child abuse

MPs are pushing the criminalisation of nonconsensual photographs of Muslim women without their hijab on the same level as child exploitation material.

A 34-year-old mother of 3 has been arrested for abandoning her three children in squalor in 2020. The children have not attended school or gone outside for 4 years.

New findings regarding Lucy Letby's are making expert's question the validity of her conviction for the deaths of 7 infants.

Iraq's parliament ammended a law protecting girls against child marriage, now allowing brides as young as 9 years old.

A nanny accused of violently abusing a two-day-old baby in California fled to China after being caught on camera, sparking outrage and calls for justice.

Malika Noor Al Katib, 8, was brutally murdered by Mohammad Shaker Al Tamimi, who stabbed her and her mother in their home.

The lenient sentencing of a 26-year-old trainee teacher from Oxford, who was convicted of possessing and distributing over 1,000 explicit videos and images of child sexual abuse, including the rape of newborns and toddlers, has sparked widespread outrage.

Florida coach arrested for child sexual abuse after refusing to give up a child who had spent the night at his residence.

A teacher has warned parents about the dangers of oversharing personal information in back-to-school photos.

Florida's new social media law for minors could face legal challenges amid concerns over child safety and First Amendment rights.

After launching an AI chatbot trial in 2022, millions of people have been interrupted while searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub's UK website.

The Internet Watch Foundation reported the identification of self-generated child sexual abuse material involving children under 10 on over 100,000 web pages.

Tech companies could be charged 10 per cent of their revenue if they don't take action to protect children against online abuse as per the Online Safety Act, the world's first legal duty against social media platforms.

A recent study from King's College London has suggested that the way childhood abuse and/or neglect is processed affects mental health more than the experience.

More than 500 people affiliated with the "starvation cult" in southeast Kenya are still missing, and the death toll has risen to over 200 people being found in mass graves scattered around the forest.

This holiday aims to promote the rights of street children and provide them with access to education, healthcare and other essential services.

National Childhelp Day of Hope was created to increase awareness and highlight the issue of child abuse and neglect.

The Conservative government has ordered all of Britain's police forces to redouble their efforts to root out any officers accused of corruption, sex crimes or other offences.

The actors who played Romeo and Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film have filed a lawsuit against Paramount Pictures over a nude scene featuring them.

Scully garnered attention from law enforcement when he promoted his hurtcore show which featured the sexual abuse of little girls as young as 18 months

A US man has been accused of burying his daughter alive in a pit and leaving her there overnight as a form of punishment.

The police were able to unearth exchanges between Parkinson and his wife where they discussed raping and assaulting children.

This is the first time that someone has stepped forward to take allegations against Lord Mountbatten into court.

A man in Kazakhstan has been forcibly castrated for raping his eight-year-old stepdaughter over a period of three years.

A court in Russia has sentenced a paedophile to 19 years in prison for sexually abusing a 7-year-old boy and holding him hostage for 52 days.

A 36-year-old Florida man has been convicted of abusing his stepson almost a year after a waitress managed to save the boy from his father.

Sara Browne, of women's rights organisation IKWRO, said criminalising the organising of child marriages and increasing oversight are also key.

A 27-year-old man from Lanarkshire, Scotland has been sentenced to 14 months in prison for neglecting and keeping his daughter without food for almost a day which eventually led to her death. The incident had taken place in December 2017, just five days before Christmas.

A nine-year-old boy who was allegedly raped by his 12-year-old batchmate could not get justice because the school botched up the investigation into the matter. The incident took place at Appletree Treatment Centre in Cumbria in 2006. The school caters to children who have been abused or neglected.

Two of the children had disabilities, and couldn't care for themselves