7 h. ago Deputy headteacher, 51, who had sex with schoolgirl is married to former student and has children with her, court hears

John Harvey, 51, who was an English teacher and safeguarding lead at Penryn College in Cornwall, allegedly had sex with the teenager in his car and at her home while her father was away.

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15 h. ago Couple accused of grandson's murder punched their own children, court hears

Kerry and Michael Ives are accused of killing toddler Ethan Ives-Griffiths, who collapsed at their home in Flintshire, had had suffered "catastrophic head injuries" and was severely underweight when he died

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16 h. ago Couple accused of grandson’s murder punched their children, court hears

Toddler Ethan Ives-Griffiths died in hospital two days after emergency services were called to his home in Wales.

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19 h. ago The US supreme court just undermined gender equality | Moira Donegan

The Skrmetti decision upholding Tennessee’s ban on transition-related healthcare for minors deprives children and batters the 14th amendmentBy now, it is a ritual: every June, Americans endure several weeks of agonizing suspense, as we wait to hear how the supreme court will erode our freedoms, attack our dignity, undermine self-government and empower those who enrich themselves at our expense. The court, controlled by career politicians in robes who were hand-selected for their loyalty to the rightwing and their willingness to be wildly intellectually dishonest in pursuit of Republican policy objectives, has ended the right to abortion, desiccated the Voting Rights Act, made state gun regulations nearly impossible and declared the president functionally immune to criminal law. Many of us waited, with a mixture and terror and disgust, to see what cruelties the court would deliver for us in 2025.The justices decided to start by attacking vulnerable children. In a 6-3 split, the court...

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38 h. ago Justice Sotomayor dissents US supreme court decision that ‘authorizes untold harm to transgender children’ – live

Justice Sonia Sotomayor says decision ‘does irrevocable damage to the Equal Protection Clause’ and ‘invites legislatures to engage in discrimination’US supreme court upholds ban on youth gender-affirming careRussian deputy foreign minister Sergei Ryabkov warned on Wednesday that direct US military assistance to Israel could radically destabilise the situation in the Middle East, where an air war between Israel and Iran has raged for six days.In separate comments, the head of Russia’s SVR foreign intelligence service, Sergei Naryshkin, was quoted as saying that the situation between Israel and Iran was now critical. Continue reading...

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54 h. ago Married deputy headteacher, 51, befriended schoolgirl and had sex with her before being caught because she told a pal, court hears

John Harvey, 51, who was an assistant head teacher at Penryn College, is said to have formed a relationship with the girl while she was still a student.

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7 d. ago South Carolina state Rep RJ May accused of distributing child sexual abuse material

South Carolina State Congressman RJ May allegedly showed a “sexual interest in children the same age as his own children,” according to court documents

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8 d. ago Married deputy headteacher had sex with 'love of his life' girl in cupboard at UK school

A deputy headteacher at one of the UK's top schools claimed one of his students was the 'love of his life' after he engaged in sexual relations with her in a cupboard

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9 d. ago Messiest school mum brawls from 'biting finger off' to TV star playground ban

Parents up and down the country have lost their cool as they pick up their children from school, with some ending up in court and others left battered and bruised

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9 d. ago Constance Marten’s partner tells court ‘no laws on how to raise your children’

Marten and Mark Gordon have denied the gross negligence manslaughter of their daughter Victoria and causing or allowing her death in 2023.

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2 w. ago After weeks of silence, Erin Patterson begins to tell her side of the story to deadly mushroom lunch trial

Accused triple murderer gives emotional testimony as she faces questions on beef wellington lunch that killed threeErin Patterson accepts beef wellington served at fatal lunch contained death cap mushrooms, triple murder trial hearsErin Patterson had been in the witness box for 142 minutes, a window to her right showing the rain falling outside in regional Victoria, when her barrister Colin Mandy SC said: “I’m going to ask you some questions now about mushrooms”.Patterson had already spoken to the court about her children and her family, her hefty inheritances, her relationship with her estranged husband, Simon, and their slow and gradual decoupling, in her evidence on Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Nazi hunter who left fortune to his third wife after cutting his children and grandchildren out of his will was not victim of 'undue influence', court rules

Self-styled 'Lord' Peter Eden changed his will the year before his death aged 99 so that all his shares in his property company were left to 'Lady' Joy Eden, 85.

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3 w. ago French surgeon who abused children for decades sentenced to 20 years in prison

Biggest child abuse trial in French history reveals decades of failures in medical oversightA former French surgeon has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the sexual abuse of hundreds of patients, mostly aged under 15, following the biggest child abuse trial in French history.Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, worked as a digestive surgeon in public and private hospitals across Brittany and the west of France, often operating on children with appendicitis. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago French court to sentence former surgeon who abused children for decades

Biggest child abuse trial in French history reveals decades of medical oversight failuresA former French surgeon is expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison on Wednesday for the sexual abuse of hundreds of patients mostly aged under 15, as the biggest child abuse trial in French history ends.Joël Le Scouarnec, 74, worked as a digestive surgeon in public and private hospitals across Brittany and the west of France, often operating on children with appendicitis. Continue reading...

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