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Oulu has banned asylum seekers from making visits to local schools and day care centres as an investigation into migrants abusing children in the city continues.

Shamol Miah has been given a short prison sentence after he drove a “very young and vulnerable” girl to a secluded area in his car, and raped her.

ISLAMABAD (AP) – Pakistani authorities and the British Embassy say police have arrested a British citizen who fled to Pakistan in 2016 during his trial in Britain. He was later sentenced to 19 years for raping a child.

Two Essex police detectives are accused of intentionally sabotaging a number of child sex abuse cases through a combination of “laziness” and “cynical disdain” for the alleged victims, London’s Old Bailey court has heard.

California State Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula (D-Fresno) was arrested Monday on charges of misdemeanor child cruelty, and Republicans are demanding that he resign.

Authorities arrested a California Democrat lawmaker on Monday on misdemeanor child cruelty charges, police said.

Gangs of predominantly Muslim men have been grooming and raping British Sikh girls for decades, with police often ignoring signs because of political correctness, according to a bombshell report.

London Police have failed bring a successful prosecution for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), despite almost 750 reports of the grisly crime dealt with by the force in the past five years.

Police in England have raised eyebrows by describing a transgendered paedophile’s pre-transition crimes as having been committed by a “woman”.

An unnamed asylum seeker living in Sweden has been sentenced to six months in prison after being found guilty of having sex with his ‘wife’, who was only 13-years-old at the time.

An Asian sex grooming gang which embarked on a “campaign of rape and other sexual abuse” against vulnerable teenage girls has been jailed, it can now be reported after censorship measures were lifted.

CONROE, Texas — Officials with the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office confirm they identified the father of a young boy apparently abandoned on a neighbor’s doorstep by his mother Wednesday night.

An imam has been convicted of abusing two young girls assigned to him for Qu’ran lessons in Newham, London.

A Dallas-area daycare owner is facing nine counts of child endangerment after local police say she tied children in car seats, locked them in a closet, and possibly gave them unnecessary medication for sedation purposes.

More than half of the senior figures in the Dutch Catholic Church have been accused of covering up or engaging in the sexual abuse of children, according to a report by the Netherlands’ leading newspaper.

A state senator called on the attorney general to investigate if “generations of hidden sexual abuse” in the Catholic Church occurred in New Jersey.

A man and woman have pleaded not guilty at the Old Bailey on Friday to the female genital mutilation (FGM) of a three-year-old girl.

There has been a 100 percent year-on-year rise in the number of forced marriage cases linked to Somali heritage youngsters, with many tricked into returning to Africa, where they are often detained and abused, officials say.

Siraj Wahhaj and the four other adults arrested at a filthy New Mexico compound where 11 starving children were held and one apparently died were released with bond on Monday. The decision stunned many observers of the case, given the clearly abusive treatment of the children, the outstanding warrant from Georgia against Wahhaj for kidnapping his own son, and the fact that children rescued from the camp told police they were being trained to conduct terrorist attacks on schools.

An alleged Islamic extremist, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, 39, planned to exorcise his son before he was arrested in a raid on a “filthy” New Mexico compound.

Horrifying details emerged on Wednesday in the case of Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, the son of an imam linked to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, who was arrested in New Mexico on charges of keeping 11 starving children in a filthy compound. According to court documents filed by prosecutors, Wahhaj was training the children to carry out school shootings.

Three rapists from the Rochdale child grooming gang will be stripped of British citizenship, as a top judge calls their predatory attacks “serious organised crime”.

UK police pushed charges after less than one in 38 forced marriage reports, with just three convictions in the four years since it was made illegal in the UK.

Social workers missed too many opportunities to protect a toddler who was murdered by her adoptive father because they saw the gay parents through a “positive lens” and failed to notice signs of abuse, an official report has revealed.

Government officials are handing visas to the husbands of girls who have been forcibly married, raped, and impregnated abroad, allowing them to settle in Britain permanently.

A couple who threatened to murder and “chop up” their daughter after tricking her into travelling to Bangladesh for a forced marriage with her cousin has been jailed for eight years.

The home secretary has ordered research into the ethnicity of grooming gangs and is working to improve the “targeting” of child sex abuse networks and “prevention activity.”

An Iranian migrant has been jailed after he dragged a child into a dead-end road in Glasgow and forced him to his knees before raping him.

A former Minneapolis daycare provider who attempted to hang a toddler in her home avoided prison Monday after a judge sentenced her to ten years of probation.

A reporter went undercover as a Facebook moderator and discovered that the company fails to remove examples of child abuse and violence.

59-year-old John Miller was arrested on Sunday for the rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl on Good Friday thirty years ago.

Around 4,500 new cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) were recorded in England over the last year, more than one every two hours, official data shows as experts demand a crackdown.

Six men have been jailed for the historic grooming and rape of six Oxford teenage girls in crimes against children the convicting judge called “sinister” and “predatory”.

New Mexico State Police investigators are searching for a man accused of injuring his child so badly that he is not expected to live. Police believe the man may be attempting to flee to Mexico to avoid prosecution.

A coalition of 56 members of Congress is calling upon the Department of Health and Human Services to investigate a pro-life group’s report that details Planned Parenthood’s alleged “decades-long history” of failing to report child abuse on behalf of young girls who schedule abortions at its clinics.

LONDON (AP) — A British jury has convicted a couple of attempting to force their teenage daughter to marry her first cousin in Bangladesh.