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Curated cuts of the case database — by the offender's occupation, by crime type, by decade, and by editorial category. Every topic page surfaces the matching cases ranked by recency.
By occupation
Occupation
Teachers
Cases where the offender was a schoolteacher, professor, or tutor — typically grooming or abusing students under their direct authority.
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Occupation
Coaches
Sports coaches, athletic trainers, and youth-team staff who used their position to access and abuse athletes in their care.
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Occupation
Medical professionals
Nurses, doctors, therapists, and other clinicians who exploited the trust and intimacy of medical care to commit sexual offences.
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Occupation
Law enforcement
Police officers, corrections staff, and other personnel who used their authority to coerce or abuse victims they encountered through their job.
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Occupation
Religious figures
Clergy, youth-ministry staff, and other church-affiliated offenders.
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Occupation
Family members
Mothers, stepmothers, aunts, and other relatives whose offending occurred within the family unit.
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Occupation
Babysitters & caregivers
Babysitters, nannies, daycare workers, and other non-relative caregivers whose offences occurred during care.
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By crime type
Crime type
Grooming
Cases prosecuted as grooming — the deliberate, escalating cultivation of a relationship with a minor for later abuse.
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Crime type
Statutory rape
Cases prosecuted as statutory rape — sexual contact with a minor below the age of consent regardless of the minor's stated willingness.
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Crime type
Production of CSAM
Cases involving the production of child sexual abuse material — typically the gravest charges in the database.
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Crime type
Sexual abuse
Cases of sexual abuse — the broadest charging category in the database, covering contact offences against minors.
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Crime type
Sexual assault
Sexual-assault cases — offences against victims at or above the age of consent.
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By decade
Decade
The 2020s
Cases from the 2020s — the most recently documented decade, with the largest share of digital evidence.
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Decade
The 2010s
Cases from the 2010s. The decade in which smartphone-era digital evidence became the prosecution norm.
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Decade
The 2000s
Cases from the 2000s — the decade in which early-internet evidence first reached courts at scale.
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Decade
The 1990s
Cases from the 1990s. Mostly print-source, occasional early-internet records.
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Decade
The 1980s
Cases from the 1980s. Newspaper archive era.
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The 1970s
Cases from the 1970s — newspaper archives and contemporaneous journalism only.
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Decade
The 1960s
Cases from the 1960s, sourced from archival reporting.
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Decade
The 1950s
Cases from the 1950s, sourced from archival reporting.
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Decade
Pre-1950
Historical cases from before 1950.
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