Child Sexual Abuse

A jury returns majority guilty verdicts in the trial of Geoff Guest, 99, who has an Order of Australia Medal for his youth work.

South Australia's attorney-general has applied to have convicted paedophile and former magistrate Peter Liddy jailed indefinitely.

A man who taught gymnastics at an all-boys Catholic school in the Riverina has been sentenced to three years in prison for historical child sex offences.  

A man found guilty of sexually abusing his stepdaughters wins a retrial because a "serious breach" by a prosecutor resulted in a "miscarriage of justice". 

A Chinese national intending to study early childhood education in Australia has had his visa cancelled after Australian Border Force officers checked his baggage at Adelaide Airport and allegedly found "21 videos deemed to be child abuse material".

The judge decided a witness's "inadmissible" response under cross-examination in the trial of Geoffrey John Guest left her with no choice but to discharge the jury the day after it had been empanelled.

Geoffrey John Guest is standing trial in Cairns after being charged with the abuse of a child in the 1970s.

A man has avoided time behind bars and instead been handed a three-year community corrections order for possessing 34,000 child abuse images and more than a dozen bestiality videos.

Michael Brian Becton, 33, is handed a 24-and-a-half year prison term after pleading guilty to 77 child sexual offences against children and babies. WARNING: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing.

A bill reversing a High Court decision that found the Catholic Church could not be sued for the actions of a priest passes unopposed through Victoria's upper house.

A 33-year-old man is expected to face an Adelaide court on Friday, after a teenage girl was allegedly sexually assaulted on a public bus earlier this week.

The Greens will push for Tasmania's parliament to scrutinise how police handled child abuse allegations against former officer Paul Reynolds, and why it was decided to give him a full police funeral.

"A regular sort of bloke" is how one of Jason Forbes's neighbours described the 39-year-old electrician — but behind the walls of his unassuming home in Perth's suburbs, he was hiding a dark secret.

A once well-regarded soccer coach has been handed a 12 month jail sentence for possessing child abuse material, after a Sydney court heard he has been disowned by family members.

WA Police say "something terrible" could have happened if there was a delay in intercepting a Baldivis man who planned to abduct and sexually abuse a child in Perth.

A man appears in court after police officers seize a mobile and laptop with allegedly more than 125,000 files of child abuse material.

A Perth man who planned to abduct and abuse a child, having scoped out schools and childcare centres and researched restraint methods, is jailed for seven years. Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find distressing. 

Powerful socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was able to exploit her connections to recruit, groom, and abuse dozens of young girls. Now, she faces a fresh interrogation over her role in Jeffrey Epstein's abuse.

The government puts popular social gaming site Roblox on notice following media reports of children being approached and groomed by predators on the platform.

A student who was allegedly raped by a Hobart teacher in the 1980s was told to focus on her studies after raising concerns with the teacher's behaviour, a court has heard.