Sexual Offences

Adelaide businessman Solomon Farah is accused of indecently assaulting a dozen women during job interviews, with a prosecutor telling an Adelaide court there may be more than 70 victims in total.

The 42-year-old used a school-issued iPad to take pictures of the girls' while they attended his classes, with the alarm being raised by other students who noticed it.

A victim of a former husband and wife who had sex with underage employees who worked at their family-owned bakery in regional South Australia in the 1980s has spoken of her "soul-destroying" suffering, saying her abusers "destroyed my adolescence".

The 72-year-old is facing a retrial, likely in September, after a court finding that "prior bad acts" testimony violated his right to a fair trial.

Christopher Patrick Farrell, a Tasmanian man who was caught with "depraved and vile" child abuse material that he often sourced while under the influence of illicit drugs, has been sentenced to seven years in prison.

The Federal Court resumed to consider costs in Bruce Lehrmann's failed defamation case against Network Ten and journalist Lisa Wilkinson. Look back at what happened in our live blog.

A Canberra-based victim of alleged sexual assault calls for more support, after the Sexual Assault (Police) Review found the ACT had both the highest rate of sexual assault cases not proceeding to prosecution and the highest number of sexual assault victims withdrawing their complaints of any jurisdiction.

The French actor will be on trial in October over allegations he assaulted a woman in 2014 and another in 2021.

Young people and women are particularly at risk, with work and personal emails or phones most commonly used by perpetrators. 

The fundamentalist sect is known by a variety of names including the Two by Twos, The Church With No Name, The Truth and The Way, and has about 8,000 followers across Australia.

It's been more than a decade since Saxon Mullins accused a man of raping her behind his father's nightclub in Kings Cross. Since then she's learned a lot about endurance — and the life-saving power of pop music.

The Bucharest Tribunal has ruled the prosecutors' case file against online influencer Andrew Tate met the legal criteria, but did not set a date for the trial to begin.

A 34-year-old man who worked at a catholic school in northern Tasmania has been charged with child sex offences following a police investigation.

Canberra massage therapist Timothy Van Eyle was found guilty of committing an act of indecency after fondling a client's breasts in 2019, but was later cleared after a successful appeal. Five years after the events Van Eyle has been sentenced to ten months jail for the incident.

The ruling by a New York high court has been called a major step back for survivors of sexual abuse, with some fearing it could deter other victims from coming forward in similar cases.

Hunter Valley teacher Daniel Raymond Belcher has his case heard for the first time, accused of offences between June and December last year.

Weinstein's successful appeal is a blow to the #MeToo movement against powerful men who prey on vulnerable women. And a New York judge warns it's set a precedent that will help serial sexual predators.

A man who repeatedly raped a young girl after breaking into her home in an ordeal lasting hours is released into the community because he is unfit to plead to the charges against him.

Gaye Grant has been sentenced to at least three years and four months in prison after she admitted to having a sexual relationship with a boy between 1977 and 1979.

Senator Linda Reynolds sues her former political staffer Brittany Higgins and Ms Higgins's partner David Sharaz for defamation over a series of social media posts — and neither side appears willing to back down. 

Former rock climbing coach Stephen Mitchell is serving more than 13 years behind bars for offences against six girls.

A glitch in legislation means convicted sex offender Stephen Mitchell's prison sentence is likely to be slashed. The women at the centre of the case are lobbying the ACT government to ensure the same thing doesn't happen to others.

Bruce Lerhmann's defamation case has exposed a continuing hostility to women in the broader Australian community which has seen women too eagerly cast as liars, whatever the nature of the issue that has brought them to public attention.

Leonard Gardiner has denied all charges from his time as a teacher at The Armidale School in the 1960s.

Seven jury members are selected on the second day of Donald Trump's trial at the Manhattan Criminal Court where he is charged with falsifying business records to cover up a sex scandal.