Missouri teenager Daisy Coleman and her best friend were sexually assaulted in 2012. Five years later, Daisy is on a mission to help other rape victims.

Keeping young people from a life of crime involves education and housing as well as police, Bill English tells Auckland crowd.

Hard to imagine a "harder or faster" fall from grace than that of Rolf Harris, says defence counsel. .

A UK teenager who woke to find her sexual assault had been live streamed on Snapchat has slammed her attacker's soft sentence.

A transgender man has admitted violating another man while he was walking home after a night out.

These are the high points from Labour and Greens' State of the Nation speeches this afternoon.

Girl gang members who tied footballer down and sexually humiliated him with vegetables and scissors have been jailed.

Over a year the 27-year-old teacher paid more than $28k - unwittingly, to the 14-year-old she was sleeping with.

As children prepare to return to school this week, West Auckland parents have spoken out about their frustrations with the hunt for a sexual offender.

A Sydney Uber driver has pleaded not guilty to having sexual intercourse without consent with an intoxicated 22-year-old British nanny.

A UK mother-of-three has been jailed for three years after she slept with a teenage boy when he texted her asking: "Would you like to have sex?"

Grace Packer became a foster child at age 3. At age 14, she suffered a slow and painful death at the hands of those she was meant to trust.

It was love at first sight when adult movie actress Christy Mack and notorious fighter War Machine met. But it wasn't long before things took a very dark turn.

A 16-year-old boy has been arrested and charged over an alleged sex attack on a woman in Gisborne on New Year's Day.

A top Sydney lawyer who used to work for a Kiwi law firm has been accused of indecent assault.

DEBORAH HILL CONE COMMENT: I know my father loved me. It just didn't feel like he did. I recently came across an old photo he took of me.

What's on your bucket list? Kim Knight meets Eva McGauley, the terminally ill teenager who is devoting the rest of her life to the victims of sexual assault.

A man guilty of a shocking sex attack will today learn if he faces preventive detention.

The acting coach accused of sex offences was teaching a woman to be "an actor, not a porn star", says the defence.

Sex charges against well-known actor 'made up' after pair's affair ended, claims defence.

A child rapist has been jailed a decade after his crime when a mother realised what he did to her daughter while cleaning her room.

An international student in New Zealand has been accused of raping two high school girls on the same night.

There have been two more reports of attempted child abductions in West Auckland, as police continue to hunt for the man responsible for the assault of an 11-year-old boy.

Police are today knocking on doors of homes near where a 11-year-old boy was abducted in West Auckland almost two weeks ago.

Woman thought the man kissing her and biting her neck in the dead of night was her partner. It wasn't.

A man asked a 12-year-old walking home to get inside his ute in Ranui - the latest report of strangers approaching children in the area.

A British woman who was arrested after she was allegedly gang-raped in Dubai last night said: 'The truth will out'.

Two brave Auckland sisters have waived their rights to automatic name suppression so their abuser can be identified.

On the surface Todd Kohlhepp was a polished real estate agent but disturbing details about the 45-year-old's past criminal history have now emerged.

Todd Kohlhepp was also arrested for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1986, when he was 15.