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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...

A woman sobbed in court yesterday as she told a jury she was a victim of repeated sex assaults that started when she was aged just 10. The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, said she performed sex acts for fast food and “trinkets” on ...

In state after state, the Catholic Church has fought a rearguard action to shield itself from lawsuits by adults abused as children at the hands of priests who were protected from repercussions by the church hierarchy over the course of decades. That...

A Bermudian convicted of possession of child pornography in the United States should have to register as a sex offender if he returns to the island, the head of a child sex abuse prevention charity said yesterday. Debi Ray-Rivers said it should be ma...

A son of former One Bermuda Alliance election candidate Ray Charlton has been convicted of possessing child pornography in the United States. Andrew Charlton, 32, pleaded no contest to the charge at a Rhode Island court and was sentenced last month t...

More than half the sex abuse cases reported to government watchdogs last year were child-on-child assaults, the Minister for Justice and Attorney-General has revealed. Kathy Lynn Simmons told the Senate that 51 per cent of sex abuse allegations refer...

A man accused of a sex assault on a woman has been acquitted in the Supreme Court. The 20-year-old, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, walked free from court after the jury was ordered by acting puisne judge Craig Attridge to deliver a forma...

A 31-year-old man denied two charges of sex assault on a woman, when he appeared in court. It is alleged that the man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, committed the offences on February 14, in Pembroke and Southampton. It was further alleged i...

Campaigners for longer jail sentences for sex offenders are to meet the Attorney-General, it was revealed yesterday. David Burt, the Premier, told the House of Assembly that Juanae Crockwell, who organised a protest outside Parliament on March 1 to d...

Community members staged a demonstration against “inadequate” sentencing and rehabilitation for sex offenders yesterday. The hourlong action outside the House of Assembly came two days after David Minors, a former government road safety officer, was ...

Zane DeSilva, the transport minister, condemned the crimes of David Minors, the former road safety officer, who was jailed for five years for sex offences against an underage child. Minors was imprisoned for sex offences committed last year against a...