A sexual abuse trial was aborted after a juror revealed he became aroused while listening to evidence from the alleged victims.

A jury fins a 35-year-old man guilty of raping a 13-year-old in west Auckland and forcing her to smoke cannabis.

A study of 29 children who lived in Auckland's controversial Centrepoint Community has found continuing effects on their adult lives.

Details of a young girl's ordeal and that of two others were revealed during the sentencing of their attacker, Keith Stewart Luke.

The man convicted of the 2008 rape and murder of Christchurch schoolgirl Marie Davis says it could not be proved he murdered her.

A High Court jury today watched a video interview with a 13-year-old girl who said she was forced to smoke cannabis before being raped in the bushes of an Auckland park last year.

Police fear a sexual predator is stalking the streets of Auckland's premier nightlife district after attacks on two women in the early hours.

Rapist Maka Renata is arrested in Gisborne after almost a month on the run.

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

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.