Incest

Our country has a duty to ensure women’s rights are protected here and in the region

A film about the sexual abuse of one woman should be the start of a movement to say: ‘No!’

My mother was raped by a church elder, something that would affect the rest of her life. This made what happened after, something even worse.

When an English journalist’s mother dies, she unearths some extraordinarily painful secrets that have been buried for years, writes Charles Leonard.

Last month, the California Court of Appeal has ordered that a pair of South African parents be barred from visiting their grandchildren.

An Australian man raped his daughter almost daily for 30 years in a case that echoes the incest crimes of Josef Fritzl in Austria.

A court psychiatrist yesterday described how Josef Fritzl had locked up his daughter as a way of compensating for a loveless childhood.

Josef Fritzl, the man who kept his daughter in a cellar for 24 years and fathered her seven children, has told a psychiatrist he was ”born to rape”.