child abuse

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.

Spanish school expels pupils after allegations of rape and abuse of younger student raised by doctors.

Seven members of the Arcade Circus in Western Australia face a total of 127 charges including kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault of a child and making child pornography.

Lovily Johnson, 22, charged with first-degree murder and first-degree child abuse following the death of her son Noah Edward Johnson in July 2017.

Along with Brenton William Reid, his girlfriend Jennifer Buckler also faces charges after admitting to hitting the girl.

The 'highly manipulative' Cambridge graduate Dr Matthew Falder was found guilty of 137 offences at Birmingham Crown Court and will be sentenced this week.

A viral post from a girl's mother alleges that her daughter had her hair cut dramatically short "all over me having highlights put in her hair for her birthday".

A Saudi Arabian father reportedly punished his son for being the victim of a sexual assault by burning his genitals with an iron.

Dennis Batty was detained near at a holiday resort near Benidorm. Police in Alicante swooped on Batty five months after a UK court issued a European arrest warrant.

Germaine Moore, 44, from Alabama, is currently being held at Elmore County Jail after turning himself over to authorities when a warrant was issued for his arrest.

Parents Ginny Irovando and Robert Long made money from fake claim that 13-year-old son had cancer, police say.

Seven people - including five women - in New South Wales are facing a myriad of charges including rape, sexual assault of a child and aggravated kidnapping.

The sentencing comes a week after David Vincent Akins Jr was convicted of four counts of aggravated sexual assault of the three-month-old girl.

Erica Shyrock, 19, and her 18-year-old boyfriend, Charles Elliott, have been jailed for 5 years after their baby was bitten by rats in Magnolia, Arkansas.