An independent review is under way into the actions of social workers who found “no safeguarding concerns” for a boy who was murdered just two months later by his stepmother.
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A police force in Wales has confirmed it is reinvestigating allegations of historic child abuse on Caldey Island after a man reported being gang raped by monks. Kevin O’Connell said
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A “wicked” stepmother and a “pitiless” father have been convicted of cruelly abusing and killing his six-year-old son. Emma Tustin, 32, was unanimously convicted of murdering Arthur Labinjo-Hughes at Coventry
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A former pupil who was physically restrained and abused by a teacher has told an inquiry the trauma he suffered left him fearing for his life and that it will
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A stepmother accused of murdering a six-year-old boy has pleaded guilty part-way through her trial to cruelly beating the child in the days before he suffered a fatal head injury.
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The “inertia” of Southampton’s board allowed Bob Higgins free to continue to abuse boys at the club, causing them “incalculable” damage, an independent review has concluded. Children’s charity Barnardo’s said
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The wife of a former Commonwealth army soldier murdered her newborn son after “snapping” over the stresses of applying for permission to stay in the UK while struggling to support
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A two-year-old girl who died weeks into lockdown after suffering a serious brain injury was probably killed by her adoptive father, a High Court judge has ruled. Mr Justice Williams
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Children at a Catholic boarding school in Scotland were sexually abused and subjected to sadistic treatment that “destroyed childhoods”, an inquiry has found. Lady Smith, chair of the Scottish Child
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A stepmother accused of cruelly abusing, poisoning and murdering a six-year-old boy has told a jury she blamed the child for problems in her increasingly troubled relationship with his father.
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