Pope Francis made the admission while visiting the Middle East Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves. He said in that case ...

In a horrifying cycle of abuse, children in the Philippines are being forced to put on a sexually explicit ‘show’ for foreigners by trusted loved ones – including sometimes by their own mothers.

It may come as a surprise to learn that many people who experience domestic abuse in a relationship are dealing with more than just physical and verbal abuse from their significant others.

You are not at fault. You did not cause the abuse to occur, and you are not responsible for the violent behavior of someone else. If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted ...

And in a moment that felt like a pivotal plot twist on Thursday, the Los Angeles DA filed a petition to resentence Erik and Lyle Menendez, citing new evidence that shed light on sexual abuse the ...

Her medical history included liver cirrhosis secondary to ethanol abuse, ascites ... platelets, blood urea nitrogen, serum creatinine, albumin, alkaline phosphatase, aspartate transaminase ...

In the past 20 years, a disturbing number of Southern Baptists with formal church roles have engaged in sexual misconduct, a new investigation by the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News ...

Emotional abuse is a pattern of behavior in which the perpetrator insults, humiliates, and generally instills fear in an individual in order to control them. The individual's reality may become ...

"Every time I stayed the night with him, he abused me" Two men have told the BBC they were abused hundreds of times by Michael Jackson, from the ages of seven and 10. Wade Robson, 36, told the BBC ...

Around the world and in the U.S., nicotine is the most widely used addictive substance; tobacco causes a reported 40 million deaths worldwide. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse ...

The reason is simple: A robust and independent news media keeps a sharp eye on government and, when necessary, exposes abuse of power, corruption, incompetence and waste. Exposing such things ...