All news on the topic: Child abuse

A middle school teacher in Queens, New York City, has been charged with allegedly raping a 14-year-old boy - the messages she sent him before and during the alleged abuse have now been revealed

Defrocked Father Alex Crow is now accused of not letting the girl leave Italy but previous reports suggest the girl contacted her family saying she is happy, and asked them to let her live in peace

Niya Jones was terrified when she noticed bruises on her daughter's arms after picking her up from Morning Starr Childcare Center at District Heights in Maryland

Drug-addled Angel Taylor and Chevy Lafountain of Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after their four-month-old baby girl was found dead of starvation

Hussein Alinzi, 59, beat his own daughter with a metal bar outside her school when she arrived early for a GCSE exam - but avoided jail despite the horrific act

The 74-year-old former teacher was convicted of repeated sexual assaults against a boy in the basement of a private school in Tomah, Wisconsin, during the 2016-17 school year, the Monroe County District Attorney revealed

Arturo Coronado, the father of Taylor Schabusiness testified in defence of his daughter. He himself is serving prison time for for sexually assaulting a child under the age of 16 in an unrelated case

Elizabeth Archibeque has been sentenced to life without parole after her six-year-old son was found unresponsive and malnourished having been kept in a tiny closet which reeked of urine

Police found children severely abused and locked in dog cages at the home of Travis Doss, 31, and Amanda Stamper, 33. Meanwhile, Doss had been branding himself as a wealthy, tormenter rapper on social media

After he didn't show up for church, a huge search effort was launched to find Brian Laugeson and his kids, three and four. They were eventually found unresponsive in a car parked in the Nevada desert

Little Ava Mae Collard was found to have multiple rib, collarbone and femur fractures as well as severe trauma to the side of her head, after she was found in cardiac arrest at her home in Stone, Staffordshire

The stepmum of six children found in an apartment, two of them in cages, has claimed she was abused too after she and her husband were arrested and charged with child abuse

More than 170 people contacted a helpline, set up this week by the UK’s human rights watchdog, and lawyers say the fast-food firm faces paying out tens of thousands

Esteban Sylvester, 12, was found dead inside the family home in Shelbyville, Tennessee, by his distraught dad. Investigators later established the boy had been strangled to death

A Florida mum is accused of trying to have her three-year-old son killed by a hitman hired from a fake website, but the website owner reported her to the police

Mum Katie Koch posted happy family pictures on Instagram of her two children despite the boys smashing their way out of a window to escape their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Jeremy Guthrie was pulled over in a traffic stop on July 5, 2022 for suspected DUI and now faces charges including 10 counts of criminal sexual penetration of a minor

The missing teenager's aunt, Casaundra Perez, claims the girl had been sold to a US Marine for sex but she was eventually found at the San Diego Marine base on June 28

Sick and twisted gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar was stabbed in his Florida jail over the weekend - it is not the first time he has been attacked after a heartbroken dad lunged at him in 2018

The new online reporting site, supported by non-profit legal firm Good Law Project, currently has 60 allegations posted where victims share their stories anonymously

Amber Waterman, from Missouri, US, had previously been indicted in November for the alleged kidnapping and killing of 33-year-old Ashley Bush after her remains were discovered

Sheila and Clay Fletcher have been re-indicted on murder charges after their daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher's body was discovered "melted" into a couch in their home in Louisiana

Jay Perren, 34, who told one of his victims he had a 'monster inside his head' has been jailed for three decades after he was found guilty of dozens of sick sex crimes

Kristel Candelario, from Ohio, is facing murder charges after leaving her 16-month-old daughter home alone while she went on holiday for 10 days with the tot later dying

John Griffin worked as a television producer at CNN for eight years before being terminated after his sickening crimes came to light including derogatory language about women