#sexual abuse

The education ministry on Friday said a spate of recent reports about violence and sexual abuse in public schools were isolated incidents, which are a part of the wider community. “...

A criminal complaint for sexual harassment was filed against the head of the beleaguered Osiou Avakoum monastery, it emerged on Tuesday. The complaint was filed by a former employee, who ...

Larnaca district court on Tuesday handed a seven-year prison sentence to a 30-year-old man found guilty of child sexual abuse. A police report said that “according to the evidence gathered ...

Nearly 3,000 pregnant women in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, risk being cut off from essential healthcare if the current gang war-driven paralysis of the city continues, the United Nations said on ...

A retired Roman Catholic bishop appeared in court in remote Western Australia on Thursday on charges of sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape. The charges against Christopher ...

A man appeared in court in the north on Wednesday, accused of having broken his 76-year-old mother’s nose. The police officer speaking in court explained that the man, who ...

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday after having been found guilty of sexually abusing a child. The ruling was handed down at the Larnaca Criminal ...

A resident at the Agios Stefanos foundation reported that she was physically and verbally attacked by a carer at the Limassol facility, police confirmed on Friday. The carer in question ...

A health ministry decision mandating all adult rape and sexual violence victims go to Nicosia’s Makario hospital for any examination, irrespective of which city they live in, has sparked ...

Culture of silence over rape, harassment and domestic violence by police officers MPs are sounding the alarm over what they describe is a boy’s club in the police force ...

Parents have come forward to make statements against a babysitter who is currently being investigated for abusing infants, police said on Tuesday, with one allegation against her being that she ...

A special police team has been set up to investigate reports of a babysitter abusing three infants in Nicosia in the span of a year, it emerged on Monday. Parents ...

Almost 500 calls were made to a domestic violence helpline in the span of 16 days it emerged on Friday, after research revealed that 25 per cent of university students in Cyprus feel ...

The Larnaca Criminal Court on Friday imposed a nine-year prison sentence on a 34-year-old man after finding him guilty of sexually abusing his partner’s daughter. According to media reports, ...

A 14-year-old girl has reported that her foster father raped her, it emerged on Tuesday, as the man remains behind bars until the start of his trial next month. According ...

A disturbing a case of child neglect and abuse is pending trial on Thursday by the Larnaca criminal court. Particulars of the case, reported by Philenews involve accusations of physical ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday said the Catholic Church needs a “humble and ongoing purification” to deal with the “anguished cries” of victims of clerical sexual abuse ahead of an expected ...

A huge billboard raising awareness of sexual abuse by clergymen was put up overnight in Lisbon, just hours before Pope Francis was due to arrive in the Portuguese capital for ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday inaugurated a support centre for individuals who experienced abuse, calling it a milestone in promoting psychosomatic help and a pillar of support for those needing ...

A federal judge on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury found the former U.S. president liable for sexually abusing and defaming the ...

After evaluating a tip off from Europol, members of the police’s electronic crime unit on Sunday arrested a 56-year-old man. According to information, the man had in his possession/...

A 25-year-old high school teacher remanded in connection of child sexual abuse is feared to have acted inappropriately against five minors, it emerged on Friday. “These are very serious charges. ...

Attorney-General Giorgos Savvides on Wednesday appealed the ‘manifestly inadequate’ 11-year prison sentence recently imposed on a man for sexually abusing two minors under the age of 13 in Limassol. The accused ...

LIV Golf League CEO Greg Norman and his wife Kirsten Norman are being sued by a family in Florida accusing them of negligence that led to an underage girl being ...