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.

The European Commission will look for ways to strengthen its alert system in response to an OCCRP investigation that identified more than 100 doctors who lost their medical license for serious wrongdoing in one jurisdiction but are licensed to practice in another.

A man who ran a teeth-whitening salon has been sentenced to 26 years in jail for a spate of rapes and sexual assaults spanning more than a decade.

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.

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

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.

Adrienne Reilly, CEO of Dignity4Patients, on The Agenda to share the latest update on the campaign for a public inquiry into the abuse perpetrated by former surgeon Michael Shine.

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

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

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.

Identification requirements to obtain a medical licence from the GMC were relaxed during the pandemic, but years later at least 341 physicians remain unverified

The Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service (MPTS) stands accused of failing victims and compounding their trauma. The criticism is based on the outcomes of 46 cases with offences including harassment, rape, and assaults of patients, colleagues and children.

A former Kensington EMT (Emergency Medical Technician) currently serving a minimum 50-year prison sentence for possessing child sexual abuse images will soon be heading to trial on 84 additional counts related to the same offense.

After my call with the lawyer, I found the manila envelope of medical records I’d requested after Hadden vanished in 2012. The records showed the pattern in black and white. Confronting it on paper made it impossible to ignore.

A Mississippi Coast doctor arrested in Louisiana is charged with felonious indecent behavior with juveniles and computer-aided solicitation of a minor