Sexual abuse

Aides allegedly wanted Twitter provocateur to set up fake account in bid to smear Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Sports star arrested over alleged attack at his home

Shelley Anne Lewis is said to have travelled regularly on late billionaire’s infamous ‘Lolita Express’ private jet

Conservative Party under fire for failing to suspend unnamed former minister

Victim’s 2015 testimony against former Jeffrey Epstein associate unsealed for the first time

New York court rules ‘explosive’ evidence can be made public within a week

Newsnight’s Emily Maitlis says she knew within minutes of starting televised chat that the Royal’s comments would prove ‘explosive’

US prosecutor says the British socialite refuses to reveal her partner’s identity but toured new home with mystery man

Poll result increases pressure for Duke to talk to investigators as Ghislaine Maxwell appears in court

Source claims the socialite has films kept by late paedophile ‘to hold over’ powerful men

Scientists hope to help catch attackers using computer algorithms

Your guide to the best columns and commentary on Wednesday 26 February

Renaudot prize winner boasted of sexually abusing boys as young as eight

Group’s controversial ‘two witnesses’ policy has come under fire

Tradition of ‘boys for play’ facing scrutiny following exposure of paedophile ring operating in schools

Duke’s televised attempt to explain his relationship with the convicted sex offender has prompted fury and ridicule

Adam Neumann ends a disastrous 2019 accused of ‘blatant sexist behaviour’

Concern is rising over reports of sexual misconduct on UK campuses

Poll finds that just 21% of US public think the singer was innocent of sexual abuse allegations

Singer released on bail after being charged with ten counts of aggravated sexual abuse

Mother of victim says 15-year-old abuser ‘should not be allowed near my daughter or any woman’

100 senior bishops meet this week to address clerical sexual abuse, ‘the most serious crisis since the Reformation’

It is the first time a BBC editor has been charged with breaching law entitling complainants to lifelong anonymity

Government teams up with police and Interpol to track sex predators in the foreign aid sector

A year on from Harvey Weinstein scandal the world’s biggest democracy has been shaken by allegations of sexual misconduct

Senate committee descends into barbed partisan attacks as accuser gives testimony

Selena Scola claims the company did little to prevent her developing PTSD

Archbishop breaks cover and calls for pontiff to resign as ideological battle lines are drawn

Pontiff to touch down in radically changed Catholic country amid sexual abuse ‘perfect storm’

Clerical cover-up presents ‘crucial test’ for papacy following earlier failures

Hundreds of priests have been identified in historical sex abuse probe

Pop star releases 19-minute track admitting to infidelity but not paedophilia

The charity will no longer be allowed to operate in the country

Australia’s most senior Roman Catholic pleads not guilty to alleged historical sexual abuse