Married man, 54, jailed for grooming and sexually exploiting 15-year-old girl
A 54-year-old married man has been jailed for 11 years after being found guilty of having sex with a 15-year-old girl – but the court heard his wife is standing
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True scale of alleged abuse in council foster care may never be known due to poor record keeping
The true scale of alleged child abuse in local authority foster care may never be revealed due to historic issues with record keeping, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry heard. Opening
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Social worker tells of shock when murder accused ‘admitted using force on baby she hoped to adopt’
A social worker was “shocked” when a woman accused of murdering a baby boy she had hoped to adopt admitted she had used physical force on him. Laura Castle, 38,
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Mother jailed for causing death of baby daughter in ‘squalid’ home, police say
A mother has been jailed for causing her baby daughter’s death while keeping her in “squalid” conditions, according to the Metropolitan Police. Eleven-month-old Nafahat died of a chest infection after
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Woman murdered boy she hoped to adopt as ‘frustration turned to hostility’, court hears
A woman murdered a 12-month-old boy she was hoping to adopt as her frustration with him turned to hostility, a court has heard. Leiland-James Corkill was placed with Laura Castle,
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Heroin addict jailed for 20 years over death of seven-year-old son from needless asthma attack
A drug addict whose seven-year-old son died alone from a needless asthma attack after she used his inhalers to smoke crack cocaine has been jailed for 20 years. Laura Heath
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Report into neglected child who had ‘arms taped up’ in cot finds ‘significant failings by professionals’
A severely neglected and chronically underweight 17-month-old child was taken into care only after a contractor reported seeing the youngster in a cot “with their arms taped up” in a
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‘Clear missed opportunities’ by social workers in boy’s fatal neglect death – child protection chief
There were “clear missed opportunities” by social workers ahead of the death of a severely asthmatic boy whose mother has been convicted of fatal neglect, according to Birmingham’s child protection
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Heroin addict mother convicted of fatally neglecting young asthma-suffering son
A nurse warned a vulnerable severely asthmatic seven-year-old boy “could die at the weekend” two days before the youngster’s death, alone and “gasping for air”, after being fatally neglected by
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New book sees former child migrant revisit fight for justice inside UK’s ‘biggest sex abuse scandal’
British child migrants who were physically and sexually abused as children at a notorious orphanage farm in rural Australia have had their long fight for justice immortalised in a new
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