2 h. ago Online predators who convinced vulnerable teenage girls to self

Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh urged vulnerable teenage girls to ‘brand’ themselves

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3 h. ago Who was John Smyth? New documentary looks at the serial abuser's crimes

A new documentary uncovers how the serial abuser evaded justice for 50 years.

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4 h. ago Two online predators face jail for urging vulnerable teenage girls to self

Charlie Johnson and Prince Singh urged vulnerable teenage girls to ‘brand’ themselves

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7 h. ago Widow of Church of England prolific child abuser: 'I’m so sorry'

Anne Smyth said she was alarmed when John Smyth told her he wanted to 'whack' boys, adding: 'It was such a relief that he died. I want with all my heart to say I’m so sorry. I’m ashamed of myself.'

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8 h. ago My father was the Church of England's most prolific sexual abuser: Daughter speaks for the first time about John Smyth

The daughter of one of Britain's most barbaric and prolific child abusers has spoken about her sadistic father for the first time on camera in a new TV documentary.

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9 h. ago Widow of Church of England's most notorious abuser breaks her silence: 'I'm desperately sorry for not confronting him'

A new documentary shows the extent of John Smyth’s abuse and his wife’s remorse for not confronting her husband

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10 h. ago John Smyth: Timeline of abuse scandal that led Archbishop of Canterbury to resign

The independent Makin report concluded that Smyth’s abuse was covered up within the Church of England for years

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53 h. ago Paedophile cousins who abused young girls in sickening crimes are jailed for decades

Manzorr Hussain and his cousin Imtiaz Ali were convicted for the crimes committed in Bury in the late 1990s

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3 d. ago Chilling moment serial killer Joanna Dennehy 'reels in' police officer after murder arrest

Serial killer Joanna Dennehy, whose case is being revisited in new Amazon Prime documentary Confessions of a Female Serial Killer, 'flirted' with male police officers after being arrested for murder

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6 d. ago Mother charged with enabling sexual abuse of daughter, 11, who gave birth at home

Cherie Walker, 33, and her partner Dustin Walker, 34, were arrested after an 11-year-old girl gave birth in their Oklahoma home. DNA tests showed Dustin was a 99.9% match as the baby's father, court documents state.

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7 d. ago ‘Greggy’s Cult’ leaders arrested for blackmailing minors into committing ‘horrific acts of self

Five men accused of using extortion threats to bully young gamers into performing degrading and sexually explicit acts on web cameras

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7 d. ago Paedophile nursery worker admits filming himself sexually abusing children in his care

Vincent Chen filmed children as young as two years old while using a work-issued iPad

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7 d. ago London nursery worker sexually abused children as young as two during naptime

Vincent Chan carried out the abuse when employed as a nursery worker in West Hampstead

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1 week ago Utah dad charged with child torture after taking his small children on mountain hike, ending with two of them unconscious

A now-deactivated GoFundMe page initially called Utah father-of-three Micah Smith a hero for saving his kids during a storm on their dangerous hike

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2 w. ago Christy review – Sydney Sweeney pummels a boxing pioneer’s story into lifeless cliche

Underpowered David Michôd film fails to land the story of the groundbreaking 90s female boxing champion and the horrendous abuse she faced at home An uninspired and undirected performance from Sydney Sweeney means there’s a fatal lack of power in this movie from director and co-writer David Michôd. It manages to be unsubtle without being powerful. His subject is Christy Salters Martin, who under the grinning tutelage of Don King became the world’s most successful female boxing champion in the 90s and 00s but faced a misogynist nightmare outside the ring.The film fails to deliver the power of the traditional boxing movie, or the real importance of a story about domestic abuse and coercive control, or the sensory detail of true crime. It relies on the simple fact of a woman pioneeringly taking on what had once been solely a man’s sport and relapses into cliche. Christy, with her frizzy hair and brown contact lenses, doesn’t seem to plausibly develop as a character throughout the film,...

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2 w. ago Mum helped sexually abuse her own child then watched as she was dismembered

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT: Victoria Martens was strangled to death on her birthday and dismembered, with her remains partially wrapped in a burning blanket

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2 w. ago London criminals who abused dating apps including Tinder, Grindr, and Hinge for wicked crimes

London criminals who abused dating apps including Tinder, Grindr, and Hinge for wicked crimes  My London

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2 w. ago Megachurch with more than 1.4 million YouTube followers fires pastor accused of child abuse

The former religious leader has since posted bond and been released from jail, according to officials

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2 w. ago Police failed to act on historic sex abuse claims against 'Monster in Met' rapist David Carrick

Carrick’s youngest victim has spoken to the BBC, saying the way police handled the case was ‘disgraceful’

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3 w. ago Child sex abuse victims face ‘agonisingly long waits’ for justice

The wait rose to around 18 months for cases of rape of a child aged between 13 and 15

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