A woman abused by a businessman says victims of sexual abuse should be able to choose whether to have their identity suppressed, rather than having it automatically applied.

A North Shore woman who bought her 14-year-old daughter a bottle of vodka and took her to her boyfriend's house while his parents were away has been fined.

You might think of them as grubby types, wearing trench coats in darkened corners of public parks. But as several NZ cases show, the stereotype might need updating.

Former glam rock singer Gary Glitter crept into a schoolgirl's bed and tried to rape her at the height of his fame, a London court has heard.

Paedophile singer Ian Watkins made a sex tape with a girlfriend where they spoke of his sickening fantasies of child abuse, a court heard.

Police investigating sex crime allegations against a teacher long presumed dead before being found in rural New Zealand have returned to Australia to prepare a report for a prosecutor.

It is the most extraordinary story of sex, power, influence and the abuse of young girls and it has already sent Jeffrey Epstein, one of the richest men in America, to jail.

More than 70 people are wanted on arrest warrants for alleged sex crimes and evading police.

Police have released a sketch drawing of a man alleged to have raped and beaten a 16-year-old girl in Auckland, before dropping her in the Auckland Zoo car park.

The results of a ministerial inquiry into the case of a Malaysian diplomat who left the country with immunity are "disappointing", Foreign Minister Murray McCully says.

Bill Cosby's wife has defended her husband in the face mounting allegations of sexual misconduct and condemned the way he's been portrayed in the media.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, has called on social networks to do more to tackle gender inequality online.

When the call came, a friend, a University of Virginia freshman who earlier said she had a date that evening with a handsome junior from her chemistry class, was in hysterics

An international police inquiry may begin into a retired teacher living in New Zealand who is at the centre of allegations of child abuse at a Tasmanian school in the 1960s.

Alcohol-fuelled Christmas parties lead to a spike in work sexual harassment reports, Australian police say.

The partner of a retired teacher at the centre of child abuse allegations at a Tasmanian school in the 1960s has defended him today.

She duped Irish and Canadian authorities with horrific tales of being a child sex abuse victim. Now a 26-year-old Aussie is being sent back home.

A former Malaysian High Commission staffer accused of assaulting a Wellington woman at her home has failed in his bid to have his bail conditions relaxed.

Jailed pedophile Rolf Harris has abandoned his push to appeal 12 convictions for sexually assaulting four girls in the United Kingdom.

A 14-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in a "brazen" daylight attack in Papakura, police say.

A man who attempted to sexually violate a tourist in Westport in June has been sentenced to four years and eight months in prison, without parole.

An Air Force Sergeant is accused of more than a decade of sexual offending against five girls, including one who was allegedly bound in a car with a seatbelt and raped.

Nine years after The Cosby Show star settled out of court with an alleged victim of sexual assault, a string of fresh claims have been made about the 77-year-old comedian's past.

A complaint has been lodged with police against a former politician who tweeted the name of a prominent Otago man who has permanent name suppression.

Every year 3500 convictions will be recorded against men for assaults on women. The majority of these horrific incidents are preventable.