child abuse

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.

Rihanna, Kim Kardashian and others have shared an image of a post partly describing the circumstances leading child sex trafficking victim Cyntoia Brown to be jailed in 2004.

Stephen Wilkie, 52, from Ealing, was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment, suspended for two years, for watching child abuse.

Robert Burns travelled nearly 400 miles from Glasgow to Luton expecting to rape a girl of eight, but he was caught in a police sting.

Army combat medic Christopher Conway, 22, of Fort Campbell, Tennessee, USA, is charged with the homicide and aggravated rape of one of his newborn twin daughters.

Londoner Ian Barker, 61, was sentenced to 10 years behind bars for abusing two lads under his care in the Scouts' Islington branch between 1979 and 1981.

Kelly Shane Rice faces charges of unlawful sexual penetration, sex abuse and using a child in display of sexually explicit conduct.

The Kremlin has stepped in to ensure that should the mother avoid jail, the son doesn't end up in care of the woman.

Markiya Mitchell, the 25-year-old mother, admitted to committing the crime and leaving the baby submerged for over one hour.

A 40-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of abandonment of a minor after a boy was found in his car screaming because he was cold. The man was located in a nearby swingers club.

Curtis Van Dam was employed by Sioux Center Christian School, but is now behind bars facing a flood of sexual assault allegations made by pupils.

Two paedophiles in Ekaterinburg, Russia, reportedly kidnapped and raped a 12-year-old girl while filming the abuse for fellow child sex offenders on the internet.

Philip Ahr also resigned from the Radnor Township Board of Commissioners following his resignation as the board's president on 23 October.

A Washington state couple, Anthony and Mary Foxworth, are on the run after authorities found their emaciated 16-year-old son weighing just 54 pounds last year.

A Texas couple is accused of beating and abusing their two daughters and forcing one of them to eat cat faeces.

Officers who visited the Lexington couple's house for a welfare check found human and animal faeces and urine scattered around the home.

Priscilla Zapata had reportedly said she "lost it" when she saw that they had eaten the ice cream on the evening of 18 July.