Child abuse news headlines

The 78-year-old is scheduled to front court in Sydney today.

Police alleged a 15-year-old boy and girl were approached by the 55-year-old they didn't know at a fast food resturant.

Sara's dad, his partner and his brother all left the UK for Pakistan one day before her fatally beaten body was discovered in her London home.

A former English teacher allegedly sought out female students at three Sydney schools where he worked over more than two decades.

Two FBI agents' murders set off a cross-continental investigation that's led to 19 Australians arrested and 13 Aussie kids rescued.

A former Queensland Police officer has been charged with over 70 historical sexual assault offences dating back almost 30 years.

None of the children, aged between 4-16, had been educated, and some of them didn't even know their own birth date.

An English couple who fought to get their baby son back from child services and then abused him so severely the 10-month-old was dead just over a month later were sentenced to life in prison.

A Queensland mother of nine accused of repeatedly hitting an already traumatised five-year-old girl with a wooden spoon has been committed to stand trial.

The head of English at a prestigious Sydney private school has been jailed after police found hundreds of images and videos of child sexual abuse on his phone.

The islands where notorious paedophile Jeffrey Epstein exploited and abused young women and girls will be turned into a resort after being sold at a dramatically reduced price.

The child vomited on a tray provided by the second teacher, and the aide charged with neglect then gave the child a spoon, police said.

Amateur photographer Genesis Cerezo pleaded guilty to possessing and producing child abuse material.

A scheme which saw thousand of children sent to countries including Australia from Scotland has been dubbed "a shameful chapter" in Scotland's history with officials admitting the system was "abusive".

Convicted child abuser Gary Glitter has been recalled to prison in England after breaching parole conditions, following reports suggesting the former pop star was using the dark web.

A mother and aunt were allegedly producing and selling made-to-order, live sex abuse material for international paedophiles from Colombia.

Former NSW minister Milton Orkopoulos has pleaded not guilty to drug supply and child sexual abuse offences.

Parents and carers have been warned about sharing back-to-school photos.

Jury told boy, 6, died from blunt force trauma to his head and had other painful wounds all over his body.

A 38-year old man from regional NSW has been charged with multiple child abuse offences following a police investigation.

The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents allege.

A police operation has been launched to urgently check on the welfare of 500 high risk South Australian children.

A startling report has revealed the disturbing methods online pedophiles are using against Aussie parents to try and get child abuse material involving their own children.

The state government will this week introduce tougher new laws to combat child sex offenders.

Cricket Australia has apologised to survivors of sexual child abuse involved in cricket, and called on states and territories to join the national redress scheme.

Police say internet grooming is contributing to higher rates of child abuse, with 45 alleged offenders charged during one of Australia's biggest crackdowns.

The 40-year-old pleaded guilty to sharing child abuse material and will be sentenced in September.

South Australian police are investigating a second case of suspected serious criminal neglect following the death of a seven-year-old boy in February.

Six of the 13 Turpin children were placed in a foster home where they endured a "second bout" of abuse, including sexual, physical and emotional abuse.

Victoria McIntosh unfurls a little girl's white winter coat from her handbag and smooths it out on the table.

A day after top law officials in the US state of Ohio cast doubt on reports of a 10-year-old falling pregnant and needing an abortion, the man accused of raping her has been charged.

A stepfather in Florida has been convicted of child abuse after a restaurant employee last year noticed concerning signs and used a surreptitious note to ask a boy if he needed help.

Prosecutors asked US District Judge Timothy Brooks to give the maximum term of 20 years to Duggar, whose large family was the focus of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting.

Melissa Lucio was set to be executed by lethal injection on Wednesday for the death of her two-year-old daughter Mariah.

A Perth man is facing more than 400 charges after allegedly sexually abusing 24 young children over six years.

NSW Police is urging parents to be aware of online predators after charging five men with online grooming offences in just eight days.

Three Queensland men have been charged with several offences including rape, producing child exploitation material and grooming, with one more man on the run.

More than 100 Australians have been charged with more than 1000 child abuse-related offences as part of a joint global operation.

The 27-year-old is fundraising for the "Stop Gaslighting Survivors" campaign to remove the word "relationship" from crimes relating to child sex abuse.

Pope Benedict XVI has pushed back against accusations that he knew in 1980 that a priest under his control was an abuser, while denying he had intentionally concealed his presence at a meeting about the priest that year.

Two people, including a medical doctor, have been charged with the attempted murder of a six-year-old girl in Western Australia.

Jurors in Ghislaine Maxwell's federal sex trafficking trial resumed deliberations in New York on Tuesday even as the judge overseeing the case expressed her concern that Covid-19 could upend deliberations.

Shortly before sending the jurors home for the holiday, Judge Alison Nathan asking if they'd consider deliberating on Thursday. Minutes later, the jury responded with a note of its own: "No, thank you."

The jury deliberating at Ghislaine Maxwell's trial asked on Tuesday to review testimony of three of four women who said the British socialite aided financier Jeffrey Epstein in the sexual abuse they experienced when they were teenagers.

Predators lurking in wildly popular online games are using new tactics to entice naked images from unsuspecting Aussie kids

Former US reality TV star Josh Duggar has been immediately taken into custody after a federal jury convicted him of downloading and possessing child pornography.

A Hawaii couple charged with the murder of their adopted daughter pleaded not guilty, as court documents allege abusive treatment, including her being kept in a dog cage.

Children who grew up in the Turpin family's infamous "house of horrors" will be speaking about their years in "hell" for the first time.

A Perth babysitter has been hit with extra child abuse charges as he waits his next court date.

Thousands have gathered across Australia for 'Day for Daniel,' the country's biggest child safety awareness event named for Daniel Morcombe.