The first ever campaign targeting the perpetrators of human trafficking and sexual exploitation in Scotland has been launched by police. Officers said traffickers are making potentially millions of pounds from
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Children were sexually abused, beaten and humiliated as they lived in a climate of fear and coercive control at an orphanage run by a religious order, an inquiry has found.
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The fund set up as a result of the Time’s Up and #MeToo movements has awarded more than one million pounds to help women who have experienced sexual harassment and
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A GP groped a woman in an “immature Benny Hill” fashion and sexually assaulted a number of other patients under the guise of medical examinations, a court has heard. Alan
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A woman has been awarded £80,000 in damages in a civil case against a man who had previously been cleared of raping her. The woman, who cannot be named for
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Undercover police have been testing hotel staff’s success at spotting the potential sexual exploitation of children. Officers have over the past week attempted to check into rooms in London accompanied
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A sharp jump in violent and sexual offences has fuelled a 17% increase in crimes recorded on Britain’s railways, official figures show. Some 61,159 crimes were reported by British Transport
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Charities must change to meet public expectations of behaviour if they are to survive and help “those who feel they’ve been let down”, the head of the sector’s regulator is
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A former Plaid Cymru politician has pleaded guilty to making making more than 600 indecent pictures and videos of children. Simon Thomas, 54, admitted three counts of making indecent images
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Technology firms should be more proactive in preventing images depicting child abuse from being made available online, the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) lead for tackling child sexual abuse has said.
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