All news on the topic: Child abuse

As Britain becomes the first country to announce tough laws to crush the vile trade in AI generated child sex abuse material - safeguarding minister Jess Phillips tells the Mirror she was "shocked" so little was done for years.

Mastercard and Visa failed to stop their payment networks from laundering proceeds from child sexual abuse material and sex trafficking on the popular website OnlyFans...

Jennifer Lee Wilson, 49, was sentenced to six years in prison for the death of her 10-year-old foster son, Dakota Stevens, who she killed by sitting on him after he threatened to call 911 over child abuse.

An abuse survivor has told LBC that a compensation payment from Lambeth Palace felt like “hush money”, after he accused a senior aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury of sexual assault.

Report says it is ‘unlikely’ Justin Welby knew nothing of concerns about Smyth, who abused schoolboys at Christian holiday camps

Jason Seto NYC, a child abuser, was imprisoned for trying to arrange sex with a juvenile who was 14 years old.

Internet Watch Foundation says illegal AI-made content is becoming more prevalent on open web with high level of sophistication

A scheme to compensate members of a defunct religious cult known as the Jesus Army has identified 539 alleged perpetrators of abuse, and revealed about one in six children had been sexually abused.

Apollo Quiboloy, who is wanted by the FBI on charges of child sexual abuse and trafficking, has surrendered following a police ultimatum, according to officials.

The NSPCC finds the surge in reports of child physical punishment alarming and calls for law reforms in England and Northern Ireland in line with rest of UK.

The Church of England made a six-figure pay-off to a priest assessed as a potential risk to children and young people, a BBC investigation has found.

Ben Hewitt subjected his girlfriend to a horror attack which last a full 10 minutes as he repeatedly spat on her while punching, slapping, kicking and stamping on her - forcing her to have a liquid diet for two weeks

A religious leader who claimed he was a ‘living god’ has been accused of exploiting and sexually abusing his followers who say he is really ‘the devil in disguise’.

Children who stayed at Gordonstoun school overnight were “exposed to risks of sexual, physical, and emotional abuse”, according to findings from the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry

Leading football figure has been accused of raping two teen girls

An 80-year-old man who has been on the run for almost three decades has been arrested after returning to the UK from Thailand, police have said.

Andrew Magee, from Widnes in Cheshire, was trusted to join a family on a camping holiday, but when the parents fell asleep he lead their 15-year-old daughter to a tent where he raped her

Indiana State Police this week arrested Dejaune Anderson over the death of her five-year-old son whose body was found in a suitcase two years ago just before the mother disappeared

WARNING: DISTURBING CONTENT. Amelia's world came crashing down when police turned up at her door to arrest her husband for possessing explicit images of children

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Gabriel Marinoaica, 19, stands accused of grabbing the teen schoolgirl near Bournemouth Pier, dragging her out to sea, and proceeding to rape her while putting his hand over her mouth to stifle her screams

Four decades after the horrific rape and abuse he suffered at the hands of his karate teacher before his father killed the man on live TV, Jody Plauché is doing well — in fact, he's celebrating his life

Michael Meyden, 57, from Oregon, faces multiple charges after he was accused of drugging his daughter's friends with Benzodiazepines hidden in smoothies during a sleepover