A former doctor has admitted causing “painful cruelty to children” by running a mobile circumcision service. Mohammad Siddiqui, 58, from Birmingham, was a practising doctor when he started visiting homes
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A shy and socially isolated man who “desperately wanted validation” when he created computer-generated indecent images of children to sell to other paedophiles has been jailed for 18 years. Hugh
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A Northern Ireland man at the centre of a global web of catfishing, blackmail and sexual abuse is believed by police to have targeted about 3,500 children. From the bedroom
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Sara Sharif was hooded, restrained and beaten with a belt buckle and pole in a campaign of abuse lasting more than two years before her death, a court has heard.
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The father of Sara Sharif fled to Pakistan after allegedly killing the 10-year-old and called police to say “I legally punished her and she died”, a court has heard. Taxi
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Serious concerns about the record number of investigations launched when information suggests a child is being seriously harmed has prompted councils to call for emergency funding in the forthcoming Budget.
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A former nursery worker wept in court as she went on trial alongside a boyfriend, with both accused of the murder of her two-year-old daughter. Chelsea Gleason-Mitchell and Scott Jeff,
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A former primary school teacher and Scout leader has been jailed after having a sexual conversation with what he thought was a 13-year-old girl. Unbeknown to Samuel Robinson, of Butt
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A further 10 arrests have been made as police continue to probe historic allegations of abuse at a former residential school in Stevenston. Kerelaw (pictured) was a secure establishment for
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A paedophile who murdered an 11-year-old boy while he was a teenager has been refused release by the Parole Board. Convicted sex offender Dominic McKilligan, 44, killed schoolboy Wesley Neailey
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