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Trish Hinde was just six years old when her father began abusing her and the following year she began suffering from violent seizures.

Lucy Haughey won the hit TV cooking show the same year she was convicted of sleeping with a 15-year-old schoolboy and was sentenced this week for a relentless social media campaign targeting her latest victim. This week she was in the dock at Glasgow Sheriff Court facing sentence for stalking Joanne Bell.

An estimated 17,000 children are affected by having a mum in prison every year and many will be separated on Mother’s Day this Sunday as experts call for more support

Rebecca Gibson, 36, first started bleeding in 2018 but after an examination was told she just had a polyp. Five years later it was found that she had a 10cm tumour and stage four cancer

As the Chancellor considers imposing cuts to pay for tax giveaways in the Budget, a TUC poll of public sector workers found almost 40% are considering leaving their professions

Natalia and Steve went through many rounds of IVF before opting for adoption. They could not be happier now and share all the ups and downs of family life together

Ruby Franke went from being a popular YouTuber to becoming one of the most reviled mum's in the US after the extent of her abuse came to light from cruel punishments for her children to forced labour

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Nathan Lee Davies gave up social activities for years - instead saving up the money to spend on a dream trip. But when he told his support worker the council demanded the money back

Victoria Hill, 39, from Connecticut, was horrified to discover she had unknowingly slept with her half-brother, after her mum's fertility doctor used his own sperm to impregnate his patients

The warrant states that the boy had been made to sleep on the floor of a bunkhouse as 'per protocol of Trails Carolina,' where he was found dead, knees sticking up into the air without trousers or underwear on by staff the next morning

The "bizarre team" of Antoinette Sheppard, 44, and Kieron Spicer, 16, battered 'kind and gentle' Michael Brady to death before hiding his remains in a TV box in a garden shed in Coventry

Seasonal Affective Disorder was first diagnosed in the 1980s, with doctors and psychologists scrambling to better understand what happens during the winter to trigger a depression-like state

Amy Kavanagh, 31, suffers from Rett Syndrome and was left without a bed at Glasgow’s Haydale Care Home after flooding caused water damage to her floor and ceiling

More than 60 calls were made to professionals by people who were concerned about Alfie's welfare in the years leading up to his death, it has been revealed.

Melanie Battersby, 60, from Sheffield, said her father done the best for her brother Bronson 'until his last breath' - she has welcomed an inquiry to see whether any failings from social services took place

Two-year-old Bronson Battersby was found curled up dead besides the body of his father, Kenneth, 60, in his home in Skegness, Lincolnshire two weeks after they were last seen

Fiona McGowan was 47 when she died alone in a homeless hostel - having lost her job, children and health due to the Post Office Horizon Scandal, her family have said

Two-year-old Bronson Battersby was tragically discovered dead alongside his father, Kenneth, 60, at a house in Skegness, Lincolnshire, leaving family and neighbours heartbroken

Toddler Bronson Battersby and his dad Kenneth's bodies were found by the child's social worker and their rented home's landlady after they had not been seen alive for two weeks

Bronson Battersby, two, was found dead next to the body of his dad Kenneth, 60, at their rented property in Skegness, Lincolnshire, two weeks after they were last seen

Bronson Battersby, a 'loving and gorgeous' two-year-old toddler, was tragically found dead curled up at the feet of his dad Kenneth - who died of a heart attack at their home

Two-year-old Bronson Battersby's body was found next to his dad Kenneth - who is suspected to have died of a heart attack before the toddler succumbed to starvation

Toddler Bronson Battersby, of Skegness, Lincolnshire, was tragically found curled up dead next to his dad Kenneth - who died of a heart attack - two weeks after they were last seen

A damning 173-page review sets out multiple failed investigations by Greater Manchester Police and apparent local authority indifference to the plight of hundreds of youngsters