Child Abuse

The Australian Bureau of Statistics survey finds around 16 per cent of women have experienced some form of economic abuse. A leading women's advocate says it's a form of abuse that too often is flying under the radar.

A youth worker says a 12-year-old girl charged with the murder of a 37-year-old woman in Melbourne last week was failed by the system that should have been looking after her.

As the girl's family watched on in court, her father was sentenced to a lengthy period in prison for "horrific" offences the judge says she has never seen before. WARNING: This story contains upsetting details.

After Victorian teacher David Ernest Keith MacGregor was convicted of indecent assault, the education department transferred him to a new school.

An abuse survivor who will potentially receive one of Australia's largest-ever compensation payouts from the Catholic Church says he wants the verdict to give other survivors a "sense of hope".

A coronial inquest is examining the adequacy of the care given by multiple services who dealt with her leading up to her death.

More than 100,000 online and telephone reports were made to SA's child abuse line last financial year, a 9 per cent increase from the year prior. 

A Perth woman who held the heads of both her young children underwater in an inflatable pool is jailed, and banned from ever contacting them again.

The case against a former daycare worker, accused of sexually abusing 91 children under his care, could bypass the lower court.

The Catholic primary school in WA's north has become the target of a historical abuse investigation, with allegations two clergymen assaulted a student at the school more than 30 years ago.

Federal police shut down a series of websites responsible for distributing almost 1 million child exploitation images and videos through an internet domain assigned to the Cocos (Keeling) Islands.

A redress scheme for Victorian victims of historical abuse and neglect in institutional care has stalled since its announcement a year ago, and some eligible care leavers have died waiting for the scheme.

Paul O'Halloran regularly sees the damage decades of abuse at a Catholic school have had on his community. He's worried about the impact of the collapse of the Catholic Church-owned insurer and says the church has a responsibility to prop it up so that it can continue to compensate victim-survivors of abuse.

Lenah arrived at a local park, expecting to meet with a child protection worker she thought would help find her family accommodation, but instead she found police and departmental officials lining the street.

A legal firm has sent a call out for potential information about alleged historical child sexual abuse regarding the Shepparton branch of the Revival Centres Church from the late 1980s to the early 2010s.

David Ernest Keith MacGregor remained a Victorian Education Department employee for seven years despite being convicted of two counts of indecent assault, an ABC Investigation can reveal.

Paedophile teacher Grahame Harold Steele died a decade ago and was never criminally prosecuted. An inquiry has allowed one of his victims, Grant Holland, to finally feel heard for the first time.

Timothy Courtney says the abuse started when he was in year 3 at Beaumaris Primary School. He tells a state inquiry he hopes sharing his story will help to reduce the stigma felt by other survivors.

A Brisbane court heard the woman and her daughters were on the run for four years, during which they did not attend school, their names were changed, and their hair was dyed. 

Former Christian Brother John Laidlaw, 84, is likely to die in prison after being sentenced over further offending against students at Victorian Catholic schools between 1966 and 1990.

A healthcare worker who was working at Perth Children's Hospital at the time a 13-year-old girl was allegedly raped claims the mental health ward remains unsafe, despite state government assurances to the contrary.

Indigenous children's advocates and medical bodies criticise a call from the Coalition for a royal commission into child sexual abuse in Indigenous communities, arguing the issue should not be politicised.

Lawyers say there is no evidence a medical professional was present when children were allegedly subjected to physical inspections while on school camps.

A former WA MP is sentenced to almost three years in jail for sexually abusing a young girl, the same year he sought election to the state's upper house.

The Australian eSafety commission fines social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, $610,500 for failing to cooperate with a probe into anti-child-abuse practices.