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A workshop aimed at helping people better identify various forms of abuse starts this week. The Women’s Resource Centre and the Centre Against Abuse will host the eight-week course, a direct response to the rise in sexual assaults and the incidence o...

A 30-year-old yesterday denied sexually assaulting a 66-year-old woman and inflicting her bodily harm. The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also denied a charge of trespassing. Prosecutor Susan Mulligan told Magistrates’ Court that the def...

A 28-year-old man in Magistrates’ Court yesterday denied making advances on a 13-year-old girl earlier this year. Prosecutor Susan Mulligan said that the defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was seated next to the girl on a bus on an unk...

Sexual abuse charity SCARS has worked with a dozen youth service workers to help them identify and properly react to child sexual abuse cases. Staff from Child and Family Services, schools, camps and North Village Community Club were trained to be “a...

A “sick, twisted man” who sexually abused a girl for a decade has been jailed for three years. The victim said Terrence Pantry, 64, began molesting her when she was just eight years old. The girl who cannot be identified by the media said she believe...

A campaigner has called for stronger laws to encourage child victims of sexual abuse to come forward. Debi Ray-Rivers of Saving Children and Revealing Secrets (SCARS) spoke out after a string of such cases came before the Island’s courts. She said: “...

A 63-year-old man has been charged in Magistrates’ Court with sexual exploitation of a young person. The defendant was charged with one count of touching a ten-year-old girl on her private parts, another count of touching the girl indirectly on her t...