child abuse

Daniel Norton met the girl on a dating website and persuaded her to send him photos and videos of ever more degrading acts, Southampton Crown Court heard.

Amanda R. Wright and Besline Joseph face multiple child abuse charges in relation to the treatment of three children in Maryland State.

The remains of 5-year-old Jordan Rodriguez were discovered in the back garden of a home shared by Larissa Rodriguez and her boyfriend Christopher Rodriguez, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Benjamin Lawrence Petty, 36, of Spencer, Oklahoma, has been sentenced to 15 years on probation after he accepted rape charges and a plea deal was arranged.

Michaela Sheldrake, 41, has been jailed for seven years after being caught with a huge stash of child porn and taking indecent pictures of a girl who she had groomed.

Melissa Miranda, 33, and her partner Josue Tovias, 28, were arrested on 27 January on suspicion of child abuse charges after the boy's appearance began changing at school.

"He allegedly sexually assaulted the toddler. When the baby girl fell unconscious and started bleeding, he panicked and fled," a police officer said.

Michael Begin Jr was already facing two counts of child molestation when additional 20 charges were brought against him on 26 January.

A UK man who left messages on an illicit paedophile chatroom saying that he had 'a preference for children aged 0+' has been sentenced to four years in prison.

Cordette Cole and Breanna Cole were arrested after investigators found that the child had extensive injuries including burns and bruises.

Doctors in Uzbekistan were left horrified when they discovered 16 sewing needles inside an 11-month-old baby.

Adil Sultan, originally from Pakistan, had travelled from Sunderland to Middlesbrough in August 2017 to meet the girl.

A 54-year-old man has been arrested after an 8-year-old girl died of stab wounds in hospital. The man is expected to be questioned shortly.

Dori Myers, who teaches social science at The New School for Leadership and the Arts in Kingsbridge, New York City, was arrested on Friday, 19 January, night.

Noor Alam, 34, has appeared at Swansea Crown Court to deny 14 counts of sexual assault against children under the age of 13, up until the summer of last year.

Little Li becomes unwitting social media star - but his story sparks wider debate about child cruelty.

Police arrested David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin in California after they allegedly found 13 siblings aged from 2 to 29-years-old being held captive.

Rajkumar Panneer Selvam had allegedly abused the minor girl when she was napping alone in her cabin.

Gonzalo Curiel, 20, and Tami Joy Huntsman, 42, face charges of murder and torturing three children then hiding their bodies in a storage unit.

The child's parents said that she complained about the guard after returning from school on 11 January.

Tory Gentry, from Snellville, near Atlanta, Georgia, faces charges of aggravated battery and first-degree cruelty to children after his child was found with large burn on his side.

Despite high-profile adoptions by likes of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, system can be easily infiltrated by child traffickers, warn rights groups.

Men who robbed a house 22 miles north of Durban in South Africa have made off with cash and four mobile phones. Victims were tied up and locked in a bedroom while the thieves tore a safe from the wall.

Three men who kidnapped, drugged and forced a 14-year-old girl into prostitution will be sentenced on 8 January.

A teacher of Carl Edward Brewer told investigators that the teen was "so starved for attention" that when she gave him a hug he "just melted".

Andrew Lee admitted to sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 13 at Hull Crown Court, but avoided jail.

A Florida man faces the death penalty after he beat a 7-year-old boy for sneaking out of bed to get a biscuit.

Pc Adam Cox, 31, was working in Parliamentary and Diplomatic Protection when he used the photo of a Canadian woman, who committed suicide at the age of 21, for an online alter ego.

Evan Brewer's body was found encased in a slab of concrete at a house where his mum and stepdad used to live in Wichita, Kansas, on 2 September.

Charlene Baxter, a 29-year-old woman who groomed a 13-year-old boy over Facebook before molesting him in a tent on a Dorset beach, has been jailed.