Sexual abuse

This is an opportunity to highlight that sexual abuse has always involved grooming. Our recognition and understanding of this is more recently developed and that explains why people haven't disclosed historically.

Three new criminal charges were filed in March and a civil lawsuit this month against Gabriel Hemenez, former member of the Ignite Life Center and a volunteer at its summer camp.

A circuit judge granted summary judgment to the Sarasota County school board because of a sovereign-immunity law that required the case to be filed within four years of the last act of alleged abuse.

Leda Health provides services for college students who are victims of sexual assault at the University of South Florida, University of Tampa and two universities in Jacksonville.

The report said officials were aware of abuses at the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala since 2006.

Google engineers and other company workers around the world walked off the job Thursday to protest the internet company's lenient treatment of executives…

One year after the #MeToo movement took off, new NPR-Ipsos polls show the nation deeply divided on the issue of sexual assault and harassment. The fissures run more along party lines than gender.

The Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, which made Patterson "president emeritus" last week, said it had received new information about his handling of a sexual abuse claim against a student.

The University of Southern California has received hundreds of complaints about a former school gynecologist suspected of conducting inappropriate exams...

Jacksonville sexual assault victims can soon go to a new location for forensic exams and other resources. It’s called the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam —...

A former Tampa Bay Rays physician will not face criminal charges after being fired when a woman accused him of sexual abuse in January.The St. Petersburg…

The Tampa Bay Rays fired the team physician after a video posted on YouTube included accusations of sexual abuse with a teenager who worked for him about…