Schools should be obliged by law to teach pupils about sexual consent and when 'no means no' in the wake of a torrent of news about child sex abuse, f...

A third young man has come forward alleging that he was sexually assaulted by Deputy Speaker Nigel Evans, after two previous claims against the Tory M...

A Hong Kong official has faced an angry backlash after implying that if women stopped drinking as much they wouldn't be raped. Crime figures for t...

Children's charities and religious groups have condemned the "horrifying abuse" suffered by the Oxford paedophile ring's victims after seven men were ...

Seven members of a sadistic paedophile ring are facing long jail sentences on Tuesday as police and social workers apologised to their victims for fai...

Five people were cautioned for rape in the last year, a Freedom of Information request has revealed. According to figures obtained by London Assemb...

Feminist icon Germaine Greer says she is in favour of rape victims being named. Speaking on the BBC's Question Time show, Greer said complainants s...

If someone committed a crime against you should they be let off if it had happened a long time ago? Or would you still want to see justice done, no matter how much time had passed? Well today there has been a lot of debate about comments by a leading lawyer who described the investigation of historical sexual offences under Operation Yewtree as the 'witch-hunting of ageing celebs'.

Allegations over male on male rape have recently hit the headlines, but because this crime is so rarely properly covered in the media, is it possible it's prone to even more misapprehension, taboo and myth, than other kinds of sexual assault?

A girl of 12 has been raped in woodland at a play park, police said. Thames Valley Police said she had been on her own when a man pulled her to the...

Protecting the identity of people accused of rape would be damaging and harmful both for victims and for society, campaigners have argued after it was...

The case of Stuart Hall is likely to add fuel to the debate over whether those accused of sexual offences should be given anonymity unless proven guil...

Two men have been found guilty of raping a teenage boy in the toilets of a city centre department store. Alex Wilson-Fletcher, 42, and Abdelkader E...

A six-year-old girl has been raped and mutilated in a public toilet in New Delhi, India, just a week after a five-year-old suffered a similarly horrif...