A Utah girl believed to have been kidnapped into sex slavery has been found and returned home a day after her mother's emotional plea to get her daughter back.

Forty-one sexual assault and harassment complaints were lodged in the New Zealand Defence Force - including one for sexual violation/rape in 2016.

Amanda Knox has written a detailed account of how a lesbian inmate tried to seduce her during her years behind bars.

Police have arrested and charged a man with indecent assault and burglary after an incident at a Hamilton house on Saturday night.

Warning: Distressing material. An Australian teen who took her own life after being bullied and raped wrote a powerful warning letter to her peers.

Riots have broken out in France after a black man was sexually assaulted by police - who claim it was an accident.

A rape survivor and her attacker have reunited to tell their story.

The luxury life while on the run of alleged child torturer and Peter Scully's assistant Liezyl Margallo has been revealed following her arrest. WARNING: GRAPHIC

A well-known Kiwi actor is to appear in court today after more sexual assault charges were laid against him.

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

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.

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.