Police failed to responsibly handle a sexual assault complaint made against a hospital security guard, an IPCA report has found.

A Saudi historian has sparked outrage by claiming Western women drive cars because they do not care if they are “raped by the roadside”.

An army recruit felt pressured to perform sexual acts with an instructor as a way of helping her platoon, a court martial has heard today.

A victim of a former air force sergeant convicted of abuse and rape over a 12-year period has slammed the Defence Force for its inaction.

A Defence Force instructor stripped to his underwear, called a female recruit into his room and told her "he wanted to thrash me", a court martial has heard today.

A member of the army who has accused a more senior non-commissioned officer of offences against her testified at a court martial.

A non-commissioned officer of the Defence Force has pleaded not guilty to six sex offence charges, but admitted another six charges at a Court Martial today.

A 33-year-old man has reappeared in the Palmerston North District Court this morning on charges after two home-invasion sexual attacks.

The wife of Hollywood executive Alan Ladd Jr has become the latest woman to accuse Bill Cosby of sexual assault: 'I didn't discuss it with anyone for 36 years.'

A woman abused by a businessman says victims of sexual abuse should be able to choose whether to have their identity suppressed, rather than having it automatically applied.

A North Shore woman who bought her 14-year-old daughter a bottle of vodka and took her to her boyfriend's house while his parents were away has been fined.

You might think of them as grubby types, wearing trench coats in darkened corners of public parks. But as several NZ cases show, the stereotype might need updating.

Former glam rock singer Gary Glitter crept into a schoolgirl's bed and tried to rape her at the height of his fame, a London court has heard.

Paedophile singer Ian Watkins made a sex tape with a girlfriend where they spoke of his sickening fantasies of child abuse, a court heard.

Police investigating sex crime allegations against a teacher long presumed dead before being found in rural New Zealand have returned to Australia to prepare a report for a prosecutor.

It is the most extraordinary story of sex, power, influence and the abuse of young girls and it has already sent Jeffrey Epstein, one of the richest men in America, to jail.

Former Catholic brother Bernard McGrath will be extradited to Australia to face 252 child sex-abuse charges.

Police have released a sketch drawing of a man alleged to have raped and beaten a 16-year-old girl in Auckland, before dropping her in the Auckland Zoo car park.

The results of a ministerial inquiry into the case of a Malaysian diplomat who left the country with immunity are "disappointing", Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Bill Cosby's wife has defended her husband in the face mounting allegations of sexual misconduct and condemned the way he's been portrayed in the media.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called on social networks to do more to tackle gender inequality online.

When the call came, a friend, a University of Virginia freshman who earlier said she had a date that evening with a handsome junior from her chemistry class, was in hysterics

An international police inquiry may begin into a retired teacher living in New Zealand who is at the centre of allegations of child abuse at a Tasmanian school in the 1960s.

Alcohol-fuelled Christmas parties lead to a spike in work sexual harassment reports, Australian police say.

The partner of a retired teacher at the centre of child abuse allegations at a Tasmanian school in the 1960s has defended him today.

A former teacher living in New Zealand has denied a child abuse claim made at an Australian inquiry.