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Online child exploitation is escalating worldwide, with experts warning of a sharp increase in AI-generated sexual abuse material — including deepfakes that digitally insert children’s faces into explicit photos and videos.

A grooming gang leader who thought he was ‘almost untouchable’ while raping two white schoolgirls in Rochdale has been jailed for 35 years.

A 22-year-old nursery worker has been sentenced to eight years in jail after being convicted of the “sadistic” abuse of 21 babies, including pinching and pushing children and kicking one little boy in the face.

An “abhorrent” Snapchat predator has been jailed for 14 years for raping a 12-year-old girl and exploiting dozens of others in one of the UK’s biggest online child sexual abuse investigations.

Sir Keir Starmer will launch a statutory inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after resisting calls for months to implement a full national probe.

Hundreds of historic child sex abuse cases could be re-opened after police forces carried out reviews ordered by the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to tackle grooming gangs.

The 42-year-old, who is originally from Finland, used a legitimate artificial intelligence app to make indecent images of young girls being abused.

A paedophile who accidentally sent a child abuse image to a fishing club he wanted to join has narrowly avoided prison.

The allegations span between 1993 to 1996 involving a girl, and 2006 to 2010 involving a boy, both in the Glasgow region.

Brenda Deutsch, allegedly a collector of exotic animals, is said to have traded an adopted daughter to someone in Texas, US, for a monkey and mistreated other children in her care.

A woman who sexually assaulted and abused children with a partner she met online has been discovered dead in her prison cell.

Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, was previously imprisoned for the rape and sexual assault of four victims, but he faces another trial next week after the police discovered diaries detailing hundreds of abuses.

As Elon Musk tries to expand his influence in the European political arena, Tesla sales throughout the continent have significantly decreased.

A former surgeon who is accused of abusing hundreds of young patients, often while they were under anaesthetic, is set to go on trial this month in the largest child abuse trial in French history.

As Britain becomes the first country to announce tough laws to crush the vile trade in AI generated child sex abuse material - safeguarding minister Jess Phillips tells the Mirror she was "shocked" so little was done for years.

Mastercard and Visa failed to stop their payment networks from laundering proceeds from child sexual abuse material and sex trafficking on the popular website OnlyFans...

Jennifer Lee Wilson, 49, was sentenced to six years in prison for the death of her 10-year-old foster son, Dakota Stevens, who she killed by sitting on him after he threatened to call 911 over child abuse.

An abuse survivor has told LBC that a compensation payment from Lambeth Palace felt like “hush money”, after he accused a senior aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury of sexual assault.