Michelle Hanley, the child protection officer with Football NSW, said yesterday she would like to see checks applied to everybody.

Baptiste says Goguen sexually abused her for more than a decade and then reneged on an agreement to pay her $40 million to halt a personal injury lawsuit.

Sir Cliff Richard has threatened to sue the BBC for broadcasting archive footage of him with Jimmy Savile on Top Of The Pops.

"Unacceptable and insidious" harassment by Dunedin students has hit breaking point and the University of Otago needs to take action, residents say.

Donald Trump denied accusations of gender-based workplace discrimination and sexual harassment from a former campaign employee in Iowa.

Corrections could be banned from this year's Pride Parade following controversy over the treatment of transgender prisoners.

11 permits refused in the past months alone due to sex offences, but agency says most of those new applicants.

OPINION: As your summer festivities reach full swing, so too does the familiar, hand wringing debate about young women's attire, writes Beatrice Hazlehurst.

A British MP suspended from the Labour Party for sending salacious text messages to a 17-year-old girl is under fire from one ex-wife.

Islamic law forbids the enslavement of Muslims, but all that did was to encourage a roaring trade in the enslavement of non-Muslims that lasted for over a thousand years, writes Gwynne Dyer.

When a diplomatic row broke out between New Zealand and Malaysia last year, the sexual assault victim at the centre of it all got lost in the noise.

Brutal cross-examination process in criminal trials has been acknowledged as a key reason why sexual violence victims receive so little justice in the legal system, writes Catriona MacLennan.

The five each face a charge of unlawful sexual connection involving girls aged 14 and 15.

A man charged with a violent sex attack on a prostitute in Canada has appeared in the Palmerston North District Court.

From rowdy motorcyles to silence wordless marches, crowds gathered around the country yesterday to call for an end to domestic violence.

Secondary Principals' Association executive discussed fresh incidents involving schoolboys and shocking posts on social media with police last week.

A Hawke's Bay medical practitioner is still practising in spite of being accused of stupefying young men and indecently assaulting them.

Police have let school boys off with warnings after they performed lewd acts on drunk girls and posted pictures online.

Police are warning of the dangers of unlicensed taxi services after a man was sentenced for indecently assaulting a female passenger he took for a ride.

Police search for three males who were in a white van with dark tinted windows.

The transgender community says the inmate is not getting enough support and needs better protection.

A police investigation has begun into claims that a prisoner was raped while locked in overnight at a privately run men's prison in South Auckland.

The sister of the man murdered by Phillip Smith says nobody has been properly held to account for his escape, and politicians were "all ducking their heads".

Corruption charges have been laid against the prison guard who Phillip John Smith claimed helped him escape to Brazil.

A taxi driver tasked with driving special needs students to and from school has been jailed after repeatedly indecently assaulting a vulnerable teenager.

Deported sex offender Michael Andrew Bell was arrested on the tarmac of Heathrow Airport on the suspicion of a historic rape.

Lizzie Marvelly explains the genesis of her brave viral video counter-attack on revenge porn.

Kiwi singer Lizzy Marvelly is behind a campaign hoping to shift attitudes about consent and sexual violence.