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RECOMMENDATIONS to boost maximum penalties for child sex offences will have little effect on the prevalence of abuse, a Ballarat-based academic said yesterday. The Victorian Sentencing Advisory Council has recommended…

THE puerile stunt by Sydney radio jocks Kyle Sandilands and Jackie O on Wednesday, in which a 14-year-old girl was strapped to a lie detector and interrogated by her mother…

PETER CAVE: Groundbreaking Victorian research has found sexual assault victims aged in their twenties and thirties may be less likely to succeed in prosecuting their alleged offenders. Criminologists have analysed…

One of Australia's leading researchers into child sex abuse says too many parents are focussing on 'stranger danger' to try and protect their children. Professor Caroline Taylor says when it…