All news on the topic: Child abuse

A total of 3,591 children from 21 police forces have been identified as watching or sharing online child abuse images online between January and October this year

Pamela Gladys Gaensel was arrested on child abuse without great bodily harm charges after police discovered marks on her six-year-old son and video footage showed her throwing a seat at him

Stefanie Reichert, from Colorado, left her child Giovanni with McKinley Slone Hernandez, 25, at her house on September 1. However, just hours later, he was left with horrific injuries to his skull

Mum-of-three Nicodia Samuels is accused of child endangerment after leaving her three young kids alone at their home in Franklin County, Pennsylvania, on November 8

After hearing evidence that suggested a more sinister reason behind little Falaq Babar's death at her home in Rochdale, the coroner agreed to adjourn the hearing pending further investigations by Greater Manchester Police

April Evalyn Short, a 30-year-old Georgia mother of three, has been charged with murdering her infant son by slitting his throat, apparently believing that it would enable him to 'be with Jesus and God'

Leann Thomason was taken into custody in Taylor County, Texas after being charged with injury to a child in connection with the incident at Buffalo Gap Elementary School

Lisa Snyder is accused of killing four-year-old Brinley and eight-year-old Conner in September 2019 in the basement of their home in Albany Township, Pennsylvania

Reagan Anderson is a 27-year-old married mum of two who has been accused of preying on a 17-year-old high school teenager. The now former teacher will face up to five years in prison if she is found guilty.

The man was living in the country illegally and is accused of being part of a wider group of sexual predators who preyed upon children and forced them to make porn, say local police

Simon Parsons, 44, and Rebecca Dow, 39, carried out a disgusting campaign of sexual abuse against their victim when she was under the age of 13, a sentencing hearing at Cardiff Crown Court was told

A US middle school counsellor used Snapchat and a school messaging app to stay in contact with her alleged victim over school holidays. She then invited the 14-year-old boy into her home where her family caught her

Maya Chavez left the10-year-old with injuries which included a bone sticking out of an unhealed sore and bruises from head to toe. A nurse told Orange County District Attorney's office it was the worst case of trauma and suspected child abuse she had ever seen

Melissa Marie Curtis is accused by a former student of engaging in sexual acts with him while he was just 14. After handing herself in on Tuesday, she has been charged with multiple sexual offences

Five-year-old Prince McCree went missing from his Milwaukee home and was later found dead in a dumpster. Davie Pietura and Erik Mendoza, face charges in his death after authorities didn't issue an Amber Alert

A woman in Texas has been given a long sentence after she was found guilty of torturing a little girl, who later died, for wetting the bed. Jessica Bundren will spend life in jail

WARNING, DISTRESSING DETAILS: Timothoes Powell, 29, from Florida, was arrested last month after he informed the child's mum there was 'bleeding...as glass had entered his diaper'

Social worker Payton Shires, 24, from Ohio, allegedly admitted to sexually abusing the 13-year-old teen while he was in her care after sharing text messages together, according to police

Sascha Wensing, 40, and his wife Maja Wensing, 39, are in custody over the death of their three-year-old daughter. Seven youth welfare workers are also being investigated

The victim struck Richard Gross after he avoided jail time despite being convicted of 26 felony counts of the sexual abuse of a child - when the victim was aged eight to 15

A mum in New York has been charged with attempted murder after taking her 4-year-old daughter to emergency rooms and hospitals over 190 times and having her pumped full of 'toxic levels of seizure medication'

Little Charlie Cronmiller died on February 3, 2021 after being found face down unresponsive covered in his own vomit. His killer, Amanda Hickey, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison

Matthew Antonio Zakrzewski, 34, of Costa Mesa, California, has been convicted of 34 counts of molesting 16 boys aged between two and 12as well as showing pornography to a seventeenth

A teacher accused of having a baby with one of her students has turned herself in. Morgan Freche was arrested after an investigation by the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office.

Kevin Cook was nine when Jimmy Savile lured him into a dressing room and, with another man, abused him. He is among victims who shared their story in The Reckoning