Perpetrators of domestic abuse tailor their behaviour to achieve a desired outcome: it grants him access to sex, compliance, ...

An alarming increase of child abuse in Jackson County must have many factors, but one is rarely mentioned. It’s our changing definition of what it takes to abuse a child. Sunday’s Citizen Patriot ...

Finally. This past June, Massachusetts became the 49th state to criminalize so-called “revenge porn,” one component of a bill signed into law by Gov. Maura Healey. The law, “An Act to Prevent Abuse ...

While referrals decreased from last year in the town, they still remain at a four-year high, figures show [PA Media] A town's domestic abuse referrals have decreased in the last year but are still too ...

When Colleen DeLeo of Worcester learned Gov. Maura Healey signed a bill that defined coercive control as a form of domestic abuse, she said she broke down in tears. DeLeo, 41, told MassLive she is a ...

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The Saskatchewan government has introduced legislation to expand the definition of 'interpersonal violence' in an act ...

The state comptroller's report also found that domestic violence and the challenges to fight it have become exacerbated because of the Israel-Hamas War. The Social Affairs and Welfare Ministry must ...

Zhi Alan Cheng, a former gastroenterologist at New York-Presbyterian Queens, also filmed the abuse of his unconscious victims in both his apartment and at the hospital, prosecutors said NBC New ...

One in 12 children in the world has been exposed to at least one form of online sexual exploitation or abuse, according to new research. This refers to online solicitation, online grooming, exposure ...

In 2015, Continental Casualty Company issued a commercial general liability policy to Zongwei Shen dba Nobles Massage Spa. The policy covered Shen (the spa owner) and Zhong Xin (the spa manager and ...

Sibling sexual abuse is something I think about daily. Sometimes I’m feeling the aftereffects of my brother sexually abusing me. Sometimes I’m focused on the serious and creative work of how to ...