child abuse

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.

The girl, 10, begged a neighbour to convince her mother that Sean Payton had sexually abused her.

Liverpool Crown Court heard how Benjamin Jones, 32, from Moreton, Merseyside, boasted online to other paedophiles about how he 'got lucky' filming the children.

Lovily K Johnson is accused of leaving her baby strapped in a car seat in 30C temperatures while it starved to death but a lawyer thinks she should not be prosecuted

Wolverhampton mother and stepfather jailed after neglecting 12-year-old for three years until she was removed from their care.

"We are shocked beyond words," Vungle's new CEO Rick Tallman, who was previously COO and CFO of Vungle, said.

Glen Haskell was arrested for felony child cruelty after allegedly shaking his 2-week-old son to the point of breaking his arms.

Dawn Davies, from Manchester, abused an 11-year-old boy over a two-year period before being convicted of 12 counts of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.

Fortune Aragua, 25, raped the 13-year-old who was wearing her school uniform - but didn't bank on her mother's courage.

Kevin Fowler and Aislyn Miller each face 130 years in prison after being convicted of five counts of child neglect against their twin infant daughters.

The FBI said they arrested 120 human trafficking suspects in the 4-day operation between from 12 and 15 October. Operation Cross Country XI was enforced in 55 FBI field offices.

David Earl Vickers, 31, from Florida, has been charged with second degree murder, child abuse and grand theft after the murder of Luca Sholey, his girlfriend's son.

The 46-year-old man is suspected of molesting the boys, aged 12, 15 and 16, in an art gallery in Batam where he used to teach.

NCA officials searched his house and seized devices including two computers. The girl in the video stream was later identified and her abuser arrested.