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# Abuse

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Top Vatican cardinal being investigated by police over child abuse claims
'No one deserves to be the target of abuse online, and it has no place on Twitter'
Man in Malawi arrested after having sex with 100 young women and children in 'ritual cleansing'
Man arrested on suspicion of human trafficking after woman reported being raped
Ghostbusters star wants Twitter to fight trolls after barrage of racist abuse
Judge tells religious order to hand over priests' files to abuse victim
Man sentenced to 12 years for raping and sexually abusing three step-children
"I had looked on him as part of my family" - Man convicted for sexually abusing two young boys
Who's going to sit on the abortion assembly?
Woman says she felt "like a chained up animal" during father's abuse
Gardaí get new crime scene kits to collect evidence at domestic violence calls
"We will kill you": Irish politicians speak out against online abuse
Woman abused by Eamon Cooke as a child says he 'had it in him' to kill Philip Cairns
Man told his wife “I can rape you if I want” before threatening to cut her face open, trial hears
Late British MP and broadcaster accused of abusing two girls
"So many people died in the desert. We saw dead bodies, skeletons" - The horror stories of children seeking a new life
Man who was sexually abused for years by active garda settles action with State
Man who sexually abused four young daughters in "horror of a home" sentenced to four and a half years
Man who raped two children - one who has Down syndrome - sentenced to 6 years
Mother and partner convicted of murdering two-year-old boy in Scotland
Man who abused young girl staying in his house jailed for five years
60 charges withdrawn in Waterford child abuse trial
Man jailed for nine years over abusing his partner's daughter
Child agency admits it's "aware" of case of alleged sexual abuse at foster home in southwest
Here's What Happened Today: Sunday
Teenager with intellectual disabilities left in foster home despite allegations of sexual abuse
Catholic priest visited girl's family home after she made abuse allegation
Irish nurses are abused so often that many don't bother reporting it
Man charged with sexual assault after extradition from Spain
Gardaí to begin excavating south Dublin garden in search for 'dead babies'
Gardaí to dig at south Dublin house after claims that two babies were killed there
Father threatened partner into having sex with their son, court told
Boy who alleges parents abused him was abused while in foster care, court told
'There should be national outrage': 20% rise in reports of abuse in elderly care homes
Nursing home residents abused and 'left short of food as staff ate it'
Leaving an abusive relationship: He knocked me into a wall when I dared to speak back
Anonymous
A French hairdresser was called 'a dirty f****t' by his boss but it 'wasn't homophobic'
Mother and father charged with rape and sexual exploitation of their young son
James Connolly's great-great-granddaughter told to 'go home' from 1916 event because of English accent