All news on the topic: Child abuse

Dozens of camps have sprung up around America in a multi-billion dollar industry where parents are promised a solution for their troubled children, but the reality is a harsh environment that often does more harm than good

Experts believe up to 100 children per day are falling victim to these sextortion scams and some youngsters, including Dinal De Alwis, have killed themselves after being targeted

Marc Sherland, president of the World Burns Federation, was forced to resign after being unmasked as convicted paedophile Douglas Stuart Hammond who had sexually assaulted two boys

Sex worker Amanda Stamper was sentenced to up to 18 years in jail after she and her failed rapper husband Travis Doss locked their children in dog cages at their apartment in Las Vegas, Nevada, in what a nurse described "worst case of abuse" she had ever seen

The world was shocked when they discovered the horrific crimes committed by Ruby Franke who starved and abused her children in a "concentration camp" and jailed for decades

An Ohio woman pled guilty to murder after leaving her 16-month-old daughter alone for 10 days while she went on vacation to Detroit and Puerto Rico, as investigators found the toddler starved, dehydrated, and covered in faeces

As shamed YouTuber Ruby Franke issued a shallow apology to her kids for physically and emotionally abusing them, one takes to TikTok to make light of her arrest

The disgraced mum-of-fix Ruby Franke shared a tearful apology to her children before a judge delivered a sentence that could put her in prison for decades

Parenting vlogger and influencer Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt have been sentenced in Utah on four counts of aggravated child abuse each after Franke's emaciated son escaped Hildebrandt's home

Ruby Franke, a mum-of-six who ran the popular YouTube channel "8 Passengers", is due to be sentenced today after her son was found with "open wounds" after living in horrific conditions

Disgraced Mormon mum YouTuber Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt will be sentenced in Utah today after each pleading guilty to four counts of felony child abuse

The husband of YouTuber Ruby Franke has demanded she and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt, 54, be put in jail for decades after they pleaded guilty to four counts each of child abuse

Terica Scott, 26, and Dineshia Yates, 26, were each charged with one count of principal to simple battery and principal to second-degree murder in the death of Blessings Buckles

The 79-year-old former pop star and serial sex offender has told fellow inmates that he now believes he will not see freedom before his sentence ends in 2031

Police say the mother accidentally ran over the boy after making him walk home from school after getting in trouble

Yolanda Denise Coale had viciously beat both young King Lyons and his sister on multiple occasions, prosecutors told the court at a sentencing hearing on Thursday

A 36-year-old Texas mother has been accused of torturing her children and abusing her husband and has been arrested this week

A Florida woman, Talia Nelson, faces severe charges after her 14-year-old son Zayke Smith-Nelson died weighing only 2 stone 3 (33 pounds), revealing a disturbing case of alleged neglect and starvation

The controversial camp in North Carolina that claims to help 'struggling' teens allegedly ignored the youngster's requests to be separated from her older female assailant

Kyle Paul, from Croydon, was found with hundreds of indecent child photos and 'sexually explicit' conversations on his phone and has been described as a 'dangerous predator'

The girl was seven when the abuse began and lost the chance to enjoy a 'normal childhood' due to her parents' callous actions that left her 'psychologically damaged'

Authorities allege that caretaker Alysia Adams, 31, who they say is responsible for the death of four-year-old Athena Adams, had a sexual relationship with her jailer

A mum in Indiana was charged with felony negligence after police discovered she abandoned her son, 3, in a cold house without heat for so long he needed his foot amputated

Police say that a man is in custody after attending an address in Brixham, Devon, to find a nine-year-old boy in a serious condition before he was rushed to hospital and died some hours later

Christine Knudsen has escaped jail time after pleading guilty to having sexual relations with her 17-year-old student. It was described as a “disturbing” case by the assistant prosecutor