#sexual abuse

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 ...

Hope for Children group doing a sterling job of supporting abused minors Cyprus, where at least one in four children is believed to have been sexually abused, needs to invest ...

The World Health Organization said on Wednesday that it has dismissed a senior scientist, known for his role as the head of an international mission to China to probe the ...

The online platform to make appointments at the immigration department has been taken down and new arrangements will be in place as of Monday, Interior Minister Constantinos Ioannou said on ...

Despite efforts to combat it, the number of children referred for investigation of sexual abuse has remained consistently high for the past two years, with over 400 cases reported annually, Hope ...

Around 75 per cent of victims of family violence and abuse of minors in Cyprus are girls and women, according to data released by the police. According to the statistics, there ...

A man who committed the “extremely vile” crimes of sexually abusing three children and was sentenced to 10 years in prison in a “blatantly inadequate sentence” has now had his sentence ...

A 50-year-old man in Paphos was sentenced to four years in prison after being found guilty of sexual harassment against a minor. Evidence that emerged during the trial revealed that ...

The Supreme Court on Tuesday unanimously decided to increase the prison sentence of a man who was found guilty of sexual abuse from four and a half to ten years, ...

Sex education needs to have a place in teaching as part of a broader government strategy to protect children from sexual abuse, children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou said on ...