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An Indiana couple has been accused of sexually abusing their children and the family dog for more than five years, a police report says.

A survey conducted among women in Hollywood and published Wednesday has shown how pervasive the problem of sexual harassment and misconduct is in the U.S. entertainment industry.

LONDON (AP) – Oxfam’s leadership apologised Tuesday for downplaying the significance of a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti and sought to stem the tide of cancelled donations.

“We all need to recognize that falsely accused people are victims, too,” said Cassie Jaye of persons — mostly men — who are falsely accused of committing sexual misconduct. She made her comments within a broader discussion on feminism and associated #MeToo narratives.

Pope Francis is under fire for “apparently” lying about not being fully informed that a Chilean priest he elevated to the role of bishop had allegedly “witnessed and took part in the sexual abuse of a child and covered it up,” said John Zmirak on Tuesday.

Actress Kate Winslet expressed her regrets about working with certain “individuals with whom I wish I had not.”

EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Michigan State University’s athletic director retired two days after the university president resigned over the school’s handling of sexual abuse allegations against its disgraced former sports doctor, Larry Nassar.

Actor Mark Wahlberg has announced that he is donating $1.5 million to the sexual harassment legal fund in fellow actress Michelle Williams’s name amid a brewing controversy over pay disparity.

The high profile that the “secret settlements” have taken over the past few months is just a harbinger of things to come as the holidays come to a close.

An Illinois special education teacher has been sentenced to ten years for sexually molesting a teenage student, but during her sentencing hearing, allegations of another incident were revealed.

Anti-semitic, pro-Palestinian activist Linda Sarsour has been accused of allowing a woman who worked for her to be sexually assaulted and harassed. The woman also said Sarsour threatened her if she went public with the charges.

Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s incredible rise to power and his epic fall from grace is getting the Hollywood treatment from the BBC, which has begun developing a 90-minute feature documentary on how his alleged abuses went unreported for so long.

A one-year-old girl was reportedly raped to death in the Venezuelan state of Zulia this week in another shocking tale of violence to come out the collapsed socialist state.

Actress Lena Dunham and media mogul and veteran journalist Tina Brown have claimed they warned Hillary Clinton’s senior campaign staffers about Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct, yet they proceeded to work with the now-disgraced movie producer anyway.

Fox’s Prison Break star Robert Knepper has been accused of sexual assault by four more women, weeks after initial allegations against him emerged.

Paul Golding, the leader of the fringe activist group Britain First, has been accused of a sex attack after attending a protest against child sex abuse.

The Atlantic published an article proposing “allegation escrow” systems to be used to stop sexual harassment in the workplace. Referencing a 2012 scholarly article which proposed “the use of an allegation escrow to allow victims to transmit claims information to

The Beverly Hills Police Department confirmed it is now investigating at least 12 sexual misconduct allegations within Hollywood amid a deepening scandal into sexual assault and abuse across the entertainment industry.

The disgraced movie producer Harvey Weinstein kept a secret “hitlist” of nearly 100 industry figures who were aware of his alleged sexually abusive behavior and whether they ever planned to go public.

Veteran actor Sylvester Stallone has been accused of forcing a teenage girl into a threesome with himself and his bodyguard.

A probe carried out by The Old Vic theater in London into their former artistic director Kevin Spacey has found over 20 testimonies of inappropriate sexual behavior.

Eddie Berganza, a top editor for comic book publishing giant DC Comics, has been suspended over multiple charges of sexual misconduct that go back decades.

Jerry Moore spoke out on Saturday about allegations against his brother, Alabama Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore, during a local television news interview.

Olympic gymnastics star Aly Raisman has come forward and accused the former U.S. women’s gymnastics team doctor of sexual abuse. Raisman will make that claim and tell her story on 60 Minutes this Sunday.

Mitch McConnell and many other Republican senators called on Alabama Judge Roy Moore to step down amidst accusations of sexual assault.

A man from Queens, New York, who allegedly molested two children at a birthday party, died hours after the alleged incident, police said.

An illegal alien in Nebraska has been charged with four counts of sexually molesting a child and is set for deportation, according to reports.

Sony Entertainment has canceled the American Film Institute premiere of the film ‘All the Money’ featuring the embattled actor Kevin Spacey,

Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to gather in downtown Los Angeles and around the country for an “anti-fascist” march against President Donald Trump. But there has yet to be any kind of public demonstration against sexual harassment and sexual assault in Hollywood.

Actor Kevin Spacey has been dropped by his longtime talent agency CAA and his publicist Staci Wolf amid an escalating scandal over sexual abuse allegations.

Allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment, and affairs have been made against 37 male and female Tory MPs and cabinet ministers, including the use of prostitutes and ‘extreme sex acts’ with multiple men.

Actor Kevin Spacey came out as gay and claimed he had no memory of a decades-old incident in which he allegedly made a sexual advance on a 14-year-old actor in an apology statement posted to his Twitter account Sunday night.

An illegal immigrant is accused of sexually assaulting an elderly woman after allegedly breaking into her home.

Former chairman of Walt Disney Studios and former DreamWorks Animation chief Jeffrey Katzenberg has apologized for his alleged remarks about the actress Molly Ringwald, even as he apparently denied ever having said them.

One of China’s most prominent English-language state newspapers published a column this week claiming their country does not have sexually abusive figures such as Harvey Weinstein because of the strength of “Chinese values.”

Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president John Bailey has said the organization will not represent an “inquisitorial court” into sexual harassment in the movie industry but would seek to improve standards of behavior, although he didn’t specify how the Academy would seek to do so.