55 h. ago Teenage girl died after bed was set alight with lighter, inquest hears

Layla Allen was asleep when a fire engulfed her bunk bed at her family home

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56 h. ago British Sikhs save teenage girl in London: Inside the UK's grooming gang scandal

British Sikhs save teenage girl in London: Inside the UK's grooming gang scandal  Times of India

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3 d. ago Teenage girl poisoned parents' dinner after being 'banned' from seeing boyfriend

A Brazilian teenager is said to have added a notorious banned rodent-killer to her family meals after quarrelling with her parents over sneaking out to visit her boyfriend

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5 d. ago Teen girl adds poison to parents' dinners after being banned from seeing boyfriend

A 17-year-old girl from Brazil confessed to putting a toxic substance, normally used for killing rodents, into the pre-prepared meals of her mum, dad and cousin

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5 d. ago Urgent appeal issued to find teenage girl last seen days ago

Anyone with information on Olivia's whereabouts are urged to contact police

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6 d. ago Teen girl screamed 'paedophile' as she filmed attack on man she's accused of murdering

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: A teenage girl is on trial alongside two boys accused of killing Alexander Cashford, 49, in Leysdown-on-Sea on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent - all deny murder

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6 d. ago Teenagers ‘planned to attack man who thought he was meeting girl, 16’

Woolwich Crown Court heard Alexander Cashford was chased and hit with rocks and a bottle at a seaside resort in Kent last year.

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7 d. ago Teacher sent girl video of himself performing sex act in the bath 'by mistake'

Johnathan Morgan, 35, was found guilty of causing a child to watch sexual acts and inciting sexual activity after contacting the teenage girl via his school email address

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8 d. ago Mother and hero bystander drowned as they tried to rescue teenage girl, 15, swept into sea, inquest hears

Mark Ratcliffe, 67, died while attempting to save Grace Keeling, 15, and Sarah Keeling, 45, at Withernsea Bay Beach off the coast of East Yorkshire on January 2.

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1 week ago Teenage girl dies after taking paracetamol for 'typical hangover'

A family's world came crashing down after 19-year-old Áine Rose Hurst died from a fatal headache, which she thought was just the side effect of a hangover

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1 week ago First picture of teacher who allegedly sexually assaulted girl

Johnathan Morgan, 35, denies sexually assaulting the teenage girl while he was employed as a primary school teacher, a court has heard

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1 week ago Mother and brother of teenage girl killed in house fire are charged with manslaughter

Leah Casson, 18, died after a fire engulfed her home on Vicarage Street, in North Shields in the early hours of January 16, 2023.

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1 week ago Mother and brother of 'bubbly' teenage girl who was killed in house fire are charged with manslaughter

Leah Casson, 18, died after a fire engulfed her home on Vicarage Street, in North Shields in the early hours of January 16, 2023.

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1 week ago Girl Taken review – Alfie Allen is incredible in this twisty tale of teen abduction

This tale of a family dealing with a kidnapped daughter is a deeply engaging, psychologically complex thriller that is a cut above the restA summary of Girl Taken is disheartening; a teenage girl is abducted by a man she trusted and kept for his own grim purposes in a remote secret location, and must use her wits to survive the depravities and maybe one day escape. But in full, Girl Taken, like the 2016 book Baby Doll by Hollie Overton on which it is based, is something much better. It takes the neglected parts of such stories – the sadder, quieter, far less titillating and voyeuristic aspects of what it means to take a person out of her home, her world and her life, and away from those of the people who love her – and fleshes all that out instead. It makes for a slower burn, but a much more deeply engaging and psychologically complex thriller than we customarily expect from such a setup, and – in asking what it really means to survive an act of profound violence – harrowing in a mo...

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1 week ago The Guardian view on granting legal rights to AI: humans should not give house

Anthropomorphising tech helps Silicon Valley shares to soar, but our empathy should be directed to worthier causesMost readers of Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2021 novel Klara and the Sun will have been moved by the portrait of its eponymous AI narrator. As a solar-powered “artificial friend”, bought as a companion and potential substitute for a sick teenage girl, Klara fulfils her duties with a loving loyalty that makes it impossible to think of her as a mere piece of tech.Brilliant, thought-provoking fiction. But back in the real world, anthropomorphising AI may not be such a clever idea. During the summer, Anthropic, a leading tech company, announced that in the interests of chatbot welfare, it was allowing its Claude Opus 4 model to avoid supposedly “distressing” conversations with users. More broadly, amid explosive growth in AI capacities, there is emerging speculation over whether future Klaras may even deserve to be accorded legal rights like human beings. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Inquest opens into the death of autistic teenage girl who was killed on M5 after jumping out of moving police car

Tamzin Ellen Hall, from Wellington, Somerset, suffered fatal injuries when she was struck by a vehicle on the motorway between junction 25 at Taunton and 24 at Bridgwater.

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1 week ago Teen girl who fell out of ambulance on M6 was patient being rushed to hospital

A teenage girl reportedly fell from the back of an ambulance on the M6 Southbound, causing the motorway to close for nearly two hours on Tuesday evening

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1 week ago Teenage girl 'fell out back of ambulance' onto motorway as she was being rushed to hospital

A slip road onto the M6 in Lancashire was closed on Tuesday evening after a teenage girl 'fell out of the back of an ambulance'.

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2 w. ago Teen girl who accused teacher of sex assault faces gruelling cross

Johnathan Morgan, 35, sent the teenage girl pictures of his private parts and of himself performing a sex act but denies sexually assaulting the teenage girl while he was employed as a primary school teacher.

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2 w. ago Teenage girl, 16, and boy, 17, are killed in crash on country lane after car 'swerved off road'

Emergency services were called to reports that a car had left the carriageway on Old Ferry Road at Iwade, near Sittingbourne, Kent, at around 8.30pm on Saturday, January 3.

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