A High Court judge has raised concern after hearing that ministers in a congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses waited more than two and a half years before telling police that a
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Children who are sexually abused by family members are going “unseen and unheard” by agencies who are “woefully ill-equipped” to deal with the issue, according to a new report. Children
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An elderly man who has gone on hunger strike after being accused of historical child sex abuse must be presumed to have the mental capacity to make decisions about eating,
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In the UK, the debate around so-called Asian grooming gangs and the sexual threat they pose to vulnerable white girls shows no sign of abating. A leaked report produced by
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A predator who posed as a boy on a teenage dating site to groom children into sexual activity has been jailed for six years, police said. Valmiki Rampersad, 47, targeted
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Police are continuing to investigate alleged sex offences at a nursery in Devon. Officers launched an inquiry in July last year after receiving information relating to Jack and Jill Childcare
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Standards that would force tech giants to make children’s privacy online a primary consideration have been published by the UK’s data regulator. The final Age Appropriate Design Code has been
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An elderly man with dementia, who stopped eating after being accused of historic child sex abuse, is at the centre of litigation in a specialist court. A judge may have
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More and more parents have been told by police that an individual with access to their child or children is a sex offender – but some believe the current law
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The Prime Minister has been urged to make it his Government’s priority to protect children from sexual abuse. During PMQs, former Tory cabinet minister Maria Miller, who was chair of
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