attacker.

A baker who sexually harassed his female assistant must pay her $19,000.

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.