A court hears a Coronation Street star raped a young girl as she clutched a teddy bear, telling her that if she told anyone about the abuse "you'll die".

Rolf Harris has maintained his silence after being charged with 13 child sex offences in the UK including the indecent assault of two teenage girls in the 1980s.

Former Radio 1 DJ Dave Lee Travis will deny sex crimes spanning 30 years against nine women and a teenage girl, a court was told yesterday.

Paedophile teacher James Parker's case was described as the worst of its kind in New Zealand history, so why did he get a minimum non-parole period of only seven years?

James Parker subjected 24 young boys to prolonged and depraved abuse.

James Parker "stoutly denied" any wrongdoing during a 2009 police interview when a boy complained he had been sexually abused by the former deputy school principal.

Paedophile school teacher James Parker has been sentenced to preventive detention in an emotionally-charged sentencing before his victims.

The Norwegian woman at the centre of a Dubai rape claim dispute says officials have dropped her 16-month sentence for sex outside of marriage.

A Chinese mother locked up in a labour camp for demanding justice over the rape, kidnap and prostitution of her 11-year-old daughter said this week that her battle against the authorities was far from over.

Friends of a Taranaki teenager who was abducted and sexually assaulted by a group of men are trying to support her through the ordeal.

Seven members of a gang which groomed girls as young as 12 and subjected them to "dreadful" sexual abuse over the course of eight years have been sentenced to at least 95 years in prison.

In Lucknow, 25-year-old teacher Usha Vishwakarma is leading her "Red Brigade" gang of teenage girls in mixed martial arts training.

Britain's Attorney-General is to review the 15-month jail sentence given to Stuart Hall, the disgraced BBC presenter, for a 20-year campaign of sexual abuse against young girls.

Diners who only watched as Nigella Lawson was assaulted were probably influenced by the "bystander effect" - and it's at play daily in NZ.

Louise Nicholas, who alleged that police officers raped her while she was a teenager, says she has "gone full circle" in helping police deal with victims of sexual assault.

Mark Bridger was an alcoholic paedophile who was infatuated with young girls and who lived out violent sexual fantasies through the internet.

Convicted sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson has had his bid for a judicial review of his parole conditions dismissed - because he has already been sent back to jail.