Swiss authorities have arrested film director Roman Polanski for having sex in 1977 with a 13-year-old girl.

Ronald Bruce Vautier has lost an appeal against his two-year sentence for sexually abusing three young girls.

Police have made contact with model Katie Price over claims that she was raped by an unnamed celebrity.

Katie Price has phoned a live TV programme to say she will never name the 'famous celebrity' who allegedly raped her.

Police allege the youth raped a 19-year-old Auckland woman three times between August 22 and August 23.

A 20-year-old NZ woman was viciously attacked by three men she met on a bus after partying.

A French man who wanted to experience "the real New Zealand" was abducted and raped while travelling alone on a rural backroad.

A Wanganui man is jailed for violating a woman with a metal kitchen implement.

A school for some of the country's most difficult children faces closure after assault charges against three recent staff members.

The man who held a US girl captive for 18 years is now under investigation for a string of unsolved murders.

A jury finds a teenage boy not guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl outside a 16th birthday party on the Kapiti Coast last year.

Jaycee Lee Dugard was held captive in a backyard compound for 18 years.

Demands for second opinion would have added to claimants' trauma, says critic.