child abuse

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.

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".