A man has been charged with the attempted kidnap and attempted sexual assault of an eight-year-old girl who was grabbed after she posted a letter. The girl was attacked as
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An online predator who groomed underage girls in an attempt to meet them for sex has been jailed for eight years, police said. Mohamed Mohamoud, of Uxbridge, contacted the children
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Emmerdale will air a flashback episode delving into Charity Dingle’s past, focusing on the character being abused as a child. In recent episodes of the ITV soap, viewers have seen
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Children’s services have suffered their own Windrush moment, according to a University of Huddersfield professor when he spoke to a committee of MPs. Paul Bywaters, who is Professor of Social
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A man has been jailed for 25 years for sexually abusing three young girls. Tony Chapman, 42, from Rotherham, was convicted of raping, physically assaulting and threatening to kill two
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A former volunteer at an orphanage has told how she tried to cover up a child’s bed wetting to save him from being “ridiculed” by a nun. Margaret White was
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The father and uncle of murdered toddler James Bulger have launched a legal challenge against an order made almost two decades ago which has allowed killer Jon Venables to live
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A former orphanage resident has said Scotland “should be ashamed” for failing to face up to a history of abuse and neglect in its child care system. The witness, who
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Social services dismissed two sisters as “troublesome teenagers” when they were told of sexual abuse at the hands of their mother and stepfather, and returned them repeatedly to their care,
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A police force allegedly returned a laptop containing images of abuse to a man who was later jailed for rape after an investigation by another force. The Independent Office for
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