17 h. ago Church daycare shut down after worker ‘gave toddlers Benadryl to make them sleepy for nap time’

Three daycare workers were arrested and charged in connection to the incident, authorities say

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47 h. ago Paedophile scoutmaster who spent 27 years on the run after fleeing to Thailand when he was due to appear in court is found guilty of dozens of child sex abuse offences

Richard Burrows, a former boarding school housemaster and scout leader, had admitted 43 offences and denied 54 others, which jurors convicted him of today.

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52 h. ago Dumfries and Galloway motorbike run aims to raise money for Blood Cancer UK

Carly Smith and her dad Steven also hope the June event will give the region's biking community a chance to socialise.

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3 d. ago ‘Your blood runs cold’: the anguish parents feel after a daycare worker commits a sexual offence against a child

With nearly 2,000 investigations into incidents at NSW childcare centres since 2020 and one provider’s response under investigation, parents are grappling with lingering questionsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEvery time Anna drops her two-year-old at daycare and her child cries as she leaves, she feels a pang.Anna’s concerns go beyond the normal wrench most parents feel when leaving a distressed child at care or school.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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3 d. ago ‘Kids can bypass anything if they’re clever enough!’ How tech experts keep their children safe online

From hacking screen time settings to bypassing website restrictions, young people make responsible parenting in the age of tech feel like a game of whack-a-mole. Here’s how to do it successfully I know I’m not alone as a parent when I admit I have often felt like an exasperated failure in trying to restrict what my children see online. There were the times they hacked their devices’ screen time settings, or managed to stumble into inappropriate content in spite of the controls, not to mention the ever inventive workarounds to access restricted sites. Worst of all is the ill will the rigmarole creates between us all. So when in the first minute of my conversation with digital parenting coach Elizabeth Milovidov, she says, “I think parents need to just kind of give themselves a hug, breathe and start over,” I feel so heard and comforted I could cry.“Parents are incredibly busy. They’re overwhelmed,” says Milovidov. “And then this whole idea of trying to lock things down is not easy. I...

Science

4 d. ago Inside crossbow killer's family that spawned TWO murderers and shocking clues from upbringing that leads to question: Can evil run in the blood?

The brother of crossbow killer Kyle Clifford beat a teenage moped rider to death in 2017. One family: two cold-blooded killers. It begs the question: what sort of upbringing produces two murderers?

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4 d. ago How crossbow killer's family spawned TWO murderers: The clues from Kyle Clifford and brother Bradley's suburban upbringing that could have led to killings

The brother of crossbow killer Kyle Clifford beat a teenage moped rider to death in 2017. One family: two cold-blooded killers. It begs the question: what sort of upbringing produces two murderers?

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5 d. ago Paedophiles should lose their HOMES, ministers are told: Labour urged to follow Aussie example where online perverts have assets seized even if they aren't profiting from crimes

The UK should consider introducing laws to confiscate the homes of people who commit online child sexual exploitation, a senior police chief has said.

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6 d. ago Man, 43, admits having sex with a Shetland pony after trespassing into stables in Wiltshire

Damion Ogeare, 43, pleaded guilty to penetrating a living animal and trespassing with intent to commit a sexual offence.

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6 d. ago Man's life changed forever after thoughtful gift left his own 'blood running down the wall'

Cameron Hassall, 32, had saved up £2,500 to buy his dad a special gift - but what happened next was tragic

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1 week ago Woman hears 'scratching noise' from car boot – and can't believe what it is

A woman was terrified when she heard scratching sounds coming from the boot of her car – and what she saw when she looked inside made her blood run cold

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1 week ago Serial rapist and child abuser Colin Batley who ran sex cult in Kidwelly could be freed within days

Colin Batley was jailed in 2011 after being found guilty of a catalogue of sexual offences including rape and causing a child to have sex

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2 w. ago Former Gabon youth coach banned for life by Fifa over sexual abuse of players

Patrick Assoumou Eyi found guilty by Fifa over actsEyi banned for life and fined 1m Swiss francsFifa has banned the former Gabon youth-team coach Patrick Assoumou Eyi, known as “Capello”, for life after its adjudicatory chamber found him guilty of committing repeated acts of sexual abuse against multiple players.Eyi – who left his post as head coach of Gabon’s under-17 team in 2017 – admitted charges of raping, grooming and exploiting young players following allegations that were first reported by the Guardian in 2021. One former player who was coached by Eyi claimed that the coach would lure alleged victims to his home, which he called the “Garden of Eden”. Continue reading...

Sport

2 w. ago Danny Jones' wife discusses time away from McFly star after 'terrible' realisation

Georgia Jones, wife of McFly's Danny Jones, has opened up about her relatable parenting struggle that makes her feel "terrible" - and she's sure many mums and dads will relate

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2 w. ago Murderer on the run after shooting dead two men exposed by unexpected Google Maps find

Leslie Todd Parvin murdered two men in cold blood during an argument before going on the run. But police were able to track him down thanks to an unexpected Google Maps find

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3 w. ago When It Rained for a Million Years by Paul Farley – thrilling leaps of imagination

An impressive collection of poems – largely set in industrial wastelands and musing on time and distance – makes the mundane magicalThe deluge of abstract thought in Paul Farley’s sixth collection, When It Rained for a Million Years, flows impressively far and wide. In this startlingly imaginative work, blood runs backwards and language itself has eyes – somehow, each word on the page “looks back, puzzled, like it dwells / on distances – between dip / and driving quill”.The “distances” these poems span are unremarkable in geographic terms. Farley is fond of scruffy car parks and cooling towers, PO boxes and photocopiers, taxi cabs and chimney stacks. I cannot always follow the beauty he sees in bus timetables or in a study of stacked chairs. But although the height of glamour involves a flying visit to the dismal grey of Heathrow, this subverted play on grandeur only renders his imagery more sublime. In one poem, a flag memorably “shivers like / a bolt of silk on a bed of nails, / o...

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3 w. ago Travelling with children: the blood, sweat and tears – and the determination to keep going | Lucille Wong

If you feel there are not enough challenges in your life as a parent, may I suggest taking your kids on a flightSharing the Load is a column about parenting children of all agesWe landed in Melbourne after our red-eye flight from Bali. Our then two-year-old was raging with fever (he was not ill when we boarded) and had screamed for five out of the six hours.Dazed and confused, we joined the long line for international passport holders instead of the much shorter family line for Australians. We wasted 40 minutes. That was when our then four-year-old decided to vomit. We cleaned that up (FYI, immigration has spew bags), got past the custom dogs, hauled our stuff on to the insanely packed bus that would take us to the equally packed cheap car park, found our car and drove home, before collapsing into a heap. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Former RAF sergeant 'tried to arrange to meet to children under 13 for sex', court hears

Matthew Brown, 32, who was also a Ministry of Defence private secretary, is charged with three child sex offences

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3 w. ago Child exploitation and ‘cuckooing’ to be made criminal offences

The Children's Commissioner has said that new laws will provide ‘clarity that exploited children are victims’

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3 w. ago 'Dangerous sexual predator' caged after travelling 150 miles to rape child he met on Snapchat

Wayne Philip Phillipson, who is already behind bars for a series of child sex offences, was found guilty of attacking the girl following a trial at the High Court in Livingston in August 2024

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