A teenager found guilty of taking upskirt videos of two teachers left his victims feeling violated, objectified and vulnerable, a judge has said. Timothy Boomer, 18, was sentenced to a
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The UK Government has added a stalled compensation scheme for abuse victims to the agenda of Stormont’s power-sharing talks. Northern Ireland Secretary of State Karen Bradley wrote to victims’ groups
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There could be thousands more paedophiles in the UK than previously estimated, the head of the National Crime Agency has said. Speaking at the launch of the NCA’s annual national
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Former Celtic kitman James McCafferty has been jailed for more than six years after admitted a string of historic sexual offences against young boys. The 73-year-old, of Lisburn, Northern Ireland,
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The mother of a sister and brother sexually groomed and abused online has said web companies should be made to pay victims compensation, an inquiry has heard. The woman, who
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The first payments have been made under a new scheme set up to help survivors of childhood abuse in care who are elderly or terminally ill. Deputy First Minister John
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The man known as Nick – who is accused of lying when he claimed he witnessed child murders and was sexually abused by a VIP Westminster paedophile ring – fled
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The teenager convicted of raping and murdering six-year-old Alesha MacPhail has been granted leave to appeal against his life sentence. Aaron Campbell, 17, was ordered to spend a minimum of
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Internet giants are failing to properly tackle child sex abuse and remain “immune from liability no matter how reckless or indifferent” they are to the risks posed by paedophiles, an
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It “remains a matter of deep regret” that the Prince of Wales and others were “deceived” by shamed clergyman Peter Ball, a spokesman for the prince has said, after Charles’s
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