A nurse abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted by a paroled prisoner says she feels betrayed by the Corrections Department because it did not tell her he was a sex offender.

Two years after escaping her underground prison, she lives in a brightly painted house in a tiny hamlet referred to as "Village X".

One of NZ's most dangerous sex criminals attacked two women while on parole and under Corrections Department supervision.

A 5-year-old and two 6-year-old boys were apprehended by police for sexual assault last year.

Today, a 19 year old Taupo man was jailed for throwing a three month old baby, who wouldn't stop crying, onto the floor, causing life-threatening head injuries.

Questions have been raised about the monitoring of the online activity of sex offenders, after a murder in Britain.

A jury has heard allegations against an Auckland primary schoolteacher accused of grooming a male pupil for sex.

A New Zealand man who tried to rape a young girl after travelling to England to try to save his marriage has been sentenced to 15 and a half years in jail.

The adoptive parents of Anitelea Chan Kee - murderer of liquor store owner Navtej Singh - were jailed for horrific sexual and physical abuse of their niece.

Police and Corrections are investigating claims that NZ's youngest convicted killer groped two Herald on Sunday journalists.