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The Roman Catholic Church of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, N.M., which filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2018, said it has reached a $121.5 million settlement over nearly 400 claims of sexual abuse.

'She does not wish to further address those objections,' writes Laura Menninger, one of Maxwell's attorneys

Britain's Prince Andrew on Thursday had his military links and royal patronages removed, a day after a U.S. judge allowed a civil case brought by Virginia Giuffre accusing the prince of sexually abusing her when she was 17 to move forward. WHAT ARE GI

Maxwell, 59, has denied charges she groomed underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, who killed himself in jail in 2019.

The indictment alleges that Griffin lured a mother and her underage daughter to his home for the purposes of sexual abuse in July 2020.

On Friday, CBS News 19 reported that South Carolina state Rep. Rick Martin has been indicted on multiple charges by a Newberry County grand jury. "According to the indictments, the first charge of misconduct in office stems from an alleged act between

A CNN employee was charged Friday on three counts that he used a facility of interstate commerce to abuse underage girls.

Her trial is revelatory about women who commit sexual assault.

Alok Nath has now filed a defamation case against Vinta Nanda who had accused him of raping her 19 years ago. He raped her in an inebriated state. The allegations created a storm in the industry after which actresses Navneet Nishan and Sandhya Mridul also spoke about being harassed by the actor.

This, right now, is India's biggest watershed moment. In this patriarchal society, for far too long, far too many women were silent. But, not anymore. The survivors have become warriors, and there's no stopping them. In times like these, one wonders - how has Bollywood woken up from its slumber?

Having scorched media and entertainment, and having touched industry, the #MeToo fire has now spread to the Indian judiciary. On Friday, the Supreme Court took cognizance of a plea filed by a former female judge who had quit in 2014 alleging sexual harassment by a Madhya Pradesh High Court judge.

The ripples of the #MeToo movement have reached Narendra Modi government as MJ Akbar, current minister of State for External Affairs has been accused of sexual harassment by a journalist. Priya Ramani narrated her unpleasant encounter with Akbar in a hotel room, and another journalist testified it.

In a shocking incident, a man rejected by a woman raped her 1-year-old girl and molested her 4-year-old in Indore, police said on Sunday. The 20-year-old man was a distant relative of the family and after being spurned by the woman decided to rape her. He has been arrested and confessed the crime.

Tanushree Dutta's harassment allegations against Nana Patekar should have opened Pandora's Box of similar stories, but nothing much happened. Speaking about this, and drawing similarities to #MeToo movement and how it brought down Harvey Weinstein, Tanushree said we won't be able to do anything.

With #MeToo in background, chances of Tanushree Dutta's allegations against Nana Patekar snowballing into a movement are high. The allegations against a veteran actor are serious, she has stuck to her story over the years and also maintained fellow crew members did nothing. But, Bollywood is silent!

A man was booked in Jaipur on Friday for having unnatural sex with a female stray dog, police said. The case was registered on basis of a complaint filed by People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India and Sachin Stalin, an animal rights activist. The accused was sent to judicial custody.