child abuse

U.S. Marshals have joined the search for actor/director Timothy Busfield after a warrant for his arrest was issued on January 9.

The Swedish government promised on Friday to fight the sale of childlike sex dolls online.

Police arrested a decorated teacher in Alabama this week after her son posted a video online that appears to show her beating his 12-year-old brother at least 22 times with a belt.

Professionals and neighbours didn’t speak before a child was murdered by her Pakistani family because they feared the “racist” label.

An Afghan man deemed psychologically ill faced a German court on Thursday over a deadly knife attack on a group of toddlers.

A grooming gang ringleader and six of his accomplices were handed jail sentences in a case that highlighted serious government failings, including where the social care system branded a 10-year-old girl a prostitute and did nothing to help her.

An illegal alien is accused of leaving an infant in critical condition in Loudon County, Virginia, after allegedly strangling her.

People have showered an alleged car thief in a California jail with donations after she beat up a fellow inmate who is charged, along with her husband, with torturing and killing her eight-year-old stepdaughter.

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has come under fire after an internal document revealed that its chatbots were permitted to engage in “sensual” conversations with children. According to the AI standards document, Meta felt it was appropriate to tell an eight-year-old boy that “every inch of you is a masterpiece – a treasure I cherish deeply.”

A 43-year-old asylum seeker from Pakistan appeared this week before a court in London on charges of allegedly raping an eight-year-old girl multiple times.

 New Zealand’s former deputy police commissioner was named after he was charged with possessing child exploitation and bestiality material.

A child abuse investigation led authorities to the giant home of a couple in Arcadia, California, where they found 21 young children, some of whom were birthed by surrogate mothers, according to police. 

GMP made “significant improvements” to investigating gangs, but historic failures sees backlog of over 700 victims and 1,000 suspects.

A New York father’s two-year-old son was alive when he allegedly threw him off a bridge in New York.

A mother whose toddler’s body was found in a dresser drawer after the one-year-old girl had been thrown on the floor by her boyfriend will be spending 25 years in prison, while the boyfriend was sentenced to nearly twice that for his role in the child’s death.

An illegal alien, accused of murdering his 6-year-old son last week, had been shielded from federal immigration enforcement.

Former Browns and Buccaneers linebacker Adarius Taylor has been arrested on two counts of child abuse allegations in Florida, according to TMZ Sports.

Colorado Democrats used their House majority to ram through radical transgender and abortion bills on Sunday and specifically employed procedural rules to limit debate and silence opposition.

A massive international pedophile network spanning across over 30 countries was shut down, and dozens of arrests were made relating to child pornography, the Europol police agency announced on Wednesday.

Colorado Democrats are proposing a bill that would classify “misgendering” and “deadnaming” as forms of child abuse, or “coercive control,” that would be considered in child custody disputes.

A panel of experts testified to the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday that Chinese companies mining for “green” energy minerals throughout Africa – particularly in resource-rich countries such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), are creating a “catastrophic and unacceptable” situation for locals.

A mother in Cape May County, New Jersey, is accused of forcing her child to wear a dog’s shock collar and is facing charges in the case.

A substitute teacher in Jacksonville, Florida, is accused of encouraging students to violently gang up on a classmate.

A young American woman on a European trip taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris.

A left-wing, vampire-obsessed after-school program teacher is accused of sexually abusing two young girls for years at a Harlem school in New York and filming child sex abuse material, according to a new lawsuit reported on by the New York Post.

Rudakubana won’t necessarily spend his whole life in jail because he was days shy of his 18th birthday when he attacked.

A man in the U.S. illegally has been charged with assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Florida after police followed DNA evidence.

A victim of a Pakistani child rape grooming gang joined Nigel Farage and Reform UK to demand a national public inquiry into the abuse of young girls in Britain and the failures of authorities to protect them.

The baby was placed on a ventilator because his injuries deprived his brain of oxygen and caused swelling, according to local reports.

A Detroit-area public school teacher was arrested after allegedly making a drug deal in public, police said.

Police said they have been reviewing dozens of videos from inside the NICU and are re-examining cases from 2023 and 2024 as part of a broader investigation.

Germany’s federal prosecutor on Monday charged an Iraqi couple with enslavement, torture and war crimes.

Three adults in Texas are accused of locking a 6-year-old boy in their care inside a dryer and turning it on.

A German court has heard a DNA test after a 12-year-old girl had an abortion, allegedly revealing her own father had impregnated her. 

A Florida woman has been arrested for allegedly instructing a 10-year-old girl to kill a two-month-old baby via the Roblox gaming platform, with the local sheriff saying he has “never seen anything quite like this.”

Bolivian police announced that a woman allegedly raped as a child by socialist former President Evo Morales is missing.