child abuse

Hungary's Orbán government faces a child abuse scandal after a dossier revealed 3,300 cases in state care and a controversial presidential pardon sparked outrage.

Crisnel Longino Dec 13, 2025

The child was struck by her mother 22 times within a span of just 15 seconds while the 12-year-old cried and screamed in pain.

Adrienne Martinez Nov 24, 2025

Baby P's mother Tracey Connelly talked about her son's death and why it happened during her parole hearing.

Shiena Iane B Enerio Oct 23, 2025

Joshlin Smith, 6, disappeared last February, never to be seen again. Her mother, her boyfriend and their friend have recently been convicted of kidnapping and trafficking the young girl, with investigators fearing they sold her to a traditional healer in exchange for drug money.

Andrea Tode Jimenez May 31, 2025

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

Andrea Tode Jimenez Mar 12, 2025

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.

Andrea Tode Jimenez Feb 19, 2025

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

Andrea Tode Jimenez Feb 05, 2025

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

Andrea Tode Jimenez Jan 23, 2025

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.

Andrea Tode Jimenez Dec 15, 2024

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

Andrea Tode Jimenez Dec 09, 2024

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.

Raisa Tan Nov 15, 2024

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

Vinay Patel Sep 25, 2024

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

Vinay Patel Aug 07, 2024

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

Vinay Patel Mar 28, 2024

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.

Danielle Summer Mar 04, 2024

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

Jastine Beatrice Yap Jan 17, 2024

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.

Pratiti Nath Oct 30, 2023

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.

Taylor J. Mustafa Jul 10, 2023

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.

Danielle Summer May 16, 2023

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

Jastine Beatrice Yap Apr 12, 2023

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

Jastine Beatrice Yap Apr 06, 2023

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.

Sadhna Yadav Jan 05, 2023

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

Jastine Beatrice Yap Nov 16, 2022

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

Sadhna Yadav Oct 27, 2022

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

Jastine Beatrice Yap Oct 21, 2022

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

Jastine Beatrice Yap Oct 18, 2022

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

Sadhna Yadav Aug 03, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Jul 05, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Jun 09, 2022

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.

Sadhna Yadav Mar 04, 2022