Institutional abuse

A 44-year-old Taekwondo coach accused by five former students of raping them when they were minors over a period of 11 years was sent to jail after testifying for several hours before an investigative magistrate on Monday.

Catholic bishops in Canada apologized on Sept. 24 "unequivocally" to Indigenous peoples for the suffering endured in residential schools, just as Pope Francis prepares to meet with Indigenous leaders at the Vatican later this fall.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on May 31 it's not an isolated incident that over 200 children were found buried at a former Indigenous residential school.

Trudeau's comments come as Indigenous leaders are calling for an examination of every former residential school site, institutions that held children taken from families across the nation.

A court in Ankara has sentenced a father to 12 years and three months in prison for sexually abusing his son and for inappropriate behavior against his youngest daughter, but has dismissed the alleged abuse cases related to his three elder daughters due to the "statute of limitation."

U.S. White House staff secretary Rob Porter resigned on Feb. 7 following accusations of domestic abuse from two former wives.

Officers of the Rafina Port Authority on Thursday detained a 39-year-old man alleged to have physically abused a dog. The suspect was arrested after a local resident informed the authorities about the alleged abuse, details of which were not made public.

Penalties for animal abuse have been toughened several times in recent years as cases have proliferated. 

The house of a 16-year-old sexual abuse victim, whose assailant was re-arrested after being freed despite being sentenced to a prison term, was attacked on Oct. 4 by two men who fired bullets into the air near her dwelling in the Marmaraereğlisi district of northwestern province of Tekirdağ.