Male predation on women and girls

The HSE is drawing up a national policy on sexual assaults and harassment in nursing homes, residential and care centres amid concerns over delays in reporting cases and providing immediate care for victims.

A Wicklow man who engaged in text exchanges about having sex with children to impress several individuals has received a three-year suspended prison term.

I kept telling myself to stop, ex-minister told police

A FORMER GP and paediatrician from Taunton caught with one of the largest hauls of child sexual abuse images the National Crime Agency (NCA) has…

Edward Earnshaw, 27, ‘took advantage’ of the girl being alone in a cubicle, a court heard

A widower who escaped a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a young girl in an Irish hospital was jailed after he admitted repeatedly rubbing himself against another terrified teenage girl in a bus station.

Gardaí will soon be able to provide schools, colleges and crèches with photographs of registered sex offenders if they are seen acting suspiciously near their premises.

The Minister for Justice has said that an unspecified number of gardaí are under investigation for gender-based assault.

Female doctors have launched a “surviving in scrubs” campaign to expose sexism and sexual assault in healthcare.The campaigners want the General Medical Council

A man who trapped and attacked a woman before beginning to masturbate in front of her has been returned to jail for two years after failing to leave the country as a condition of his sentence.

PC Swaleh Chaudhry, of the Metropolitan Police, also had child abuse images in his home

An assistant head teacher at Hampton School was caught filming a colleague in a female-only shower room, a court heard

DC Stephen Hardy has been suspended from duty

A mental health nurse who sexually assaulted a vulnerable patient while working at a psychiatric hospital has been spared jail.Richard McLellan attacked the wom

An NHS nurse bombarded female colleagues and students at the hospital where he worked with sexual images and videos, a court was told.Derek Revie, 53, left his victims disgusted and horrified after contacting them on Facebook and WhatsApp.He had worked for NHS Lanarkshire caring for hospital patient

Jeffrey Kelly (32) sentenced to nine years and further post release supervision over incident in Portadown in May 2020

A former lawyer has been convicted of historical sex abuse against children.John Watt QC was extradited to Scotland from the US to face trial after targeting t

Man told one of the girls, then aged just 13 or 14, that he would like to have a baby with her and grew angry when advances were rejected

A doctor who raped a student nurse after contacting her through a dating site has been jailed for four years.Dr Manesh Gill, 39, carried out the sex attack on

A GP raped a student nurse moments after giving her a drink which caused her to drift in and out of consciousness. Dr Manesh Gill, 39, had met the woman on Tind

Senior officers acknowledge public concern after arrest of Sgt Laurence Knight, who is accused of carrying out the attack while off duty

Muhammad Taimoor, who is employed at a school in Birmingham, is also accused of trafficking offences

With her tailored black trouser suit and careful grooming, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill might have looked every inch the confident politician as she took to the stand to tell the court the impact that internet harassment had on her well-being.

Stella Creasy, the Labour MP, has said she was threatened with gang rape at Cambridge by men who went on to become “high-flying” civil servants

A leading QC said that he would “shag” the head of a Scottish rape charity “just to have something over her”, text messages submitted to an investigation revea

Rachel Fenton of Manchester, who was living as a man when arrested, pleaded guilty to 21 offences

Daniel Clift, aged 33, of Newcastle, was spared jail at Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court

It isn’t currently against the law, but the habit is an act of aggression against women every bit as damaging as flashing

Oliver Perry-Smith ‘abused his power’ by contacting vulnerable women and looking up their personal details

One night recently, while I was watching TV with my husband, my phone began to vibrate with a call from a man I didn’t know. His Instagram profile showed someo

It is the first time guidance on this issue has been released

A MAN gave a harrowing account to jurors of the sexual abuse he claims he suffered at the hands of another man when he a teenager.

A Metropolitan Police sergeant who raped two women has been found guilty of gross misconduct. Paul Storey was named yesterday by the Met after he was found guil

Committee found allegations against Kevin Mulcahy amounted to professional misconduct

Anthony Dunne (61) recorded video of a colleague at factory while she was using the shower

A HELENSBURGH man repeatedly abused two children by forcing them to play along with his bizarre fantasy that he was a three-year-old girl.

Britnee Aitken, 47, from Rochdale, will have her treatment delayed after two girls said she molested them ten years ago when she identified as a truck recovery driver called Marcus.

A FORMER Kerry badminton champion who admitted paying mothers to let him sexually abuse their children has been remanded in custody for sentencing next month.

A doctor accused of sexually assaulting more than 50 female patients says he has “regret” about some of his behaviour while working in his surgery.Krishna Sin

While the force has tried to pin a culture of toxic masculinity on a few ‘bad apples’, misogyny and abuse continues to blight the profession

Dominik Bullock sat next to a passenger and began staring at her intently. When she asked him to stop as it was making her feel uncomfortable - he refused.

Surveillance footage showed a woman riding an electric wheelchair while sitting on a human leg.

