institutional abuse

The Good Spirit: Behind the Doors of Opus Dei is a Spanish HBO Max documentary series that exposes alleged psychological, spiritual and financial abuse within the Catholic organization Opus Dei. It is built on testimony from 14 former male members from 11 countries.

SanPa: Sins of the Savior is a Netflix docuseries about San Patrignano, a drug rehab commune in Italy, and the violence and murder allegations surrounding its founder Vincenzo Muccioli.

Netflix docuseries covering the 2012 murder and dismemberment of São Paulo executive Marcos Matsunaga, allegedly committed by his wife Elize, featuring her first-ever on-camera interview.

R. Kelly: The Verdict is a 2021 Apple TV documentary directed by Jordan Hill about R&B star R. Kelly's federal conviction on all nine counts of racketeering and sex trafficking in Brooklyn, New York.

Sins of Our Mother is a Netflix docuseries about the Vallow-Daybell murders — Lori Vallow Daybell and Chad Daybell, charged in the deaths of her two children and others.

Menendez Brothers: Misjudged? is an HBO Max documentary about Erik and Lyle Menendez, convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents in Beverly Hills in 1989.

Hillsong: A Megachurch Exposed is a Discovery+ docuseries about the sprawling scandal inside Hillsong Church, centering on child sex abuse cover-ups, pastor misconduct, and the criminal prosecution of founder Brian Houston.

Journalistens dobbeltliv is a DRTV documentary series about the Danish case of a former Ekstra Bladet journalist convicted of sexual crimes against more than 40 children.

How to Create a Sex Scandal is an HBO Max docuseries about the 2005 Mineola, Texas child-abuse hoax, arguing that coerced testimony sent at least six people to prison for crimes that never happened.

Tro, håb og voldtægt is a 2024 Danish TV 2 Play documentary about Kiran Vesterholm, who says her husband Peter drugged and raped her up to 40 times — and the Mormon church buried it.

Bøgholts Misbrugte Børn is a TV 2 Play documentary series about systematic sexual abuse and violence against children at the Bøgholt institution near Aarhus, Denmark, spanning from the late 1970s to the mid-1990s.

Netflix docuseries about the Academy at Ivy Ridge, a New York boarding school accused of abusing teenagers between 2001 and 2009, directed by survivor Katherine Kubler.

Institutional scandal in which British undercover police officers deceived women into intimate relationships while infiltrating activist groups over decades.

The Jesus Army case is a widespread institutional abuse scandal involving the Jesus Fellowship Church in the UK, where multiple leaders and members committed sexual and physical abuse over decades.

Fred and Rose West were an English serial-killer couple who murdered at least 12 girls and young women in Gloucestershire, mainly at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester.

Lucy Letby, a British neonatal nurse, was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at Countess of Chester Hospital between 2015 and 2016.

Spanish cinema manager Lluís Gros Martín was sentenced to 24 years for child sexual abuse but remained at liberty for an extended period, sparking a 2024 documentary investigation.

The Koh Tao murders are a controversial 2014 Thai double homicide in which British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were killed on Sairee Beach, resulting in disputed convictions.

A U.S. government program that forcibly removed thousands of Native American children from their families for adoption by white families between 1958 and 1967.

Ruby McCollum, a wealthy Black woman, shot and killed white physician Dr. C. Leroy Adams Jr. in Live Oak, Florida on August 3, 1952, sparking a racially divisive trial.