The effect of sexual abuse on mental health is profound. The trauma of abuse during childhood leads the victim to direct their shame, despair and anger inwards, which gives rise to psychological distress in adolescence.

Eight out of ten 18-year-olds believe that young people are in danger of being sexually abused or taken advantage of online, and more than five out of 10 think friends participate in risky behaviours while using the internet, a new UNICEF study shows.

A madrassa teacher is arrested for alleged sex abuse on an 11-year-old boy in Munshiganj’s Gazaria upazila. Another sex offender of the same case is now on the run.

A website has been launched in Dhaka city with a view to curb commercial use of sexual exploitation of children in Bangladesh.

An 11-year-old girl has been allegedly raped in Dhaka’s Khilgaon area. A case has been filed in this regard and the accused cuprit arrested.

Federal prosecutors allege that former House Speaker Dennis Hastert sexually abused at least four boys when he worked as a wrestling coach at a high school in Illinois decades ago.

The headmaster of a primary school in Fulchhari upazila of Gaibandha has been suspended over allegation of sexually harassing a class V student.

A Dhaka court yesterday ordered a judicial inquiry into the allegation of sexual abuse of a university student by a sub-inspector in the capital.

A man is held for allegedly trying to rape an indigenous woman at her residence in Dewan Bari area of Dhaka.

A woman files a complaint case with a Dhaka court bringing allegations of sexual abuse against five policemen, including the officer-in-charge of Jatrabari Police Station.

Rapid Action Battalion members arrest a staff nurse of United Hospital in Dhaka, suspected of sexually harassing a female patient, from the capital's airport area.

Miscreants kill two school girls allegedly after raping them in Madaripur Sadar upazila.

Seven people have been arrested in eastern Pakistan on suspicion of involvement in a child sexual abuse and extortion scandal.

A female worker is gang-raped allegedly by one of her colleagues and his two cohorts in Uttara area of Dhaka.

In a discreet letter slipped to a teacher last week, a young schoolgirl in Mumbai writes that her father has been raping her and her mother, who was witness to these sexual assaults, did nothing to help, reports NDTV.

Forensic report of the policewoman allegedly gang-raped by her estranged husband and his cohorts on June 14 at Khilgaon finds evidence of sexual intercourse with the victim.

An investigative report by this paper has unraveled the horrifying sexual abuse of Rohingya women while they make their perilous trips at sea.

Afia (not her real name) was not accompanied by any of her family members, but she showed no signs of jitters. While many in the vessel turned pale in panic due to want of food and water in the perilous sea, the beautiful young girl held her nerves.

Amid countrywide outrage and concern over sexual abuse against women, a girl has been gang-raped in Gazipur’s Kaliganj.

Punjab cabinet gave its nod to bill for protecting female victims of violence and setting up vigilance committees to monitor implementation of steps proposed under National Action Plan.