7 h. ago Children's care home manager, 92, 'abused youngsters with help from female assistant during 20

Malcom Phillips, 92, and his assistant Linda Brunning, 66, both accused of sexually abusing children, 'ran the home like a prison'.

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10 h. ago Melissa Gilbert reacts after husband Timothy Busfield is released from custody following child sex abuse charges

Actor and director surrendered himself to police last week, days after an arrest warrant charged him with two counts of criminal sexual contact and child abuse

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11 h. ago Teen had 'sickening' images of children including babies being sexually abused

Owain Hammett, 18, was also found to have been conversing with a paedophile and when asked if he had any images, he responded: "How young do you want?"

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18 h. ago Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart review – her frankness about her ordeal is truly inspiring

Taken from her bedroom at the age of 14 and sexually abused for nine months, Smart, now a child safety activist, rails powerfully against shame in this true-crime documentaryNew year, new true-crime documentary from Netflix. Age cannot wither the genre made famous by the streamer all the way back in 2015 with Making a Murderer, which explored the wrongful conviction of Steven Avery for sexual assault and attempted murder who spent 18 years in prison for that and who was later tried and convicted of another murder. That documentary was a decade in the making. Things move more quickly now, and the preferred content is more palatable to a mass audience – tales of victims’ survival and the very rightful conviction of perpetrators meet the voyeuristic appetite and proxy lust for vengeance without requiring too much painful thinking abut the inadequacies of a country’s legal system, say, or the corruption of its law enforcement.Still, the new approach has brought some astonishing untold s...

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20 h. ago ‘I could not stay silent’: Palestinian prisoner tells of sexual abuse in Israeli jail

Sami al-Saei has defied social stigma to speak out about what a report calls a ‘grave pattern’ of sexual violenceWarning: contains graphic descriptions of tortureSami al-Saei said he heard the Israeli prison guards who raped him laughing through the assault, before they left him lying blindfolded, handcuffed and in agony on the floor to take a cigarette break.At least one of the group knew a crime was being committed and intervened, not to stop the torture but to prevent its documentation. Al-Saei said he heard the man warning others “don’t take a photo, don’t take a photo” as they attacked. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago Headteacher who described sexually abusing a child to mother on fetish website during school hours is banned

Paul Brown (pictured), the safeguarding lead at Bransgore Church of England school, in Christchurch, Hampshire, left in April 2024 due to 'personal reasons'.

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34 h. ago 'Dangerous' chip shop owner jailed after what he did to three teenage girls

Businessman Stavros Theodoulou, who ran a popular chippy in Derby for almost a decade, was jailed after he was found to have sexually abused three teenage girls and two women

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35 h. ago Stephen King 'Misery' torture gang brutalised victim with meat tenderiser

A gang's victim is said to have suffered 'unimaginable pain' when he was sexually abused, waterboarded and savaged with a meat tenderiser in Huddersfield, Yorks

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36 h. ago CCTV could be made compulsory in children's nurseries after paedophile who worked at Bright Horizons for seven years sexually abused little girls

Vincent Chan, 45, had passed vetting and worked for nearly seven years at Bright Horizons nursery in West Hampstead.

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38 h. ago Husband who claimed he was 'sleepwalking' jailed after raping wife more than 100 times

A 62-year-old man has been convicted of five rapes, three attempted rapes and sexual abuse against his wife in a horrifying case after jury at Cornwall Crown Court rejected his defence of sexsomnia

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55 h. ago Taxi driver who sexually abused child in exchange for free lift is jailed

Terence Round, 79, was jailed for four years after he sexually abused a child in his car before giving her a free lift - Round told the girl it was a shame she was not 16

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58 h. ago Depraved dentist learns his fate after raping multiple patients during treatment

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Joseph Clarence Cox, 44, was sentenced to 180 years after being convicted of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse following attacks at his Alabama dental practice

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58 h. ago Yorkshire care home boss allegedly 'told girls to wear nighties' before abuse, court hears

Malcolm Phillips, 92, is accused of sexually abusing children at Skircoat Lodge Care Home in Halifax, West Yorkshire, between 1976 and 1994

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68 h. ago Teenager among Iranian protesters sexually assaulted in custody, rights group says

Two people detained in Kermanshah, including 16-year-old, tell group they were subjected to sexual abuse during arrestA 16-year-old was among protesters sexually assaulted in custody by the security forces in Iran during the nationwide uprising that has left thousands dead, according to a human rights group.Two people, one of them a child, detained in the city of Kermanshah in western Iran told the Kurdistan Human Rights Network (KHRN) that they were subjected to sexual abuse by riot police during their arrest. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Heinous ordeal of young mum stabbed 11 times before ex sexually abused her corpse

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT A devoted mum has been brutally murdered by her estranged husband, who made a calculated plot to attack knowing she'd be alone. What happened next was unthinkable

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3 d. ago Epstein survivors say financier lured them with promise of college education

Multiple survivors claim Epstein dangled admission to top universities to ensnare them in his sexual abuse networkA New York City artist who said Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell shopped her around to men is among the survivors claiming that Epstein used the lure of a university education to ensnare her in their sexual abuse network.Rina Oh was a 21-year-old art student when she was introduced to Epstein in 2000 by Lisa Phillips, a model and Epstein survivor who has since emerged as a powerful voice in the survivors’ network pressuring for full accountability in the long-running money, sex and power scandal. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Timothy Busfield claims there is 'no proof' for child sex abuse charges as wife pleads for his 'protection' in jail

On Friday, Busfield's legal team filed a new motion in opposition to the state's motion for pretrial detention.

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4 d. ago Nursery worker convicted of child sexual abuse charged with 15 offences of taking indecent photos of children

Vincent Chan, 45, has been charged with nine counts of taking indecent photographs of a child and six counts of outraging public decency

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4 d. ago ‘Brainwashing’: the shocking case of a Native American healer accused of sexual abuse

Nathan Chasing Horse, who had part in Dances with Wolves, accused in trial that spotlights influence of ‘medicine men’After learning she was of Lakota descent around 1996, Melissa Leone, who was adopted, hungered to connect to her Native American tribe.“I was grabbing a hold of any and all connections that felt good or safe,” she said. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago London nursery worker convicted of child sexual abuse faces 15 more charges

Vincent Chan, who already pleaded guilty to 26 offences, accused of possessing indecent images of childrenA nursery worker who was convicted of dozens of sexual attacks on children left in his care has been charged with a further 15 offences.Vincent Chan, 45, previously pleaded guilty to 26 offences between 2022 and 2024, including sexually assaulting four girls aged between two and four at the north London nursery where he worked, and offences relating to more than 25,000 indecent images of children. Continue reading...

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