The 58-year-old woman couldn’t bear to share the details of the sexual abuse she suffered as a child, but its effect on her came across loud and clear Monday in a Baltimore courtroom as she faced the ...

There are many types of abuse; physical, mental, emotional, financial, and sexual. The truth about my life is that I have been victimized by all of these, and survived. The emotional abuse started ...

Only as an adult did I find a name for what I went through as a kid. It was spring and baseball season was about to begin. My 5-year-old would be starting T-ball, and my seven-year-old had agreed to ...

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. Clarita Vargas was 8 when she was forced to live at St. Mary’s Mission ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Editor’s note: This story includes descriptions of sexual abuse and assault. When a woman came to the Illinois Bone & Joint Institute complaining of hip and ...

A Times investigation finds that California school districts have paid nearly a half-billion dollars to settle past sexual abuse claims, and could pay billions more.

Employees abused prisoners at 19 facilities, according to a Senate probe. Widespread sexual abuse of female inmates continues to plague federal prisons and accountability measures for staff have not ...

Emotional abuse is so damaging because it outlives its own life span. Not only does it damage a person’s self-esteem at the time it is done, it also sets up a life pattern that daily assaults the ...

Wickr Me, an encrypted messaging app owned by Amazon Web Services, has become a go-to destination for people to exchange images of child sexual abuse, according to court documents, online communities, ...

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This story originally aired on March 2, 2024. Lyle and Erik Menendez have been behind bars in California for more than three decades for the 1989 killing of their parents, Jose and Kitty Menendez.

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