The 21-year-old football coach secretly filmed children from at least five primary schools between November 2017 and December 2018 at a swimming pool in the canton of Lucerne.
The Swiss Bishops' Conference on Wednesday pledged to make it mandatory to report sexual abuse of adults in the Catholic church, even without the victim's permission.
Prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, in detention in France over rape allegations, is suffering from multiple sclerosis, but could be treated behind bars, according to judicial medical opinion.
Swiss prosecutors on Wednesday ruled out bringing charges over the latest rape allegations against filmmaker Roman Polanski because the statute of limitations for the alleged 1972 assault had expired.
Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan has taken a leave of absence from the University of Oxford following multiple rape and sexual
misconduct allegations, the British institution said on Tuesday.
A former theatre teacher convicted of having sex and sado-masochistic relations with adolescent girls who were his pupils, over a 10-year period, was sentenced by a Lausanne magistrates’ court on Thursday to five years in jail.
A criminal court in Nyon in the canton of Vaud on Thursday sentenced a 64-year-old financial manager to nine years in jail for raping a 11-year-old girl and sexually abusing another girl.
A Zurich court on Tuesday jailed a 36-year-old swim instructor for four and a half years for sexually abusing two boys, including one of them over a five-year period.
<p>A 28-year-old man has been sentenced to ten years in prison for posing as a girl in internet chat-rooms, luring two girls to meet him and then sexually abusing them.</p>
<p>A dentist accused of indecent exposure and performing sexual acts on patients has been sentenced to 15 months in prison with no parole and a hefty fine.</p>
<p><span lang="EN-GB">A recent study has shown that while sexual assaults on younger children are most often committed by family members, adolescents are more often abused by their peers.</span></p>
