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The number of sexual offences committed against children in Sadiq Khan’s London has soared to 1,200 in the last year, new figures show.

Police announced that arrests have been made in connection with an investigation into child sex exploitation (CSE) gangs targeting “vulnerable, underage” girls in Bury parks.

A Texas teen mentor and founder of a nonprofit youth organization pleaded guilty Monday to the charge of sexual exploitation of a child, also known as production of child pornography, announced Abe Martinez, acting U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Texas.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced Monday a $260,000 grant to support the prosecutorial efforts of a newly established “Crimes Against Children” unit within the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office.

Officers have said they are investigating almost 200 cases of child sex abuse in Keighley, prompting fears of a ‘new Rochdale’ grooming gang in the small Yorkshire town. West Yorkshire Police are reportedly investigating 179 new sex crimes involving 165

Actor Ashton Kutcher sent a little love to Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) Wednesday during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing focused on ending modern slavery and child sexual exploitation.

Backpage.com has closed its adult advertising section after two state attorneys general and a U.S. Senate panel has focused a light on its ads. The classified ads website has long been criticized for facilitating the promotion of sex trafficking, sometimes allegedly involving minors. The CEO was arrested in October.

Another pimp has been busted for prostituting a minor on Backpage.

A new therapeutic, $6.5 million, faith-based, 50-acre safe haven for sex trafficked girls aged 11-17 is coming to Texas. It will be the nation’s first and largest long-term comprehensive residential rehabilitative facility of its kind. “When we talk about domestic victims, we are talking about girls born and raised in the United States and they are trafficked in the United States, often city to city and state to state,” said Brooke Crowder, founder and director of the non-profit Refuge for DMST (Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking) in an interview with Breitbart Texas. Crowder said the project breaks ground in the Austin-area later this month.

A former number two at the US Department of Homeland Security is forcing the United Nations to confront one of the worst crises in its history: sexual abuse by peacekeepers. Jane Holl Lute, who also served on the White House’s

After two months of hearing the evidence, the jury in the Rotherham abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court is now considering its verdicts for those accused of participating in an alleged Rotherham child grooming ring. Since December the jury has heard allegations of

The ringleader of the Rochdale child sex grooming gang has claimed he was convicted due to a conspiracy to “scapegoat” Muslims in Britain. Shabir Ahmed, 63, was convicted of multiple child sex offences in 2012, but has now written to

A Muslim Conservative Councillor in Bradford has admitted that some local Muslims believe child victims of Muslim sex-grooming gangs are complicit in their abuse. “They believe it takes two to tango,” he said. His comments come after 12 Muslim men

A boss of a children’s charity has told the Rotherham abuse trial there is “no truth whatsoever” in the allegation that she provided vulnerable girls to Asian men for sex. Karen MacGregor, 58, faces three charges in relation to child sexual exploitation crimes in

Sheffield Crown Court has heard that one of the Rotherham abuse trial defendants was a police cadet at the time of his alleged child sexual exploitation offences. The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial was told that in the 1990s

The jury hearing the Rotherham abuse trial has heard that a diary detailing the crimes, which was given to South Yorkshire Police by one of the complainants, was reportedly lost. The sister of an alleged victim, known in court as Girl

The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial has heard that having confronted him about his relationship with his daughter, the father of a 14-year-old girl ended up in a fight with the central defendant. Sheffield Crown Court heard how the

The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial has been told a police officer warned a victim of an alleged serial child abuser that fellow officers who witnessed what had happened would not give evidence for fear of landing themselves “in the

Police in a Phoenix suburb are investigating a child-abuse case in which a 3-year-old malnourished girl was bound with duct tape, kept in a trash sack inside closet and offered for sex by a man babysitting the child, officials said Tuesday.

LONDON (AP) — Victims of childhood sexual abuse said Friday they were disappointed that prosecutors had dropped a sex-crimes prosecution against politician Greville Janner, who died before court proceedings could begin. Lord Janner, a former Labour Party lawmaker and peer,

The desperate situation in which alleged victims of a Rotherham grooming gang found themselves continues to shock as the abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court progresses. Although some early effort was made by victims to bring matters to light, it

A teenage skateboarder and YouTube star, who goes by the screen name “Baby Scumbag” has been arrested on charges he used his social media fame to sexually exploit a 12-year-old girl.

The Rotherham abuse trial currently being heard at Sheffield Crown Court continues with more terrible allegations coming to light regarding the sexual abuse of young girls at the hands of Muslim grooming gangs. The latest day of evidence at the

Labour peer Lord Janner has been given a team of publicly funded lawyers following a judge’s ruling on Monday that he is unfit to stand trial on child sex abuse charges. Earlier this week 87-year-old Lord Janner was ruled too ill to face trial

The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal continues to develop as the National Crime Agency (NCA), the ‘British FBI’, prioritises an investigation into two ‘current or former’ Rotherham councillors.  Under the leadership of senior investigating officer Steve Baldwin, 60 or so officers

A retired Detective Inspector from the Metropolitan Police Force has spoken of child sex abuse evidence linked to the notorious address at the heart of the Westminster paedophile ring investigations. Dolphin Square in Pimlico has become the centre of the Met’s Operation Midland

An ex-aide of former Tory Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath, shot himself in the head following his arrest for potential child abuse offences. Two days after being questioned by police investigating images on his computer, 40-year-old Nick Edgar killed himself

Lord Janner has so far failed to attend court to face the 22 child abuse charges against him. Having been ordered to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning the former Labour MP now risks being arrested. Legal arguments from Lord Janner’s defence team have been

Lord Janner (pictured on the left) may face a warrant for his arrest if he fails to attend court to face 22 child abuse charges this Friday. The former Labour MP has been ordered to show up, but his defence team

Sums totalling over £120,000 were paid as bonuses to senior officers in the South Yorkshire Police Force at the same time as the child grooming scandal was unfolding. One officer alone received over £50,000 in two years as the abuse of hundreds of

Walmart has joined several other major supermarket chains with its own commitment to enforce its policy of placing Cosmopolitan magazine behind blinders in their stores across the nation.

The Metropolitan Police Force has announced it is investigating the late Tory MP and former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath as part of an ongoing inquiry into claims of abuse by establishment figures. That means that Ted Heath is now being

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it will investigate whether police failed to pursue an allegation of child sexual abuse against the late Prime Minister Edward Heath in the 1990s. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Monday it had

A father and seven other men, including a church pastor, have been charged with 503 child sex offences involving a 13-year-old girl in Perth, Western Australia. Police allege the girl’s father facilitated and participated in the horrific abuse, including aggravated

Several major supermarket chains will place Cosmopolitan Magazine behind blinders in their stores as a result of a campaign launched in April to protect young children and adolescents from the blatant sexual material on the magazine’s cover.

A 34 year old woman has been found guilty of being at the centre of a paedophile ring which abused children for more than a decade in Norfolk and London. The court heard how she and three associates, also convicted,