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Australian sentenced to 129 years in PH child sex abuse case

Allison Jackson and Mikhail Flores, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Nov 09 02:37 PM

An Australian man has been sentenced to 129 years in a Philippine jail as part of a child sexual abuse case involving victims as young as 18 months, a prosecutor said. Read more »

UK man found guilty of sexually abusing Filipino minors

Joefer Tacardon, ABS-CBN Europe News Bureau
Updated as of Mar 15 09:32 AM

According to a statement released by Cleveland Police, Mark Page used a webcam to contact the victims and travelled to the Philippines to meet them. Read more »

Spain investigating child abuse allegations by clergy

Reuters
Posted at Feb 17 06:21 AM

Allegations of child abuse by Catholic clergy and of possible cover-ups by the church are only surfacing now in Spain. Read more »

Accuser says Quiboloy camp avoiding issues in sex abuse claims

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Feb 07 10:12 PM

A woman who claims to be a sex trafficking victim of Philippine religious leader Pastor Apollo Quiboloy dares the lawyer of her alleged abuser to confront her. Read more »

German cardinal urges lifting celibacy rule for priests

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Feb 03 06:19 AM

A cardinal, whose archdiocese was the subject of a report into child sex abuses, said he was in favor of lifting the celibacy requirement for priests. Read more »

Pope expresses 'shame' at French sex abuse scandal

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 06 05:10 PM

Pope Francis on Wednesday expressed his 'shame' at the sexual abuse of children by French Catholic clergy, laid bare in a devastating report this week. Read more »

French Catholic Church probe finds 216,000 sex abuse victims

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 05 08:07 PM

The report found that the majority of victims were pre-adolescent boys from a wide variety of social backgrounds. Read more »

Some 3,000 pedophiles in French Church since 1950: probe

Karine Perret, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 03 06:42 PM

Some 3,000 paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, the head of an independent commission investigating the scandal told AFP days ahead of the release of its report. Read more »

R. Kelly found guilty on all counts in sex abuse trial

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 28 08:54 AM

One of the 1990s' brightest stars whose hits included "I Believe I Can Fly," Kelly faces up to life in prison. His sentencing is scheduled for May 4. Read more »

Prosecutors rest case against R. Kelly after month of testimony

Tyler Clifford, Reuters
Posted at Sep 21 11:27 AM

US prosecutors on Monday rested their sex trafficking case against R. Kelly, after a month of often disturbing and graphic testimony from people who accused the R&B star of sexually abusing women and girls. Read more »

Pope Francis opens conference on child sex abuse ‘crisis’

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 20 06:31 PM

Pope Francis on Sunday opened a Vatican conference on child sex abuse by the clergy in Central and Eastern Europe by urging participants to brainstorm 'concrete pathways of reform'. Read more »

'R. Kelly demanded oral sex before granting audition'

Brendan Pierson, Reuters
Posted at Aug 24 09:20 AM

A former girlfriend of R. Kelly told jurors Monday that he pressured her into having oral sex with him when she was 17. Read more »

Singer R. Kelly appears in NY court before sex abuse trial begins

Reuters
Posted at Aug 04 07:16 AM

Aug 3 (Reuters) - Singer R. Kelly appeared in a New York City courtroom on Tuesday for a hearing, just days before his sex abuse trial is due to begin. Read more »

34 women sue Pornhub in sex abuse video, trafficking case

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jun 18 08:03 PM

Nearly three dozen women have filed a lawsuit in California against adult video website Pornhub, accusing it and its parent company of knowingly profiting from footage depicting rape and sexual exploitation, including of minors. Read more »

Singer R. Kelly tells judge he fired two defense lawyers as trial looms

Tom Hals, Reuters
Posted at Jun 10 06:55 AM

R. Kelly told a federal judge on Wednesday that he fired two of his defense lawyers, exposing deep rifts in the singer's legal defense team ahead of his August sex abuse trial in New York. Read more »

Senate approves tougher measure to combat online sexual abuse of minors

ABS-CBN News
Posted at May 27 07:04 PM

Senators on Thursday approved on final reading a tougher measure against online sexual abuse and exploitation of minors. Read more »

Macron says France's laws on child sex abuse must change

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Jan 24 09:04 AM

French President Emmanuel Macron said Saturday the law had to change to better protect victims of child sexual abuse, after thousands shared their stories in response to a newly published book. Read more »

South Korea sex abuse group leader jailed for 40 years

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 26 04:06 PM

The mastermind of a notorious online sex abuse ring was jailed for 40 years in South Korea on Thursday. Read more »

New Vatican manual advises bishops to report sex abuse claims to police

Ella Ide, Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Jul 17 03:03 AM

The Vatican released guidelines Thursday for bishops and other senior church officials on how to deal with clerical child sex abuse claims, after Pope Francis called for the procedures to be laid out step-by-step. Read more »