12 h. ago Predators review – grimly compelling look at reality TV revenge hunt for child abusers

David Osit’s documentary takes a disturbing look at the televised shaming served up by the hit show To Catch a PredatorIt’s too soon to know for sure, but this may end up being ranked as one of the best nonfiction films of the year. At least let’s hope lots of people get to see this, even if it’s a mistake because they meant to buy a ticket for Predator: Badlands. Instead of an alien hunter with gnarly teeth, this offers a profoundly troubling meditation on our collective thirst for revenge – or at least the kind of bizarre performance art version of revenge as served up by reality TV show To Catch a Predator, a US series that ran from 2004 to 2007 and which featured weekly footage of paedophiles and would-be paedophiles being duped, shamed and arrested.Predators’ director David Osit, at first just an offscreen voice but eventually a fully seen (in every sense) presence, explains that he used to watch To Catch a Predator avidly as a young man. Every episode was roughly the same: a m...

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23 h. ago New crackdown on AI images of child sexual abuse as reports double in a year

The Internet Watch Foundation said there has been a surge in AI-generated abuse content depicting infants

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23 h. ago Tech companies and UK child safety agencies to test AI tools’ ability to create abuse images

New law will allow technology to be examined and ensure tools have safeguards to stop creation of materialTech companies and child protection agencies will be given the power to test whether artificial intelligence tools can produce child abuse images under a new UK law.The announcement was made as a safety watchdog revealed that reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material [CSAM] have more than doubled in the past year from 199 in 2024 to 426 in 2025. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Law change set to allow AI testing to prevent creation of child sex abuse images

Reports of AI-generated child sexual abuse material have more than doubled in the past year.

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31 h. ago Vile NHS boss who raped child, 12, and sexually abused five more jailed for 28 years

Senior NHS executive and paedophile Paul Lipscombe, 51, has been sentenced to 28 years and one month in jail for raping a child and sexually abusing five other children

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35 h. ago Our baby girl died after doctors accused my partner of child abuse rather than take the lump on her face seriously

WHEN concerned parents Kayleigh Reif and Callum Floyd noticed a pea-sized lump on their baby daughter's face they booked a GP appointment the next day. But the couple were left stunned when doctors blamed them for causing it - and now claim delays in her cancer diagnosis led to her death. Delilah-Rai Reid-Floyd was just...

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46 h. ago America's first trans lawmaker convicted of child sex crime asked accomplice partner if they'd still go to heaven

Disgraced New Hampshire Rep. Stacie-Marie Loughton, who was born Barry Loughton, 41, pleaded guilty to child sex crimes in federal court last week.

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67 h. ago Heartbreaking final messages of abuse survivor who took own life after being refused anonymity

Kevin Sutherland left a two-minute voice message for his mum before his death that makes her cry every time she plays it. He had been refused anonymity by the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry.

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5 d. ago Met officer who shared messages about sexually abusing children avoids jail— but does get the sack

Messages of a ‘extreme, violent and sexual nature’ were found on former PC Duncan Bouette’s phone

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6 d. ago Former police boss admits viewing child sex abuse material at work

Jevon McSkimming used his work laptop and phone to look at illegal material for years

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7 d. ago GMP officer 'took limited steps' to investigate report of child sex abuse

Helen Jones would have been sacked had she not already resigned, the force's top cop has ruled

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7 d. ago Almost 30% of people abused as children, England and Wales data shows

ONS data, which includes emotional, physical and sexual abuse as well as neglect, suggests 13.6 million people affectedNearly a third of women in England and Wales were abused as a child, along with just over a quarter of men, according to new figures which for the first time include emotional, physical or sexual abuse as well as neglect.The data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) estimates 31.5% of women and 26.4% of men experienced some form of abuse as a child, a total of 13.6 million – almost three in 10 – people. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Nearly a third of women and a quarter of men suffered abuse as a child, new figures show

Some 13.6 million people aged 18 years and over had likely suffered emotional, physical, or sexual abuse, as well as neglect, as children, according to the Office for National Statistics.

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7 d. ago Hundreds of previously closed reports of child abuse cases being reviewed in 'unprecedented' police operation

Around 1,300 previously closed cases of group-based child sexual abuse have already been referred to the National Crime Agency's Operation Beaconport, it has been announced today.

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8 d. ago Child prostitution convictions of abuse victims to be pardoned under law change

The move acts on one of 12 recommendations made by Baroness Louise Casey in her review of grooming gangs published in June.

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9 d. ago Child bride faces execution in Iran for killing her abusive husband unless she can pay £80,000 blood money

Goli Koukhan has spent seven years on death row in Gorgan, in Northern Iran and has a deadline of December to raise the huge sum of money.

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1 week ago Met Police PC admits sending Telegram messages about child sex abuse

PC Duncan Bouette now faces the sack after admitting sending the illegal Telegram messages

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1 week ago Nigel Farage urged to apologise to five survivors of grooming gangs for 'ignorance and untrue statements'

Reform UK leader suggested the women invited on to the child sexual exploitation inquiry panel were victims of other types of child sexual abuse

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2 w. ago Farage urged to apologise to female survivors of grooming gangs

Five women called for an apology after Mr Farage suggested the women were victims of other types of child sexual abuse.

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2 w. ago Tories call for national child cruelty register to protect victims of abuse

Shadow solicitor general Helen Grant said it would operate similarly to the sex offenders register.

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