MSP Michelle Thomson says “too little has changed” since she spoke publicly about being raped at the age of 14. In 2016, while an MP, Ms Thomson gave a speech
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Children at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland were sexually abused and subjected to sadistic treatment that “destroyed childhoods”, an inquiry has found. Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child
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An independent inquiry will look into how murderer David Fuller went undetected in sexually abusing 100 corpses in hospital mortuaries, the Government has said. Hospital electrician Fuller admitted murdering then
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Waiting lists for victims of rape and serious sexual assault have risen to their longest on record, with some people having to wait two years for specialist support. The latest
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Staff at a Rape Crisis centre forced to close its counselling services waiting list earlier this year due to funding pressures said the decision was “heart-breaking”. Jocelyn Anderson, long-serving chief
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Police Scotland has been told that “urgent work” is needed to tackle “widely held problematic attitudes around sexual violence” amongst officers. Rape Crisis Scotland made the plea as it published
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Police have been asked to urgently assess the scale of drink spiking at nightclubs and parties amid a rise in reports and claims some people have been drugged by injection.
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For three weeks last autumn, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse heard disturbing evidence from Lord Janner’s alleged victims about their ordeals. The alleged abuse was largely meted out
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A new Police Scotland campaign aiming to prevent sexual crime is urging men not to be “that guy”. The campaign features a social media advert calling on men to change
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An independent inquiry will be launched into the “systematic failures” that allowed Sarah Everard’s killer to be employed as a police officer, the Home Secretary has announced. Speaking at the
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