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 man accused of rape and sexual violence charges stripped naked when he appeared in a Christchurch court.

COMMENT: After the news of a father and daughter having an incestuous relationship, it's clear the overwhelming issue is surely one of mental health.

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.

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.

Aaron Gilmore was sexually abused when he was just 12. When he reported it, police told him they didn't know what the crime was.

Posing as a 14-year-old, Australian father lures paedophiles into the open and posts footage of them online.

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.

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.

A London financial district lawyer allegedly called a woman an "Australian s--t" and slapped her on the bottom.

Survivor advocate Louise Nicholas says she was "gutted" by Paul Henry's latest comments about women.

When police searched Alec Cook's flat, they found as many as 20 leather-bound notebooks containing disturbing sexual desires and "kill" statements.

Sexual violence courts aim to reduce trauma for victims.

"That is not the man I know," Melania Trump tells CNN in interview response to her husband's infamous comments.

COMMENT: Blaming Clinton for her husband's conduct is an example of just how little respect her rival has for women.

Adults being sentenced for sex offences against children, will now have to face the Judge as to whether they should go on the register.