News media are powerful institutions that both construct and reproduce public understanding of child sexual abuse. The Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (2013–2017) was pivotal in raising this hidden issue and providing a language for discussion, yet its reporting followed “hierarchies of attention” that privileged abuse by powerful institutions over the vulnerable. Since 2017, transformative changes in media and technology have coincided with a rapid increase in online child sexual abuse crimes, though little is known about their impact on children’s representations. This chapter examines how the public child is brought into view through news media reporting. Analysis of Australian media coverage from 2020 to 2022 shows that child sexual abuse is framed as external threats and dangers perpetrated by unknown offenders. Sensationalist reporting—especially of celebrity cases—renders the child nameless, faceless and voiceless. Media reporting can inform or distort community understanding about the severe and lasting impacts of child sexual abuse as well as the laws, institutions, and systems that can compound the trauma of victims and survivors as they seek justice, redress, and reclaim their previously silenced voices..