The New York Appellate Division Fourth Department recently issued a decision affirming in part and reversing in part summary ...

The Kerala High Court has ruled that there are no statutory provisions in the newly enacted criminal laws, the POCSO Act, or ...

A last-minute bill proposed in the General Assembly may soon establish a filing deadline for child sex abuse claims against ...

Maryland’s highest court, in a 4-3 decision on February 3, narrowly upheld the Child Victims Act of 2023, a law that retroactively and ...

Attorney General Letitia James' office is seeking dismissal of the lawsuit by a man who says he was repeatedly sexually assaulted around a state-run theater in Albany from 1986 to 1990, starting when ...

According to the 2024 South Carolina Human Trafficking Task Force Annual Report, nearly 300 human trafficking tips were investigated in 2024, with almost 400 potential victims. 80 percent were minors.

A local man accused of multiple sex crimes against a child family member will have to wait four more months to face a jury, with a trial date moved from this week to July. Meanwhile, as the ...

Pa., have reintroduced the Stopping Harmful Image Exploitation and Limiting Distribution (SHIELD) Act, Van Drew said Tuesday.

Representative Vern Buchanan (R-FL) is introducing two bipartisan bills to crack down on human trafficking and sexual exploitation, especially of children and b ...

Friday marked six years since passage of New York's Child Victims Act (CVA) − a landmark law empowering survivors of childhood sexual abuse to seek justice after years of silence.

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