Latest Sexual abuse Stories

When a child experiences a traumatic event, such as sexual abuse, it may not be until well into adulthood that they remember the incident. It is not known how adults are able to retrieve long-forgotten memories of abuse and there has been some controversy as to the authenticity of these reports. The results of a new study in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, suggests that there are important differences between people who gradually recover memories...

Men sexually abused as children are 10 times more likely to contemplate suicide, but many are not diagnosed as depressed, researchers in Britain said. Researchers at the University of Bath in England said the study of Australian men found that those who were sexually abused as children were more likely than women to consider taking their own lives. Dr. Patrick O'Leary and Nick Gould, who conducted a series of surveys and face-to-face interviews with men, said many men suffer feelings of...

Sexual abuse in childhood increases the risk of suicide in men by up to ten times, say researchers from the University of Bath. A recent study of Australian men has found that those who were sexually abused as children are more likely than women to contemplate taking their own lives.Whilst gender and mental health problems are the most important risk factors for contemplating suicide, it is increasingly acknowledged that traumatic experiences such as childhood sexual abuse may be a...

By Young, Ellie L Heath, Melissa Allen; Ashbaker, Betty Y; Smith, Barbara This study investigated the perceptions of special education teachers about the prevalence and characteristics of sexual harassment among students identified with educational disabilities. Utah special education teachers (250) were randomly selected from the state's database. Fifty-two percent (n = 129) of the surveys were returned. Approximately 92% of respondents reported observing incidents of student-to-student...

Pope Benedict XVI made a public apology Saturday for clerical sexual abuse in Australia, speaking to an audience that was largely Catholic religious. Benedict echoed a similar apology made during his first visit to the United States as pope this year, The New York Times reported. I would like to pause to acknowledge the shame which we have all felt as a result of the sexual abuse of minors by some clergy and religious in this country, he said. These misdeeds, which constitute so grave a...

By ROB KENNEDY A CHILD sex predator who systematically abused two young girls has been jailed for 13 and a half years. Edward Trotter raped, indecently assaulted and photographed the children when they were aged between nine and 13. Newcastle Crown Court heard the 71-year-old had only begun offending at the age of 64, having retired from his job as a plasterer. Having carried out the abuse he took indecent pictures of the girls and threatened to show them round their schools if they...

This recent story went wide: British fraternal twins who were adopted separately at birth later married without realizing they were brother and sister. Why does this make us so instantly and overtly squeamish? Lord David Alton of Liverpool — a member of British parliament — discussed the couple's case during a government session on in vitro fertilization as he pushed for identity rights of children conceived by the technique. On his Web site, Alton noted that a...

By ROBERT TANNER A 17-year-old girl in upstate New York is forced into sex by a male teacher. Instead of sympathy, the student gets harassed for causing trouble for a popular teacher, threatened and pushed around by other girls. Just six weeks before graduation, she quits school. A 17-year-old boy in Colorado is seduced by his attractive female teacher. A neighbor tells the teen's mom it was a sexual conquest like "climbing Mt. Everest." He has to hide from the crush of media attention....

By Melissa Vargas and Jessamy Brown, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas May 17--KELLER -- The parents of a 17-year-old Carroll Senior High School student learned of their daughter's seven-week sexual relationship with her swim coach from another teen's parent, according to an arrest warrant affidavit. Swim coach Byron Eugene Coyle, 26, is no longer employed by the Carroll school district, officials said. They declined to say whether he was fired, but they said he did not resign. Coyle was...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research suggests that men who were sexually abused in childhood struggle in their relations with their doctor or other healthcare provider, and many of these healthcare providers do not realize it.While both male and female victims of childhood sexual abuse have similar anxieties and fears about seeing a doctor, "it's doubly difficult for males to come forward after they've been sexually abused, because many men have difficulty identifying and expressing...