While the statute of limitations was extended to 20 years in 2019, the 2022 Adult Survivors Act provided victims of sexual misconduct in New York with a one-year “lookback window,” which ran from November 24, 2022, until November 24, 2023, giving them the opportunity to raise claims that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations.

An Arizona judge has dismissed a high-profile child sexual abuse lawsuit against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ruling that church officials who knew that a church member was sexually abusing his daughter had no duty to report the abuse to police or social service agencies because the information was received during a spiritual confession.

A Monmouth County man, recently hired as a school bus driver, was arrested and charged with possession and distribution of child sex abuse materials after a tip came through the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children that he was distributing them on social media.

A 47-year-old former C.I.A. officer from La Mesa, CA, who worked at the American Embassy in Mexico City pleaded guilty to drugging and sexually assaulting more than two dozen women, both in the US and abroad, over a period of nearly 20 years.

A lawyer for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland argued before the ME Supreme Court elimination of time limits on child sex abuse lawsuits is unconstitutional and imposes new liabilities, a reference to costly lawsuits that have driven some dioceses into bankruptcy.

After a previously untested rape kit was tested, 58-year-old Erwin King was arrested and charged with first-degree rape and first-degree kidnapping, for a 25-year-old sexual assault.

Melissa Curtis, a 31-year-old former middle school teacher in Maryland, has been arrested on allegations she sexually abused a 14-year-old student more than 20 times in 2015.

A former player has sued the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks, accusing the team of overlooking his complaints that coach Brad Aldrich sexually assaulted him leading up to the 2010 Stanley Cup Finals, with the lawsuit alleging, that the Blackhawks put “Stanley Cup Championship aspirations ahead of the welfare of its players and provided cover to a sexual predator on its coaching staff who groomed, harassed, threatened, and assaulted John Doe.”