All news on the topic: Children

A mother in New Zealand has been convicted of murdering her two children and leaving their bodies in suitcases for five years, in a case that shocked the country.

Europol announced Monday that a two-week operation at its headquarters helped identify 51 children who had been sexually abused.

When a plane crashed in the Amazon jungle carrying four young children, there was little hope of finding them alive.

Fresh concerns have emerged regarding the conditions within a Texas detention facility housing immigrant families, according to new revelations from a legal challenge.

Tories have claimed there is a “real risk” Scotland could fall behind England in dealing with child sexual abuse after MSPs voted down a bid to force research into grooming gangs.

A two-year-old girl passed away after police were called to a home for a "welfare check," and a man and woman have been arrested.

The first group of seriously ill and injured children from Gaza are on their way to the UK to receive NHS treatment.

A Turlock woman is facing charges of murder and other crimes after police officers discovered her 2-year-old daughter unresponsive in a home swimming pool on Friday afternoon.

Human rights activists, lawyers, LGBT people, children, and women have all faced repression in Egypt’s decades-long human rights crisis. In the latest escalation, authorities have since July 2025 been targeting social media influencers, including TikTokkers, vloggers, belly dancers, and tattoo artists, citing “family values” and “public morals.”

Former Premier League referee David Coote has been charged with making an indecent image of a child.

Young children are being arrested at a rate of nearly one a week for terrorism offences and plotting attacks on British soil, an LBC investigation has discovered.

Police in New Zealand have released the first photographs of one of the makeshift campsites where fugitive Tom Phillips and his children were hiding for years before he was shot dead in Waitomo on Monday.

A woman accused of murdering her two children and hiding their remains in suitcases is being tried in New Zealand, in a high-profile case that has shocked the country.

Curveball alert. An angry Phillies fan sparked outrage after she was captured bullying a father into handing over a home run ball that he had given to his young son, who was celebrating his birthday.

Only one in four detainees from Gaza are identified as fighters by Israel’s military intelligence, classified data indicates, with civilians making up the vast majority of Palestinians held without charge or trial in abusive prisons.

Britain on Wednesday imposed sanctions on 11 new individuals and entities affiliated with the Russian state, targeting those involved in what it said were Moscow’s attempts to forcibly deport and indoctrinate Ukraine’s children.

A man has appeared in court in connection with an alleged sexual assault of an eight-year-old boy in his tent at Loch Ness Bay Campsite.

An MSP met a girl guides group at Holyrood days after he was charged with possessing indecent images of children.

The Trump administration is taking steps to return hundreds of Guatemalan children currently in government custody who arrived in the United States unaccompanied, according to multiple sources familiar with the planning, who describe the effort as unprecedented in scope.

A volunteer Metropolitan Police officer has been found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a child.