Author and columnist Nicky Pellegrino has gone public on how she was raped at knifepoint as a young woman - and her attacker was never found.

An embattled Pope Benedict XVI is coming under mounting pressure to deal with the worsening child abuse scandal.

A doctor has been struck off for having a sexual relationship with a woman who was his patient. She was also his receptionist - and his stepdaughter.

People who travel overseas to have sex with children will face a "strike" towards life imprisonment under new proposals that widen the net of the three strikes bill.

A nurse abducted at knifepoint and sexually assaulted by a paroled prisoner says she feels betrayed by the Corrections Department because it did not tell her he was a sex offender.

Two years after escaping her underground prison, she lives in a brightly painted house in a tiny hamlet referred to as "Village X".

One of NZ's most dangerous sex criminals attacked two women while on parole and under Corrections Department supervision.

A 5-year-old and two 6-year-old boys were apprehended by police for sexual assault last year.

Today, a 19 year old Taupo man was jailed for throwing a three month old baby, who wouldn't stop crying, onto the floor, causing life-threatening head injuries.