When Matthias Rohde turned towards the woman sitting in the defendant’s dock and said, “We are a couple,” the courtroom in Rostock fell into a moment of disbelief. After two days of
When Abigail, a 13-year-old schoolgirl, learned that she would have to give evidence in court for a second time, she wept in frustration. The first time she had testified about being raped,
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The debate over whether convicted child sex offender Shabir Ahmed should be deported from the United Kingdom to Pakistan has become about far more than one offender. It has evolved into a
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The abduction, rape, and killing of 11-year-old Lyhanna has become a defining moment in France’s response to child sexual abuse, triggering one of the country’s largest judicial reviews of unresolved cases involving
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A deeply personal essay published by Die Zeit examines how a series of widely reported sexual abuse and violence cases has transformed one mother’s perception of safety, trust and parenting. Drawing on
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When Matthias Rohde turned towards the woman sitting in the defendant’s dock and said, “We are a couple,” the courtroom in Rostock fell into a moment of disbelief. After two days of
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I have no doubt that the girl was sexually abused. That conclusion does not come from courtroom technicalities; it comes from common sense. It comes from lived experience in this society, from
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The Taliban government in Afghanistan has introduced new legislation that effectively permits child marriage for girls as young as nine, drawing widespread condemnation from rights groups and international observers. The law links
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A High Court in Galle, Sri Lanka, has sentenced a father and son to lengthy terms of rigorous imprisonment after finding them guilty of the brutal rape of a 20-year-old woman in
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Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, operated a central European hub of his network in Paris, according to an investigation by Die Zeit. The German newspaper examined recently published
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Bill Gates, the billionaire co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, is set to appear before the US House Oversight Committee in June to testify about his connections to the late financier and convicted
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