Victims of Jimmy Savile, the former BBC TV presenter who after his death was unmasked as one of Britain’s most prolific sex offenders, said they were ignored or laughed at when they tried to report that he had abused them, a report said.

Patients in hospital beds; star-struck teenagers in a TV show audience; pupils at a school for troubled girls; a 10-year-old autograph hunter.

Almost 1,000 children received counselling for sexual abuse in the North last year, it was revealed today.

WHAT has emerged in recent weeks about the cover-up of sex abuse complaints in the Diocese of Cloyne has been nothing short of shameful.

IN his article on the profile of child abusers (Analysis, The Irish Examiner, February 3), Shane Dunphy states: “While abusers are generally male, I have dealt with numerous cases involving female perpetrators, and have been involved in research projects that suggest that as many as 13% of children who have experienced abuse did so at the hands of a female family member”.

Peter Andre has been made an ambassador for the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in Britain.

Three convicted sex offenders are working in schools in Northern Ireland, the British government admitted today.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is joining Kylie Minogue as an ambassador of UK children's charity the National Society For The Prevention Of Cruelty To Children (NSPCC).

NO reference was made to sexual abuse in the State’s first official document referring to non-accidental injury of children, the Inquiry into Child Abuse heard yesterday.