R. Kelly has been charged with 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in Cook County, Illinois.
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For victims of sexual abuse, mere moments can affect lifetimes, and short windows can predicate decades. When the New York state legislature passed The Child Victims Act last month, the bill ushered in a new era for victims of child sexual abuse and sexual misconduct.
With survivors of sexual abuse in attendance, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, flanked by lawmakers and victims' advocates, signed into law the Child Victims Act, ending a 13-year fight and decades of personal pain for many.
In another blow to USC's student health clinic, six male graduates filed a lawsuit this week accusing a men's health doctor of sexual battery and harassment during appointments.
USC will institute campus-wide reforms to prevent and report sexual and racial misconduct under terms of a settlement agreement filed Tuesday resolving claims related to former campus gynecologist Dr. George Tyndall.
A day after Pope Francis publicly admitted for the first time that clerics had sexually abused nuns, promising to tackle the issue that was "still going on" within the Catholic Church, two former female members of the Church have spoken about their experiences with the BBC.
Pope Francis has for the first time publicly acknowledged the scandal of priests and bishops sexually abusing nuns, and says he is committed to doing more to fight the problem.
More than a decade after Lehman collapsed, six women who worked at the bank's subprime-mortgage unit are still accusing a former colleague of sexual harassment -- and still waiting for answers.
The 15 Catholic dioceses of Texas are set to release the names of clergy members "credibly accused" of sexually abusing minors on Thursday.
The New York State Legislature passed a bill on Monday that will increase the statute of limitations for cases of child sexual abuse.
Nearly 100 women — from Gwyneth Paltrow to Salma Hayek — have since come forward with their stories of how the burly, brash and bullying co-head of The Weinstein Company (and formerly of Miramax) reportedly engaged in inappropriate behavior against their will. (Weinstein, 66, is currently awaiting trial).
Police have charged a male nurse with sexual assault and abuse of a vulnerable adult less than a month after a woman in a vegetative state unexpectedly gave birth at a health-care facility in Phoenix.
An elite all-boys private school in suburban Maryland revealed that seven of its alumni have reported sexual abuse by a longtime teacher, more than 50 years after the alleged acts.
It's the stuff of nightmares: Your loved one, who you thought was being well cared for in a long-term care facility or nursing home, was physically abused, raped or even impregnated.
Even in the age of #MeToo, when many women finally feel empowered to speak out against abuse, sexual assault by gynecologists remains an underreported and little understood problem.
In November 2018, 20,000 Google employees across the globe walked out in protest to our company's policies around equity and transparency in the workplace.
State investigators in Arizona are examining $3.4 million in possible Medicaid fraud at the parent company of a Phoenix nursing center where a woman in a vegetative state was raped and gave birth to a boy in December, according to court records.
For decades, R. Kelly has enjoyed astronomical fame despite consistent and disturbing claims that he has sexually, mentally and physically abused teenage girls.
Ashley Judd's multi-pronged legal battle against Harvey Weinstein came to a bit of a crossroads on Wednesday.
The police collected the DNA of male employees of a private nursing home in Arizona on Tuesday as they continued to investigate allegations that a woman in a vegetative state there who gave birth to a child last month had been sexually assaulted, the nursing home's parent company said.
