Children were sexually abused, beaten and humiliated as they lived in a climate of fear and coercive control at an orphanage run by a religious order, an inquiry has found.
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Undercover police have been testing hotel staff’s success at spotting the potential sexual exploitation of children. Officers have over the past week attempted to check into rooms in London accompanied
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A children’s charity has launched a campaign to double the number of youngsters it supports over the next five years. Children 1st helped 10,000 children and their families last year
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A drug dealer who trafficked three children including a teenage girl to use in a “county lines” crack and heroin selling ring has been jailed for 14 years after a
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A former Plaid Cymru politician has pleaded guilty to making making more than 600 indecent pictures and videos of children. Simon Thomas, 54, admitted three counts of making indecent images
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A toddler died after being bound and forced to sleep face down in a “cage” bed, a court has heard. Ellie-May Minshull-Coyle, aged 19 months, was tied to the mattress
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Technology firms should be more proactive in preventing images depicting child abuse from being made available online, the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) lead for tackling child sexual abuse has said.
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The Nottinghamshire strand of the ongoing child sexual abuse inquiry has opened with a list of failings by both the city council and the county council over the protection of
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An inquiry into decades of sexual of abuse of children in the care of Nottingham City Council and Nottinghamshire County Council has heard that one boy was abused in the
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Council bosses have come under fire from a family court judge who said a social worker investigating a baby-abuse allegation had gathered evidence in a “wholly inappropriate” way. Judge Thomas
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