Sexual Offences

Two men are on trial in the Northern Territory Supreme Court, accused of sexually assaulting a young woman in her apartment for eight hours after picking her up on a night out while she was waiting for an Uber.

An image appearing to show Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and the sacked UK ambassador to Washington, Peter Mandelson, with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein has been uncovered in the latest document dump released by the US DOJ.

Supreme Court judge rules convictions should have been recorded against a teenager who entered a Mackay home and molested a girl in her bedroom.

The wife of Barry Cable, the former footballer on trial for allegedly sexually abusing a child in the early stages of his illustrious career, testifies in defence of her famous husband.

Former footballer Barry Cable sexually assaulted children in a backyard spa in Melbourne at a time when he was a "famous" figure, a court has heard.

Ex-Australian football Hall of Famer Barry Cable picked up a girl from an orphanage in Perth and sexually abused her multiple times in the 1960s, a court has been told.

A jury has cleared former NSW Liberal MP Rory Amon of the majority of charges he faced over the alleged sexual assault of a 13-year-old boy he met through a hook-up app in 2017.

A review into SES member experiences hears allegations of sexual harassment, stalking and pockets of "boys' clubs" operating throughout the state. 

A "plucky pensioner" from a cancelled Australian Story episode is a convicted child sex offender who has failed to pay his victim more than $385,000 in civil damages.

Gisèle Pelicot is the woman at the centre of France's most infamous mass rape trial who chose to waive anonymity and became a global icon in the fight against sexual violence.

Investigators release a computer-generated image of a man they want to speak to about a sexual assault at Reservoir in December.

A woman who once taught at a Sydney school pleads guilty to the sexual abuse of two students.

Rory Amon's sexual assault trial nears a conclusion, with the Crown prosecutor saying the complainant's evidence was believable, plausible, consistent and resilient in the face of cross-examination.

The US Department of Justice, the FBI and New York City forensic experts might have moved on from the possibility Jeffrey Epstein did not take his own life, but many have not, and now suspicions around his death have gone mainstream.

According to the Crown's case, the teenager was sexually and indecently assaulted in the toilet of an underground car park during two encounters in mid-2017.

A man accused of holding a woman captive until she fled naked into a Canberra street is found guilty in the ACT Supreme Court.

Many of Donald Trump's supporters wanted to send those implicated in Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking ring "off to the gallows", but then the president changed his mind about releasing the files. What followed was an unusual political manoeuvre, acts of immense bravery by survivors and a backflip by the president of the United States.

Current and former NSW prison officers describe what they say is a toxic workplace culture and a system that shields officers accused of serious misconduct, rather than holding them accountable. They argue it has driven younger officers out of the service.

The former US president is being questioned by the House Oversight Committee, which is looking into the US government's handling of the Epstein case. 

Former Liberal MP Rory Amon has told a jury the complainant in his sexual assault trial told him he was 17 before they discussed meeting up.