All news on the topic: Child abuse

The eldest daughter of a garda charged with rape and child cruelty has said the family home had ‘an atmosphere of violence and threats” and it felt like living in a military barracks growing up.

A man belonging to a flag activist group is due to appear in court after being accused of making indecent images of children.

A man has been charged with murder following the discovery of the body of a two-year-old girl at an address in Chertsey.

A seven-year-old boy died weighing 18 stone with his parents arrested for murder, child abuse and torture.

A British Airways pilot has been jailed after raping a 12-year-old girl he met on social media.

The 79-year-old man, who can’t be named for legal reasons, went on trial charged with 74 counts of sexually abusing four girls.

A teacher who murdered his adopted baby son bought a £450,000 new-build home with his boyfriend to reinvent themselves just 22 days after the tot’s death.

The mum of a tragic baby sexually abused and murdered by his adopted dad is a killer schoolgirl who tortured an OAP to death.

Nearly 300 Sri Lankan monks have been accused of abusing children in the last three years, leading to charges against nearly 30 of them, the country’s child protection agency has disclosed.

German prosecutors have charged a pediatrician with 130 counts of sexual abuse, including the rape of children, most of them in his care, in a case that has caused shock and prompted clinics to increase safeguards.

The UK media regulator has launched an investigation into Telegram over concerns it may be failing to prevent child sexual abuse material (CSAM) from being shared.

A nine-year-old boy has been rescued after being locked inside his dad’s van for nearly 18 months.

The European parliament has blocked the extension of a law that permits big tech firms to scan for child sexual exploitation on their platforms, creating a legal gap that child safety experts say will lead to crimes going undetected.

An "obsessive and predatory" man who groomed and collected indecent images of a teenage girl he met through the online gaming platform Roblox.

Altagrace, a mother living in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, remembers the moment that her life changed forever.

The ruined former home of Jimmy Savile has finally been demolished after it was revealed that the dilapidated cottage in Glencoe, Scotland, had been left to deteriorate.

Joseph Duggar allegedly confessed to molesting a 9-year-old girl during a monitored phone call with the child’s father and a police detective, according to a newly surfaced affidavit, RadarOnline.com can reveal.

A former swimming coach who admitted secretly filming young girls and producing child abuse images has been released from prison after serving just over two years of a three year sentence, days after being hospitalised for punching a wall in his cell.

Child sexual abuse in the UK is increasing rapidly, police have reported, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.

Kardashian was moved from the women’s prison in Limerick and placed in isolation in an area of the male prison following the self-confessed threats to McGhee as well as a female prison officer

Murdered 10-year-old Sara Sharif was "failed by the safeguarding system" in multiple ways throughout her short life, according to a review which said her father’s domestic abuse had been overlooked and underestimated.

An Afghan TikToker who threatened to murder Nigel Farage was on the run from police in Sweden over a litany of crimes when he arrived in the UK on a small boat, the Daily Mail can reveal.

The investigation reveals that Thompson, who taught at the Old Malthouse School in Dorset in the early 1970s, faces allegations from multiple former pupils of serious sexual abuse.