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A 61-year-old man accused of a sex assault on a 20-year-old woman was given three more weeks to prepare his defence. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was ordered yesterday in Magistrates’ Court to return to court on June 24. The defend...

Releasing personal details under public access to information about sex offenders who have served their jail terms would not be fair to those individuals, according to information commissioner Gitanjali Gutierrez. Ms Gutierrez, in a decision due to b...

More than 130 members of the Catholic Church have taken child sex abuse prevention training after their leader made it mandatory for anyone who worked with young people, it was revealed yesterday. The Most Reverend Wesley Spiewak, Bishop of the Dioce...

More than 130 sex offenders, including 64 child sex offenders, have been released from prison in the past two decades, Department of Corrections statistics have revealed. However, a children’s rights campaigner claimed yesterday that almost 80 per ce...

A 61-year-old man denied a sex assault on a woman yesterday. The man, from Sandys, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty in Magistrates’ Court to two charges of intruding on a 20-year-old woman and one charge of sexual assaul...

Prison authorities failed to reach a decision on whether to release records about sex offenders under Bermuda’s public access to information law. But the Department of Corrections said it was now working with the Information Commissioner’s Office to ...

A man who raped a 15-year-old schoolgirl more than 30 years ago was imprisoned for eight years yesterday. Morris O’Brien, 54, from Pembroke, was convicted of the attack on the teenager after trial in February. Puisne Judge Carlisle Greaves said the c...

Bermuda’s police helped to snare a man who raped a 15-year-old boy on a cruise ship berthed in Dockyard. Adam Boyd, from Mississippi, has admitted the offence in a US courtroom and will be sentenced this year. Boyd, 32, pleaded guilty to sexual abuse...

In recognition of Child Abuse Awareness Month and Sexual Assault Awareness Month (April), Saving Children and Revealing Secrets (SCARS) and Centre Against Abuse (CAA) united to hold a join event Partner in Prevention on Friday, 26 April 2019. SCAR...

A 34-year-old man has denied sexually assaulting a woman. The man, from Hamilton Parish, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also denied hitting the 32-year-old woman when he apperaed in Magistrates’ Court yesterday. The incident is alleged to hav...

A woman raped as a 15-year-old schoolgirl decades ago said she still felt the affects of the violation today. The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said that she suffered “terrible emotional scars”. She added: “Today I still have n...

A 22-year-old man was remanded in custody yesterday after he was extradited from Britain to face a sex assault charge. The man, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, pleaded not guilty to an alleged sex assault on a girl aged under 16 and use o...