All news on the topic: Child abuse

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

Runaways from a Missouri Christian boarding school reportedly begged neighbours to call the police, citing kidnapping and abuse, which the owners were later charged with — highlighting boarding school regulation issues in the state

The recent death of a 12-year-old at a Trails Carolina 'therapy camp' in South Carolina brings again to light a series of tragic fatalities among teenagers in such facilities due to their cruel practices

Cult mum Lori Vallow Daybell was sentenced to life in prison after for murdering two of her children - a case made famous by a Netflix show, 'Sins of Our Mother'

Louisiana dad Gary Plauché killed Jeff Doucet — the Karate instructor who groomed, raped and kidnapped his son — on live TV, but his son Jody tells The Mirror US the act wasn't seen as one of evil, it was, and still is, seen as 'an act of love, not an act of hate'

Shanda Vander Ark, 44, and her son Paul Ferguson, 21, from Michigan, US, tortured Timothy, 15, with a nine hour ice bath before his death - they both retched during their trials

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