child abuse

A 19-year-old victim of paedophile priest choked the abuser to death with a crucifix.

A teenage boy who went missing in 2017 was discovered in a suspected paedophile's cupboard.

A woman from Pennsylvania has been charged for having sexual intercourse with her dog and for hanging her two young children with the pet's leash in the basement.

Lee Vernon has been sentenced to life in prison for brutally murdering the infant.

To cover up the accidental death of their daughter, a couple tried to melt her dead body in acid at home.

A teacher in Ecuador taking an upskirt picture of a pupil during class has been suspended after he was recorded performing the disturbing act.

A 37-year-old man will be chemically castrated for abducting, raping and killing a nine-year-old girl.

Florida police found children and animals living in deplorable conditions in a polyamorous home.

Dean Petley paid two women over three years to watch them abuse young children on webcams.

The parents of the child alleged the female helpers inserted stones and a twig in the girl's private parts during the abuse, local media reported.

The 12-year-old victim was allegedly told that she would 'lose her guardian angels' if she reported the abuse by Jennifer Stevens and her husband, Michael Stevens.

Police in Colorado have arrested one of the attackers and are on the hunt for the other. The father holding the child was charged with a child abuse misdemeanor.

San Bernardino police discovered that the children were staying in the box on a property filled with junk and piles of human faeces.

Mother Sharon Carrillo, 33, and the dead girl's stepfather Julio Carrillo, 51, have been charged with murdering 10-year-old Marrissa Kennedy in Stockton Springs, Maine.

Pervert John Bodycombe, 58, of Bridgend, Wales, was found guilty of 14 counts of indecent assault at Newport Crown Court, on Helen Pearce and her brothers David and Andrew Pearce.

A six-month-old baby has died after his mother's fiance allegedly through him against the wall when mistaking him for a spider.

Samuel Shaffer is leader of a fundamentalist Mormon sect called the Knights of the Crystal Blade, which promoted polygamy along with a range of other sexual practices.

A baby boy who was just 41-days-old at the time has had both his legs amputated after suffering abuse from his parents.

Venables was recalled to prison for the second time after over 1,000 child abuse images were found on his laptop.

Crystal Uribe, 23, and Charles Uribe, 28, were arrested after their baby daughter was diagnosed with multiple injuries and fractures in Miller County, Arkansas.

Byron White has now been charged with nine counts of third-degree rape and continuous sexual abuse of a child.

Madan Lal, 45, of Ponteland, Northumbria, was planning to meet a 15-year-old boy from gay dating app Grindr as he is spared jail and handed a community order.

Tawny Symonds had been accused of sexually abusing the child, but that charge was dropped as part of a plea deal that saw her sentenced only for child endangerment.

Deividas Subacius filmed himself punching a toddler and then sent the video to the girl's grandparents threatening to hurt the child more if they did not send money.

Richard Papworth, 26, posed as a sexually adventuress young woman online, filling out his top so it looked like he had women's breasts.

Police have arrested and charged a man who allegedly smacked a two-year-old boy three times in a Georgia supermarket.

Students complained that Vishwambaran used to force them to engage in oral and penetrative sex after getting drunk in the night.

Paedophile Jordana Davidson, of Rosehill Road, Rhyl, was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Mold Crown Court after being found guilty of five counts of sexual activity with a child

Arwyn Cellan Thomas, 49, from Morristown, Swansea, collapsed in the dock at Swansea Crown Court when he was found guilty of 15 charges relating to historic sexual abuse of children

An American man accused of abducting his children and initiating them into a Doomsday cult may have also been planning to kill his son, who he believed was possessed.