Child Sexual Abuse

Roman Polanski, a French-Polish film director responsible for movies like Rosemary’s Baby and The Pianist, is currently hiding out in Europe. He has refused to return to the United States because he fears arrest — and rightfully so. The award-winning director faces...

We are learning more about how we process trauma. We know we often set traumatic events aside as a means of survival; that we may take years or even decades before we can open ourselves to those traumatic memories and attempt to process what happened. We are even...

More than 14 years after Michael Jackson died, a pair of lawsuits accusing him of sexual abuse of minors have been revived. The lawsuits come from two men who say Jackson abused them as children. Their stories were featured in the 2019 documentary Leaving Neverland....

In May 2016, three male students at Focus Point Academy in Pasadena sexually assaulted an 11-year-old special education student. More than six years later, in response to a 2018 lawsuit accusing the district of negligence, a jury awarded the student $26 million in...