child abuse

Santangela Turner allegedly claimed that she left the three-month-old girl in the woods after trying to kill her.

California couple Vincent Calogero and Sarah Nilson accused of putting their own children up for sale to fund drugs habit.

Miraz Triggs, 46, will stand before Chelmsford Crown Court in January after admitting making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children.

A 19-year-old California man faces life in jail after he allegedly tortured and murdered two children.

Javier Morales, 28, was arrested on charges of rape, sex abuse, resisting arrest and obstructing for a case in New York City.

Ana Maria Cardona was found guilty during two earlier trials, but those were later dismissed by the Florida Supreme Court.

A Cardiff man who groomed a 13-year-old girl and arranged to have sex with her in a park has been jailed after being caught by a group of so-called "paedophile hunters".

The Ohio woman appeared in a video holding, entertaining and positioning the toddler while a man filmed himself abusing the child, court documents allege.

A partially-blind paedophile jailed after walking into a branch of Carphone Warehouse and saying the words 'nude children' to his phone.

Psychotherapist Maude Julien writes in memoir The Only Girl in the World about childhood trauma inflicted by abusive father who gave her electric shocks and alcohol.

Members of grooming gangs convicted since 2005 were 84% Asian, counter-extremism organisation Quilliam warns after Rochdale child sex abuse scandal.

30-year-old Alex Harrison was arrested after reports said a video surfaced appearing to show a man beat a child and shave her head because she downloaded Snapchat.

Adrian Bellenger, former abbot of Downside Abbey, accuses predecessor Father Richard Yeo of encouraging sex abuse and sheltering child sex offenders.

Merseyside resident Alexander Dobbie was handed a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to two counts of making indecent images and one count of possessing them.

The boy was burned with cigarettes during a 36-hour ordeal prior to the alleged sex attack in a disabled toilet in the Bristol's Children's Hospital, Bristol.

Trey Sims was under investigation for sending explicit images to his 15-year-old girlfriend when detective David Abbott obtained a warrant to photograph his "erect penis".

The 28-year old woman shared the video as a Facebook Live broadcast, which showed a girl and two boys aged between five and eight.

Stephen Stott, 23, and Dean Jones, 34, were arrested after US Homeland Security investigators discovered large groups of paedophiles watching rape videos together.

Eighth grade teacher Kris Burghart takes leave from Stuart Middle School in Commerce City, Colorado, pending investigation.

Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry into allegations at Lanark's Smyllum Park orphanage hear catalogue of abuse and punishment claims by former child resident.

Randle Maddox reportedly faces charges after the sheriff's department say he threw a bottle at his girlfriend and dragged his newborn through shards of glass.

A 39-year-old Pittsburgh man will spend the rest of his life in jail after he was found guilt of first-degree murder of his fiance's eight-year-old son.

Jowi Morales, 18, claimed that it was not her in the video hitting her child, but refrained from disclosing who did it.

Derick Boyce-Slezak and his wife Mikala, both 22, from Park Hills, Missouri, have been charged with felony abuse or neglect of their baby boy.

Italian police arrested a priest working in the parish of the village of Sant'Agata who, for at least three years, is alleged to have raped several children under the age of 14.

Christopher Elwell, 29, who sexually assaulted a four-year-old girl, had just been jailed for up to 15 years by a judge at Strafford County Superior Court, New Hampshire.

Poppi Worthington died in December 2012 with a family judge ruling that on the balance of probabilities her father 'perpetrated a penetrative assault' on his daughter.

A 56-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman were arrested and later released under investigation after the boy was found dead in Nechells, Birmingham early on Sunday (26 November).

Adults with witchcraft and demonic possession beliefs responsible for almost 1,500 child abuse cases each year warns Churches' Child Protection Advisory Service.

John Kilpatrick has been jailed for 44 months after he posed as a talent scout for top London modelling agency BMA Models asking girls to send increasingly revealing photographs.