Tuesday, 17 November 2020_Close to 90,000 sexual abuse claims have been filed against the Boy Scouts of America as the Monday deadline arrived for submitting claims in the organization’s bankruptcy case.
Thursday, 05 November 2020_The European Union (EU)’s police agency, Europol, has arrested nearly 400 people during raids targeting child trafficking suspects in a number of European countries.
TEHRAN, Apr 06 -Six UK soldiers have reportedly been arrested and then released as part of an investigation into the serious sexual abuse of a teenage servicewoman in a military barrack.
TEHRAN, Mar31-Leaked medical reports prepared for Saudi Arabia’s King Salman have for the first time provided evidence of the torture political detainees in the kingdom have been subjected to as part of the regime's violent crackdown on dissidents and possible rivals to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's rule.
TEHRAN, Mar 23 - Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, the archbishop of Santiago and the highest ranking member of the Catholic Church in Chile, who has been caught up in the country's sex abuse scandal.
TEHRAN, Feb 05 -A judge in the US state of Kansas has reduced the sentence of a 67-year-old man convicted of soliciting a 13-year-old girl on Facebook by eight years after determining the teen and her friend to have been "aggressors" in the case.
TEHRAN, Jan 27-Pope Francis said on Saturday the Roman Catholic Church was weary and “wounded by her own sin,” in an apparent reference to the global sexual abuse crisis.
TEHRAN, Jan 27-US President Donald Trump who has lost his brother, Fred, over alcoholism is donating $100,000 of his 2018 salary to a research on alcoholism.
TEHRAN, Jan 15 -China’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday urged Canada to immediately release Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou, saying the case was an abuse of legal procedures.
TEHRAN, Jan 2 -A cross-party group of British parliamentarians and international lawyers has asked Saudi Arabia to allow them access to the maximum security Dhahban prison, where the regime holds female activists, amid reports of torture and sexual harassment there.
TEHRAN, November 13 - Ethiopia has arrested 63 intelligence officials, military personnel and businesspeople on allegations of rights violations and corruption, the country's attorney general announced Monday.
TEHRAN, October 28 -In another distressing snapshot of the opioid epidemic gripping America, a new study reports that nearly 5 percent of older children and adults in Massachusetts have an opioid use disorder.
TEHRAN, September 06 - Argentina's attorney general is looking into an accusation of " abuse of power" against President Mauricio Macri after he agreed to a $50 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, his office said Wednesday.
TEHRAN, August 29 -The US state of Pennsylvania has accused the Vatican of knowing about recently-disclosed child sex abuse cases and involvement in their cover-up.
TEHRAN, August 26 - Pope Francis faced a lukewarm reception and scattered protests Saturday on his trip to Ireland, with even his vow to rid the church of the "scourge" of sexual abuse and his outrage at those "repugnant crimes" dismissed as a disappointment by some of Ireland's wounded victims.
TEHRAN, August 19 - The Archbishop of Washington, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, withdrew on Saturday from next week’s World Meeting of Families in Dublin, the second senior cleric to pull out of the Roman Catholic event amid clerical sexual abuse scandals in the United States.
TEHRAN, August 14 - A former South Korean presidential contender was found not guilty on all charges on Tuesday in a trial stemming from allegations he raped a female aide several times, prompting immediate controversy.
TEHRAN, July 04 -A football coach in Britain has been found guilty of committing 36 counts of sexual abuse against young men and boys over a 25-year period.