Six more men have accused the Oregon Youth Authority of ignoring sexual abuse they say they experienced from a doctor as youth incarcerated at MacLaren Youth Correctional Facility in Woodburn.

The Iowa Board of Medicine is defending its decision to suspend the license of a physician assistant facing multiple criminal charges alleging he sexually assaulted female patients.

A doctor accused of sexual misconduct was previously struck off for lying about his qualifications. Dr Velmurugan Kuppuswamy was allowed to practice again despite objections from the General Medical Council (GMC) – and within months of returning to the NHS he allegedly groped and made disturbing sexual comments to junior colleagues.

Non-Disclosure Agreements, such as those signed by accusers of Harvey Weinstein, have previously been wrongly used to silence victims of harassment and discrimination. The amendment to the Victims and Courts Bill is part of a government plan to restore confidence in the justice system.

The charity’s 2024 annual report, published on Monday, notes the 14 per cent increase in the proportion of male survivors – from 48 per cent of all contacts in 2023 to 62 per cent – and that this increase coincided with the Government’s publication of the Scoping Inquiry Report into Historical Sexual Abuse in Schools.

A doctor who was censured by the Medical Council and who fell off the medical register for several years faces fresh allegations that he failed to inform a new employer of conditions attached to his registration.

The brothers spoke publicly about the sexual abuse they suffered as boys on the campus of Blackrock College in Dublin run by the Spiritan Order. Their bravery and the manner in which they told their story resulted in former students contacting RTÉ’s Liveline programme, alleging historical physical and sexual abuse. It all snowballed into hundreds of cases of alleged abuse being reported to gardaí as well as to the organisation One in Four - which supports survivors of child s

A prominent surgeon and professor allegedly raped a woman at gunpoint at his Manhattan apartment after the victim had come to him for career advice, according to prosecutors. Dr. Maurizio Miglietta; currently a professor of surgery at Touro College — was accused of first-degree rape and attempted rape. He was arraigned in state supreme court Tuesday afternoon.

5 men in County Down, are to receive a combined total of more than £1.2 million in damages. The final settlements were reached in their High Court action over historic physical and serious sexual assaults inflicted by the late Fr Malachy Finegan.

The Health Minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill confirmed she has received a paper from the Dignity4Patients, the group which represents the 384 victims and their families about what should happen next in their crusade for justice.

TWENTY-FIVE MEN are taking fresh civil cases against paedophile surgeon Michael Shine and the religious order that ran the hospital where he once worked.

Disgraced West Linn Doctor David Farley has been charged by the State of Oregon with sexually abusing three unnamed victims.

The Oakland County doctor accused of sexually abusing and videotaping numerous patients without their consent over several years pleaded no contest to his charges. Dr. Oumair Aejaz is accused of sexual abuse and hiding cameras in the changing rooms of his patients. Victims were allegedly videotaped at several hospitals.

A district judge has refused to approve a police request to impose restrictions on a Cumbrian doctor who was twice investigated for alleged child sex offences.

Congressmen question whether any misconduct was the result of “systemic failures.”

How can it happen that a doctor who has been sanctioned or even struck-off in one country can simply move to another and continue working? Shouldn’t the various medical registration bodies have robust recording and information sharing systems that would make that impossible. Most patients will assume that to be the case but a new global investigation has found serious flaws in the system.

A Dublin pensioner in his 90s is to stand trial accused of indecent and sexual assaults on three youths in the 1970s and 1990s.

Half of all sanctions issued against doctors in this State are kept hidden from the public, figures obtained by The Irish Times show. In some years, as few as 20 per cent of sanctions are made public.

A doctor under investigation in Norway for lacking basic medical knowledge, including how to perform injections, was able to obtain a licence in Ireland and retain it for more than two years before being suspended by Irish authorities.

A Liverpool doctor has been erased from the Medical Register after he was convicted of engaging in controlling/coercive behaviour.