A teacher who had a "full-blown sexual relationship" with a 15-year-old boy has been jailed for 16 months. Alice McBrearty, 23, admitted the four-month relationship with a pupil she taught at an east London school. Snaresbrook Crown Court heard McBrearty kissed the youngster in a classroom, and had sex with him at her parents' home in Wanstead Park, east London. She pleaded guilty to seven counts of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.

Louis C.K. would rather ignore those assault rumours, but at this point, he can’t just let his art do the talking. By Emma Healey.

Police have released CCTV footage showing a woman's struggle to fight off a sexual predator who was pulling her clothes off on the street as people walked past just metres away. Los Angeles Police Department released the video clip and a sketch of the suspect, who is believed to be Hispanic and aged between 40 and 50, after the incident near Van Nuys Boulevard.

Taylor Swift's former bodyguard testified Friday that he saw a DJ reach under her skirt a moment before a photographer snapped their picture during a meet-and-greet where the singer says the radio host groped her. Security guard Greg Dent, who no longer works for Swift, said he was standing a few steps away but did not intervene because he generally took his cues from the pop star, and she gave him no signals during the 2013 pre-concert encounter at a Denver arena.

The Supreme Court of Canada says the trial judge who acquitted a 35-year-old woman of sexual assault charges for having sex with a 14-year-old boy did not make any error in law. On Friday, the Supreme Court released written reasons for its May ruling where justices said Saskatchewan resident Barbara George should not face a new trial on sexual interference and sexual assault charges.

Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial ended Saturday with a jury that was deadlocked on all counts, punctuating an epic scandal with a giant question mark. Montgomery County Judge Steven O'Neill declared a mistrial after the jury of seven men and five women was unable to reach a verdict. They had deliberated for more than 50 hours over six days.

On Wednesday, a jury ordered the Milwaukee County [Wisconsin] jail, run by Sheriff David Clarke, who recently announced he has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security, to pay the victim $6.7 million. By Gabby Bess.

A federal jury Wednesday awarded $6.7 million to a woman who was raped repeatedly by a guard when she was being held in the Milwaukee County Jail four years ago. The guard, Xavier Thicklen, was acting under his scope of employment when the sexual assaults occurred and therefore Milwaukee County is liable for the damages amount, the jury determined.

A 23-year-old Indian woman has cut off the genitals of a Hindu religious teacher in the southern state of Kerala, claiming he raped her for years. Police said the suspect, named as Gangeshananda Theerthapada, would come to the woman's house to perform prayer rituals for her father's health. Her mother had hoped the self-styled holy man would ease the family's woes.

Court documents reveal evidence that church and Boy Scout leaders knew about a sexual abuser and not only allowed him to continue working, but also promoted him. Fleming Weaver would go on to meet victims who eventually came forward with rape accusations last year. This is a case that spans several decades in Hall County. It’s a case that accuses the Boy Scouts, a Gainesville church and its leaders of lying to keep a horrific secret.

A woman who fought off a convicted sex attacker in a public toilet has provoked a renewed push for women to have self-defence training after it emerged she used moves learned during a class. Kelly Herron reportedly screamed “not today mother***er” at a man who tried to attack her as she took a break while she was jogging, and succeeded in escaping after “clawing” and “punching” him before locking him in the toilet.

A Nova Scotia judge is facing a firestorm of criticism after declaring “clearly, a drunk can consent” as he acquitted a Halifax taxi driver of sexually assaulting a female passenger who was so intoxicated that she urinated on herself and passed out in the back of his cab. Justice Gregory Lenehan told the court that while it was obvious the woman was drunk at the time of the incident, and that the accused was “not somebody I would want my daughter driving with,” the Crown had failed to provide any evidence that the complainant did not agree to sexual activity.

Writing About Trauma as a Subversive Act. By Melissa Febos.

19-year-old Emma Krenzer has brought awareness to sexual assault via an art project, which she made for the class at Wesleyan University in Nebraska.

Aria Watson, an 18-year-old student from Oregon, never cared about politics, but this year was different.

From Trump’s ‘locker-room’ talk to the testimonies of survivors, 2016 has been a charged and conflicted year for how society perceives and punishes assault. By Lizzie Crocker.

Denise Albert, a mother of two who hosts a TV show and is battling breast cancer posted a humiliating experience at LAX on Facebook. By Joe Torres.

“The night after the second story was published, I got choked unconscious at my friend’s place in Iqaluit House—in the same apartment, it turned out, where a young man had removed his head with a shotgun blast months earlier…” By Lisa Gregoire.

Trapped in a bad dream.:That’s how 18-year-old Noemi felt when she learned that she had to hand over her baby daughter to the man convicted of assaulting her… By Thom Patterson.

Our preconceived notions about sexual assault have far-reaching, dangerous consequences. By Jade Blair. (Mar. 24, 2016)