The number of grooming crimes in Scotland has risen by 80% in the last five years to the highest on record, according to newly obtained figures. Police Scotland data released
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The number of online grooming crimes recorded by police has risen sharply in the last three years, the NSPCC warned as it urged the Government to strengthen its plans for
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Councils have called for more support amid a “harrowing” rise in deaths and serious harm of children linked to abuse or neglect in the year since England’s first coronavirus lockdown.
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The head of a new fund aimed at compensating the survivors of abuse in care has been announced by the Scottish Government. Joanna McCreadie (pictured) will be chief executive of
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A “gorgeous” two-year-old boy who died in hospital after being found critically injured at a house in Bridgend has been named by police. Reid Steele died at University Hospital of
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The lawyer representing the Duke of York’s accuser has warned against anyone ignoring the US courts as he claimed the royal’s legal team have “stonewalled” appeals for information. Virginia Giuffre
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“Sadistic” monks repeatedly abused children at two schools linked to a religious order, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry has ruled. Inquiry chair Lady Smith has published her fifth case study
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A detective investigating the murder of a two-year-old said they believe the man charged with her death attacked the toddler at a house in Co Tyrone. Ali Jayden Doyle died
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Jeffrey Epstein-accuser Virginia Giuffre has started legal action against the Duke of York and said it was “past the time for him to be held to account” for allegedly sexually
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A teenage mother who left her toddler daughter to starve to death while she partied in London and Coventry has been jailed. Verphy Kudi (pictured) went to a 1990s music
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