The ‘Irish Examiner’ discovered a property in Co Clare being offered for free to a ‘slim Ukrainian’ woman, with an expectation of sex

The daughters of convicted paedophile David Tweed have urged other survivors of incest and sexual and physical abuse to speak out to prevent their abuser from being protected by a wall of silence.

The former partner of a woman broke into her home and terrorised her in a horrific ordeal that lasted for around 19 hours and then sent texts messages from her phone to try to blame her.

A married stalker who hacked his mistress’s emails after the breakdown of their fling is a former IT director for the Metropolitan Police.

A judge has jailed a man who repeatedly carried out solo sex acts in front of his teenage daughter, including in her bedroom and in his car.

A quarter of officers banned from policing because of gross misconduct were dismissed for sexual offences or domestic violence, new figures show.A report by the

A doctor facing 84 sexual offences has been accused of inappropriately touching an alleged rape victim he was examining on behalf of the police. Krishna Singh

A doctor has been accused of more than 80 sex offences against women and girls spanning 35 years.Most of the allegations against Krishna Singh, 72, are said to

A former garda in the west of Ireland has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman on two occasions at a garda station, the Sunday Independent can reveal.

The University of California has agreed to pay nearly $244 million in compensation to more than 200 women who allege they were sexually assaulted by a campus g

Australia’s prime minister has apologised for what he admitted was an unacceptable history of harassment, sexual assault and bullying within the parliament, including the alleged rape of a woman

Pope Francis has called on nuns to “fight” when they are treated like servants by priests and has warned that many religious women are suffering from burnout

Counter-terror detective targeted models while posing as a pilot called ‘Harrison’ who did photoshoots in his spare time

Calling out unacceptable behaviour towards women is never easy but not impossible

Dublin model Thalia Heffernan has spoken of her revulsion after witnessing a man committing a lewd sexual act while she stopped at a petrol station forecourt over the Christmas break.

A Wicklow woman has spoken out about a terrifying ordeal in which a man tried to get into her car while she was stopped at a red light in Dublin over the weekend.

As Philippa Jackson, a surgeon, prepared with colleagues for an emergency operation, one helped tie her theatre gown. He leaned in and told her that consenting to him tying her gown meant she consented to tying her up however he liked — before kissing the nape of her neck. It was part of a pattern o

A senior osteopath who twice kissed a female patient with mental health issues and encouraged her to try an “open marriage” has been struck off

The 47-year-old now faces 29 charges alleged to have been committed against eight women between 2009 and 2020.

Whatever steps are taken by government, institutions, organisations and individuals, to prevent paedophiles getting access to children and young people,...

The victim was running a route into Streatham Common via Streatham Common North Road at around 05:10 on Thursday December 23 when she was attacked by an unknown male.

Brittany Higgins, Grace Tame and thousands of women across the country are demanding a better future, sometimes at great personal cost

John Apter had criticised sexism in police ranks

Liam Vickers was identified after gardaí canvassed local area and residents for CCTV

Sexual harassment is rampant inside Australia’s parliament, an official inquiry has found, including cases of male MPs unwantedly kissing women and putting thei

A gynaecologist has been “curing” female patients by convincing them that they needed to have sex with him.Giovanni Miniello, 68, from the southern Italian

Cian Cooney (36) of Ballymahon, Co Longford, had acknowledged he would not teach again

Raymond Finlay could clearly be seen testing the device after attaching it to a pipe under a sink and facing the toilet at the Braco Coffee Shop.

The court heard that James Clark, the drum teacher of a Scottish boarding school, also had an ‘illicit affair’ with a teenage pupil

Pressure is mounting on a member of the Policing Authority over his handling of an alleged sexual assault complaint while a senior member of the Police Service of Northern Ireland.Sinead McGrotty, a civilian member of the PSNI, has condemned Stephen Martin over cancelling measures put in place to pr

Female detainees were forced to mix with men with a history of sexual violence against women in an immigration centre due to Covid restrictions, a report has fo

Carl Ollerhead will appear before magistrates on September 28

Women described being offered jobs such as cooks and cleaners in return for sex

A police and crime commissioner is under criminal investigation for an alleged serious sexual assault, the policing watchdog confirmed yesterday.Steve Turner, t

Nightclubs were largely deserted on the busiest night of the week for students as thousands of women boycotted venues to raise awareness about spiking and sexu

Nearly 80 convicted sex offenders have failed to alert gardaí of their whereabouts or the aliases they are using in the past 12 months.

Strikes may be ahead as rail workers reach breaking point on anti-social behaviour

Pc Adam Zaman, who is based on the East Area Command Unit, arrested after alleged incident in City of London

Force checking on live investigations into Garda members accused of domestic violence

Faced with ploughing through another pile of crime books depicting graphic violence against women, novelist Adam LeBor was prompted recently to wonder whether this fetishisation of brutality actually encouraged misogyny.

All day, you’ve been working indoors in a stuffy office. In the evening, you decide to take some exercise and fresh air. Darkness is starting to fall, but it’s not particularly late. You’re strolling along, mind elsewhere, when suddenly your antennae start to twitch. Footsteps behi…

Assaults on 18 intellectually disabled adults happened over 13-year period, report says

The office of Philip Allott has received 800 complaints after he said that women should ‘learn a bit’ about the legal process

A Dublin TD has told RTÉ’s Liveline programme that chants of ‘let’s rape her’ which were shouted by a group on young men on the Dart epitomise “toxic masculinity”.

