Child Abuse

EU to step up fight against child abuse content

FRANKFURT, Jan 9 (Reuters) - The European Union plans to legislate in the coming months to require technology companies to do more to tackle child sexual abuse, beefing up current…

Read More Here

Apple to check iCloud photo uploads for child abuse images

Apple Inc said it will implement a system that checks photos on iPhones in the United States before they are uploaded to its iCloud storage services to ensure the upload…

Read More Here

Parliament and Council agree on temporary rules to remove online child abuse

EP and Council negotiators reached a provisional deal on new temporary legislation to avoid sexual exploitation of children online and make it easier to report. The agreed changes provide for…

Read More Here

Mastercard to investigate allegations against Pornhub

(Reuters) - Mastercard Inc said on Sunday it was investigating allegations against Pornhub.com following a newspaper column which said many videos posted on the adult website depicted The New York…

Read More Here

Italy – Father accused of torturing and killing 2-yr-old son

Twenty-five-year-old Alija Hrusic, of Croatian origins and in jail for allegedly killing his son, has been accused of torturing the little boy with kicks and punches. The toddler's body was…

Read More Here

Malta: 100 cases of online child abuse investigated over 2 years

Nearly a hundred cases of online child abuse have been investigated by the police over the past two-and-a-half years, with cases ranging from downloading of pornography featuring minors to child…

Read More Here

Disturbing images of underage girls from sex-offender Epstein’s mansion resurface

Video footage of the late Jeffrey Epstein’s 2005 arrest has resurfaced showing disturbing images in his Florida home of underage girls, including one — who appears to be about six…

Read More Here

Cardinal George Pell loses appeal against sexual abuse convictions

Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic cleric to be convicted of sexual abuse, has failed in a legal bid to quash his convictions in Australia. Pell, the former Vatican…

Read More Here

48-year-old Italian man imprisoned for abusing three girls (11-13) after posing as a young girl on WhatsApp

A 48-year-old Italian man posed as a girl on WhatsApp and went on to sexually abuse three girls between the ages of 11 and 13 for three years, police said…

Read More Here

Scicluna urges Polish bishops to do what is needed to fight pedophilia

The Vatican’s leading sexual abuse investigator on Friday urged stronger action from Poland’s Catholic bishops who are under growing public pressure over a pedophilia scandal. The Vatican's sex crimes prosecutor,…

Read More Here

Paedophile ‘Monster’ ex-football coach Bob Higgins given 24 years jail sentence

Paedophile ex-football coach Bob Higgins has been jailed for 24 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing young players over a 25-year period. Higgins, who worked with hundreds of…

Read More Here

Parents arrested in Italy for planning to kill disabled three-year daughter

The Egyptian parents of a disabled three year old girl were arrested in Milan on the suspicion of beating their three-year-old disabled daughter and planning to kill her. Italian police…

Read More Here

Poland to introduce harsher sentences for child abuse

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland's Ruling party promised harsher sentences for child abuse, as the release of a documentary about paedophile priests created a fresh battleground in an election…

Read More Here

Couple who starved and tortured 12 of its 13 children sentenced to life imprisonment

A US couple who starved and locked up 12 of their 13 children have been jailed for life. David and Louise Turpin were sentenced during an emotional hearing that saw…

Read More Here

Pope signs law to prevent child abuse in Vatican and its embassies

Pope Francis on Friday made it compulsory in law to report the sexual abuse of children within the Vatican and in its diplomatic missions worldwide. It is the first…

Read More Here

Cardinal George Pell jailed for six years

Australian Cardinal George Pell has been jailed by a Melbourne court for six years after being convicted of sexually abusing two boys in Australia. The cardinal, 77, maintains his innocence…

Read More Here

Three arrested in Germany for abusing 23 children aged 4 to 13

German police on Wednesday said three men have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing almost two dozen children in the western town of Detmold. Police said the men abused…

Read More Here

Pope Francis appoints Maltese Archbishop Scicluna as Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

His Holiness Pope Francis appointed Maltese Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna as Adjunct Secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith of the Holy See. Whilst remaining the Archbishop…

Read More Here

Catholic Church in Germany acknowledge ‘depressing and shameful’ 70-year legacy of child sexual abuse

The Catholic Church in Germany acknowledged a “depressing and shameful” legacy of sexual abuse on Wednesday after a leaked study said clerics had abused thousands of children over a 70-year…

Read More Here

Pope Francis expresses his pain and sorrow after the sex abuse scandal which hit church in the US

Pope Francis has issued a letter to Catholics around the world condemning the “crime” of priestly sexual abuse and cover-up and demanding accountability, in response to new revelations in the…

Read More Here

Report reveals child sexual abuse cases which bishops covered up in Pennsylvania for 70 years

The New York Times reports that bishops and other leaders of the Roman Catholic Church in Pennsylvania covered up child sexual abuse by hundreds of priests over a period of 70…

Read More Here

Pope Francis accepts resignation of Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson after being convicted of covering up sex abuse

CNN: Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of the Australian Archbishop Philip Wilson of Adelaide, the highest ranking Catholic official ever to be convicted of covering up sex abuse. The Vatican made…

Read More Here

Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram accounted for almost three-quarters of the cases with sexual predators targeting children. A fifth of the cases involved children under 10.

The Telegraph: More than 3,000 offences of grooming children online for sex have been committed by paedophiles in only the first year since a new law on sexual communication was…

Read More Here

Prince Charles asked to give witness statement in child sexual abuse involving Anglican Church Bishop

The Guardian reports that Prince Charles has been asked to give a witness statement to the child sexual abuse inquiry about a paedophile bishop with whom he was in correspondence…

Read More Here