All news on the topic: Child abuse

Abusive woman Jody Simpson, 29, abused baby Tony Hudgell with her partner so badly he needed his legs amputating. She has now been released less than five years into a 10-year sentence

The man arrested after six British children were rescued from a cellar in Austria, is 54-year-old Tom Landon, reports say - he was arrested after allegedly attacking two social workers with pepper spray

Social workers 'overlooked' the man's criminal convictions for child sex offences after he was previously classed 'low risk', and went on to abuse the girl for a number of years

Anthony Lonsdale, 21, set up fake profiles on Snapchat, Instagram and WhatsApp and contacted a girl, sending her increasingly intimate messages and sexually explicit photos

Logan Mwangi tragically died after suffering horrific abuse at the hands of his mum Angharad Williamson, step-dad, John Cole, and 14-year-old step-brother Craig Mulligan

Kaylea Titford, 16, spent the last years of her young life in conditions 'not fit for animals' after allegedly being neglected by her parents, a court heard

Jack Addis, 63, and Jeremy Laxton, 62, will appear in court accused of child sex abuse image offences - while serving Chief Inspector Richard Watkinson was found dead last week

Kirsty Easthope’s late mum Irma Barnett left her a £300,000 bungalow but also stated her live-in partner Arthur Hepple - who sexually abused Kirsty for 10 years - could remain in the property for the rest of his life

Andrew Hadwin and Cheryl Pickles subjected children to sustained campaigns of physical and emotional abuse making them eat soap, take boiling showers and go without food

Campaigners demand that boys get the same legal protection that is given to girls

The cases are being urgently reviewed after it emerged serial rapist David Carrick was allowed to remain in the force despite being accused of rape, assault, harassment, domestic abuse and burglary

Suspected child sex offender Daniel Godkin, 32, was pictured leaving court handcuffed to guards after eventually being detained following an alleged search of the River Ribble last week

Broadcaster Nicky Campbell has previously opened up about the predatory former teacher, known as 'Edgar' in the UK for legal reasons, who has previously admitted to abusing boys at schools in Edinburgh during the 1960s and 70s

Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell - who was convicted and then acquitted of child sex abuse - died aged 81 in Rome from heart complications after hip surgery in Australia

Scott Coombe, 24, abused 18-month-old Andrew Cawker for months while the boy's mum Tamika Beaton, 25, turned a blind eye to the injuries he was causing to her son

Gary Glitter - who could walk free in weeks - is on a vulnerable person wing at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and is worried that a 'psycho' will attack him if he leaves