A man was arrested after he was caught watching a woman as she used the public toilets in a Dublin city centre fast food restaurant.

Aileen Malone, the mother of the late journalist Dara Quigley, received a significant letter in the post last week. Four years after Dara died by suicide, came a formal apology in writing from Garda Commissioner Drew Harris, expressing his sincere regret for the police misconduct that likely contrib…

Last Thursday Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws, a Scottish feminist and a QC, took part in a protest sparked by the murder in London of Sarah Evera

Two thousand police have been accused of sexual misconduct, including rape, over the past four years.In nearly two thirds of cases officers accused of sexual vi

As O’Donovan was being taken into custody by prison officers he said: ‘I want to go home. My brother is waiting for me’

A Metropolitan Police firearms officer from the unit that guards the prime minister has been remanded in custody after being accused of rape.PC David Carrick, 46, “emphatically denies” the rape of a

Sarah Everard’s killer exchanged misogynistic, racist and homophobic material with colleagues who are now under criminal investigation, The Times has learnt.Five serving police officers, including

Couzens abused his position to murder Sarah Everard but, despite what the Met Police may say, he’s far from the force’s only bad apple

‘Urgency and purpose’ needed to avoid repeat, Lieut Gen Seán Clancy tells troops

Former Kerry judge James O’Connor named by TD under Dáil privilege

The prospect of Graham Dwyer’s release from prison on a legal technicality could seriously undermine the State’s ability to protect the public in future.

A former member of a pupils’ pipe band has told how a teacher had “regularly” struck her on her buttocks with drumsticks and his hands at a Scottish boarding school.

Women become less trusting when they can smell fear because of their ancient role maintaining social networks, a study suggests.Researchers took sweat samples

Six women remain unidentified among 50 victims who were filmed naked by a Scotland Yard detective who hid spy cameras at sham photoshoots.Detective Inspector N

Violence towards women during sex is just good old-fashioned misogyny

Det Insp Neil Corbel hid cameras in tissue boxes, phone chargers and glasses to film his victims.

Marques had been arrested in Dublin and extradited to the US in 2019.

Women of Honour documentary confirms pattern of discrimination and violence continues

Unprecedented levels of stress seen among survivors of sexual violence amid pandemic

A judge at Leeds Crown Court handed Gordon Newton an extended prison sentence and told him: “You hold yourself as a man of God, but you are nothing. You are a hypocrite"

Prosecutors have filed charges against a transgender woman at the center of a viral video that sparked violent protests outside a Westlake spa.

Darren Agee Merager, who spoke exclusively The Post, denies the allegations and says that she is actually the victim of transphobic harassment.

A convicted sex offender who attempted to rape a woman during a late-night attack in public has had ten years added to the lengthy prison term he is serving for

Erling Leask, of Cowgate, abused his position of power and trust by having sex one victim and indecently assaulting another

Jake Davison from Plymouth killed his mother, a three year old girl and other innocent bystanders before turning the gun on himself – but he isn’t the first male from the involuntary celibate (incel) community to do this.

A Scout leader who had a sexual relationship with a schoolgirl has avoided jail after a sheriff said there was no suggestion his victim had not consented.Lewis Findlay, who led an Explorers troop, was 23 while the girl was 15.Falkirk sheriff court was told that the girl, who had known Findlay since

This is a story about nothing happening. Nothing at all. So it could all be in my head; an assumption, jumping to conclusions, an unwarranted response.

A U.S. Justice Department investigation found that prisoners were subjected to sexual abuse at a women’s prison in New Jersey, department lawyers said on Tuesday at a news conference to announce a settlement that calls for reforms at the facility.

Jake Davison has become a cause célèbre for women-hating “incel” extremists across the world after his rampage in Plymouth.Members of the “involuntary celibate”

An Australian swimmer who opted out of the Tokyo Olympics to protest "misogynistic perverts" in the sport said Saturday her stance for cultural change was worth more than any medal. Madeline Groves, who won two silver medals at the Rio Olympics, stunned her teammates when she pulled out of…

Benjamin Poole, 21, is jailed for six years after admitting seven offences.

Mark Goddard (36) pleaded guilty to disclosing information from police computer system

Nearly a quarter of all convicted sex offenders in Ireland are considered to be at a “high” or “very high” risk of reoffending, according to a new report.

An athletics coach who played the pop hit Young Girl to teenagers who he subjected to sexual abuse has been jailed.Eric Simpson raped one girl and subjected four other victims to indecent assaults and lewd behaviour.Simpson, 73, had denied a string of offences during a trial at the High Court in Edi

The Samaritans charity has introduced new safeguarding measures amid allegations of incidents of helpline volunteers meeting vulnerable callers for sex.The charity, which offers a helpline service to people in emotional distress or at risk of suicide, reportedly plans to monitor phone calls in futur