About a third of explicit images of children found online by an internet watchdog are selfies, new figures show. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) took action over 124,605 images of
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A whistleblower has claimed senior police “betrayed the public” and tried to “bury the truth” after a damning report revealed officers suspected young girls were being abused “in plain sight”
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Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins has apologised to the children abused “in plain sight” by the grooming gangs his officers failed to bring to justice. He spoke after
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A national investigation is to examine the “disturbing pattern” of failings at some residential schools which has allowed child sexual abuse to take place. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual
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A “feared” evangelical pastor who used his trusted position to abuse children and adults over 20 years has been convicted of multiple rapes of members of his congregation. Self-styled prophet
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Around one in five adults in England and Wales experienced a form of child abuse before they turned 16, figures suggest. In the year to March, the Crime Survey for
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Dozens of children suspected of being groomed and abused by gangs of Asian men operating in “plain sight” were failed by police and local authorities, a damning report has concluded.
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Ninety cyber crimes a day have been recorded against children since the introduction of Government plans to tackle online harms, the NSPCC estimates. The charity predicts that more than 25,300
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A 29-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murdering one of Britain’s worst paedophiles. Richard Huckle died at HMP Full Sutton in Yorkshire on October 13 last year, reportedly
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A two-year-old boy who died in hospital has been named as Keigan Ronnie O’Brien. The youngster was treated by ambulance staff following reports that he was in cardiac arrest at
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