4 h. ago First man jailed under child online safety act for grooming and abusing girl

Karl Davies, 42, a father-of-two from the Wirral, admitted and has been convicted of 17 offences relating to a school girl aged between 13 and 14.

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5 h. ago Dad becomes first in UK history to be jailed after encouraging child to self harm

Karl Davies, a 43-year-old quantity surveyor from the Wirral, targeted the girl, from Cheshire, through Snapchat. He is the first person to be convicted under the Online Safety Act

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35 h. ago Paedo Ian Watkins' last sick love note to secret fiancée before he was killed in jail

Watkins was serving a 29 year jail sentence for a string of sick child sex crimes, including the attempted rape of a baby, but still had hundreds of women writing him letters

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3 d. ago Twisted babysitter burned young boy with cigarettes and forced him to eat dog food

Siann Cawley, 27, from Fleetwood in Lancashire, has been jailed for more than four years after abusing another parent's child by burning him with cigarettes, forcing him to eat dog food and leaving him alone for hours at a time

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6 d. ago Depraved Lostprophets 'groupie' who let Ian Watkins abuse her baby makes fresh bid for freedom

The woman was jailed for 17 years in 2013 for handing her child to the paedophile Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins (pictured) to abuse and use to take indecent photos.

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7 d. ago 4Chan fined by Ofcom for ignoring requests for online safety information

The online forum has been fined £20,000 by the watchdog for breaching its information requests.

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7 d. ago UK MPs urged to investigate TikTok’s plans to cut 439 content moderator jobs

Trade unions and online safety experts sign letter warning jobs losses could expose children to harmful contentTrade unions and online safety experts have urged MPs to investigate TikTok’s plans to make hundreds of jobs for UK-based content moderators redundant.The video app company is planning 439 redundancies in its trust and safety team in London, leading to warnings that the jobs losses will have implications for online safety. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago TikTok job cuts should be probed by MPs as alarm raised over online safety

In the summer the viral video platform TikTok put hundreds of jobs at risk in the UK as it invests in the use of artificial intelligence for moderating content

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8 d. ago Police whistleblower reveals 'serious question' that STILL needs to be answered around Rochdale grooming gangs

Ex-detective Maggie Oliver quit Greater Manchester Police after the force failed to act on allegations of widespread child grooming and sex abuse.

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8 d. ago Ian Watkins killer 'given bonus points' by inmates for stabbing paedo to death

The Lostprophers singer was sentenced to 29 years in jail for child sex offences.

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8 d. ago Inmate who killed Ian Watkins 'given bonus points' by lags after stabbing paedo

WARNING, DISTURBING CONTENT: Ian Watkins, the former Lostprophets singer who was jailed for a series of child sex offences, was stabbed to death by another inmate in HMP Wakefield on Saturday

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9 d. ago Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins is murdered after 'fellow inmate slits his throat with knife' in prison where paedophile was serving 29 years for child sex offences

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has been murdered in jail where he was serving 29 years for child sex offences. 

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9 d. ago Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins is murdered in jail where he was serving 29 years for child sex offences

Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins has been murdered in jail where he was serving 29 years for child sex offences. 

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1 week ago Scottish regions with picturesque lochs and grand munros named in UK's best wild camping spots

A new study ranked the best wild camping spots using article features, online searches, rainfall, and safety tips.

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1 week ago Pervert is arrested after air crew spotted him looking at child porn on his laptop in business class cabin

A senior Japanese Football Association official has been sentenced to an 18-month suspended jail term in France after looking at images of child pornography during a plane journey.

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1 week ago ‘Avalanche’ of child abuse and sexual exploitation taking place behind closed doors: ‘It’s a hidden emergency’

Almost 20 per cent of children reported experiencing online solicitation or grooming before they turned 18

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1 week ago Paul Mosley dead at 58: Child killer who was jailed for the fiery deaths of six youngsters dies

Paul Mosley was sentenced to 14 years in prison for manslaughter after he helped act out his friend's twisted plot to set a home alight in Derby on May 11, 2012.

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1 week ago Illinois governor vows to resist Trump administration ‘power grab’ after suing over national guard deployment to Chicago – live

JB Pritzker says Illinois will use ‘every lever’ to stop Trump’s use of military in state; federal judge says administration has two days to file a response and sets a hearing for ThursdayIllinois sues Trump seeking to block deployment of national guardThe supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago White House calls court ruling blocking Portland national guard deployment ‘untethered from reality’ – live

Karoline Leavitt criticizes Trump-appointed judge’s decision; Trump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges Illinois sues Trump seeking to block deployment of national guardThe supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump deploying military to Chicago on ‘flimsy pretext’, Illinois lawsuit alleges – live

Complaint filed by Illinois says ‘these advances in President Trump’s long-declared ‘War’ on Chicago and Illinois are unlawful and dangerous’Illinois sues Trump seeking to block deployment of national guardThe supreme court has rejected Ghislaine Maxwell’s challenge of her criminal conviction for recruiting and grooming minors, who were sexually abused by her former boyfriend and companion Jeffrey Epstein – the disgraced financier who died in a New York prison in 2019.Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year-sentence for her crimes. She was recently moved to a minimum-security prison in Texas. Continue reading...

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