6 h. ago Five retired Greater Manchester Police officers arrested for alleged sexual abuse of woman who was pimped out as a child

EXCLUSIVE: Two other suspects are deceased, Neal Keeling reports

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7 h. ago Loretto school child abuse victim wins landmark payout after exposing 'violence' at 'madhouse'

Former Loretto School pupil, Angus Bell, said teachers knew about it and either failed to intervene or took steps to cover it up.

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32 h. ago Maga media mob: meet the new rightwing faces in the White House briefing room

A banjo player and a Black Maga influencer, among others, now attend Trump administration press briefingsA disgraced ultra-conservative banjo player ousted from his Grammy-winning band; a far-right conspiracy theorist with alleged ties to Russia; a TikTok creator known as “Maga Malfoy” for his resemblance to the Harry Potter character; and an extremist social media “influencer” once banned from Twitter for posting a video depicting sexual abuse of a child.These are just some of the “new media” personalities courted by the White House to take part in a series of alternative briefings championed by Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt. Continue reading...

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38 h. ago A child on thin ice: EA Hanks on life with her abusive mother – and world

One half of the author’s early life was spent with a mother who struggled with addiction, her mental health and caring responsibilities. The other was with her father Tom on film sets and in a house full of love and structure. She discusses her road trip back into her complicated pastWhen EA Hanks was 14, her mother announced she had bought a Winnebago and they were going to drive across the US in it. It was 1996, and Hanks (her initials stand for Elizabeth Ann), had recently left her mother, Susan, to go to live with her father, the actor Tom Hanks, in Los Angeles. “Things between my mother and I were at an absolute low point,” she says. The drive, she remembers, from California – long hours on the road, her mother chain-smoking and listening to Christian rock music, stopping only to eat and sleep – was “three awkward, silent, painful months that would end up with us in Florida”. It is not clear what the point of the road trip was – though Hanks met members of her mother’s family f...

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42 h. ago Two favourites pushing to become the next Pope are accused of mishandling child sex abuse claims

Italian cardinal Pietro Parolin and Filipino cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, cannot be trusted to protect children from abuse, according to a campaign group.

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3 d. ago London man accused of possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse material

London man accused of possessing thousands of images of child sexual abuse material  10TV

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6 d. ago Girl, 9, was chained in basement for years and forced to drink from puddle to survive, investigators say

David Boyd, 64, is facing charges of repeated sexual assault of a child, physical abuse of a child, trafficking of a child and false imprisonment

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6 d. ago Tories ‘sat on their hands’ after inquiry into child sexual abuse, minister says

Dame Nia Griffith said the Government has ‘already announced a comprehensive set of plans’ to ‘prevent the horror of child sexual abuse’.

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7 d. ago How a law made to stop child abduction is being weaponised against mothers fleeing abuse

Award-winning barrister Dr Charlotte Proudman has spent her career advocating for vulnerable women in family law courts. In an extract from her new book, she explores how the very systems designed to protect children can end up putting them – and their mothers – at risk of more violence and abuse

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8 d. ago Local grooming gang inquiries will ‘go further’ than five towns, says Phillips

The Government has faced pressure to act on grooming gangs and child sex abuse.

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8 d. ago Dumfries and Galloway under spotlight in next stage of the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry

Evidence will be heard about Ladyfield at the Crichton in Dumfries and Woodlands School in Newton Stewart.

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9 d. ago ‘I didn’t eat or sleep’: a Meta moderator on his breakdown after seeing beheadings and child abuse

Solomon says the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he had ever imaginedMeta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderatorsWhen Solomon* strode into the gleaming Octagon tower in Accra, Ghana, for his first day as a Meta content moderator, he was bracing himself for difficult but fulfilling work, purging social media of harmful content.But after just two weeks of training, the scale and depravity of what he was exposed to was far darker than he ever imagined. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Meta faces Ghana lawsuits over impact of extreme content on moderators

Workers at contractor in Accra say they have suffered from depression and anxiety as a result of their workMeta is facing a second set of lawsuits in Africa over the psychological distress experienced by content moderators employed to take down disturbing social media content including depictions of murders, extreme violence and child sexual abuse.Lawyers are gearing up for court action against a company contracted by Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, after meeting moderators at a facility in Ghana that is understood to employ about 150 people. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Pope Francis' coffin to be closed by disgraced cardinal who covered up child sex abuse scandal

Roger Michael Mahony was stripped of all his administrative and public duties in Los Angeles by his successor in 2013.

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1 week ago Parents 'planned to sexually abuse baby before she was born' as 'disturbing texts' exposed

Skyler Klassen, 22, and Madison Bishop, 21, were arrested after officers allegedly discovered child sex abuse material on Klassen's phone.

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1 week ago ‘Where is the adult?’: how Leonardo Van Dijl filmed the story of a child tennis star’s abuse

Julie Keeps Quiet casts real-life tennis ace Tessa Van den Broeck as a teenage player facing peril ignored by adults. The director explains how telling the story well required a care the sport itself neglectsLeonardo Van Dijl smiles: “If you told me a year ago that I’d be speaking to the Guardian, I’d have asked: ‘What about?’” Last May, the 34-year-old from Belgium took his debut film Julie Keeps Quiet to Cannes. (Where, he says, everyone was much friendlier after a four-star review in the Guardian.) Ever since, he has been living out of a suitcase, grabbing five or six hours’ sleep. It’s not just media interviews and Q&As keeping him busy: “We are a small movie. I’m the in-house graphic designer. I do the social media ” He stops, looks down at my phone, recording. “But I don’t really want to talk about that. I’m grateful, and it’s not that interesting.”What Van Dijl really does want to talk about is the urgent issue his film raises about safe spaces for children. Julie Keeps Q...

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1 week ago Parents accused of planning to sexually abuse infant 'sent disturbing texts to each other'

WARNING - DISTURBING CONTENT: Skyler Klassen, 22, and Madison Bishop, 21, were both arrested on suspicion of child sex assault after police allegedly found child sex abuse material on the man's phone

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1 week ago AI images of child sexual abuse getting ‘significantly more realistic’, says watchdog

Internet Watch Foundation report shows 380% increase in illegal AI-generated imagery in 2024, most of it ‘category A’Images of child sexual abuse created by artificial intelligence are becoming “significantly more realistic”, according to an online safety watchdog.The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said advances in AI are being reflected in illegal content created and consumed by paedophiles, saying: “In 2024, the quality of AI-generated videos improved exponentially, and all types of AI imagery assessed appeared significantly more realistic as the technology developed.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago ‘Record levels of web pages hosting child sex abuse imagery discovered in 2024’

The Internet Watch Foundation has announced it will offer a new safety tool to smaller sites for free to help fight online harms.

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2 w. ago Church of England vicar admits possessing child sex abuse and extreme porn images

The vicar admitted child sex offences following a raid on his cottage

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