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Milwaukee woman jailed for 11 years for killing her abuser

August 20, 2024 World Justice News 0

A Milwaukee woman has been jailed for 11 years for killing the man that prosecutors said had sex trafficked her as a teenager. The sentence, issued on Monday, ends a six-year legal battle for Chrystul […]

Rotherham child abuse gang leader sentenced for further rape of young girl

May 25, 2024 World Justice News 0

The ringleader of a gang that sexually exploited children in Rotherham has been sentenced again, after a new victim came forward. Mohammed Imran Ali Akhtar, 42, was charged as part of Operation Stovewood, a series […]

Disgraced singer Gary Glitter refused jail release

February 7, 2024 World Justice News 0

Convicted sex offender Gary Glitter will remain behind bars after losing a Parole Board bid. Glitter, whose real name is Paul Gadd, was jailed for 16 years in 2015 for sexually abusing three schoolgirls between […]

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E Jean Carroll trial: Judge threatens to remove Trump from court

January 18, 2024 World Justice News 0

Donald Trump’s lawyers accused E Jean Carroll of courting publicity on Wednesday, as she said her reputation was left “shattered” after accusing him of sexual assault in the 1990s. The second day of the civil […]

Sex offender Larry Nassar stabbed multiple times in prison

July 10, 2023 World Justice News 0

Former US national gymnastics team doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed multiple times in prison on Sunday during a fight with another inmate, the BBC’s US partner CBS News reports. Nassar, 59, was sentenced to up […]

Donald Trump sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll, civil trial jury finds

May 9, 2023 World Justice News 0

Donald Trump has been found liable of battery and defamation, after a civil trial jury found he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll in the 1990s. The jury rejected the rape claim but awarded the […]

Madeleine McCann suspect charged with separate sex offences

October 11, 2022 World Justice News 0

The prime suspect in the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has been charged in Germany with unrelated sexual offences. Convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner is accused of five offences between 2000 and 2017 in Portugal. German […]

Ghislaine Maxwell: Juror admits ‘mistake’ not revealing abuse

March 9, 2022 World Justice News 0

A juror in Ghislaine Maxwell’s sex abuse trial has told a hearing it was an “inadvertent mistake”, not a lie, to fail to disclose on a questionnaire that he was an abuse victim himself. Maxwell […]

University of California in $250m payout for doctor’s sex abuse

February 9, 2022 World Justice News 0

The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $250m (£185m) to over 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus gynaecologist. Multiple women accuse the university’s Los Angeles site (UCLA) of […]

David Fuller: Killer who abused mortuary bodies will die in jail

December 15, 2021 World Justice News 0

A double murderer who sexually abused more than 100 female corpses will never be released from prison. David Fuller, 67, killed Wendy Knell and Caroline Pierce in two separate attacks in Tunbridge Wells in 1987. […]

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Nigerian court orders UK to pay £420m over 1949 killing of miners

February 8, 2026 0

A Nigerian court has ordered the British government to pay $27m (£20m) to each of the families of 21 coal miners killed in 1949 by the colonial administration in the south-east of the country. The […]

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Rape trial puts Norway’s royal family in unwelcome glare of public

February 1, 2026 0

When Marius Borg Høiby stands up in room 250 at Oslo district court on Tuesday, at the start of Norway’s biggest trial in years, he will have no moral support from his closest relatives. His […]

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France moves to abolish concept of marital duty to have sex

February 1, 2026 0

France is to enshrine in law the end of so-called “conjugal rights” – the notion that marriage means a duty to have sex. A bill approved on Wednesday in the National Assembly adds a clause […]