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The rise in attacks on young children is not just a statistical blip, experts say The number of young children injured in violent attacks has risen 8% in a year, according to a survey of […] […]

Monsignor Luiz Marques Barbosa [right] is accused of abusing boys as young as 12. SAO PAULO – The detention of an 83-year-old priest in Brazil for allegedly abusing boys as young as 12 has added […] […]

A baby suffered 40 injuries when he was kicked, punched and shaken to death by his mother and her boyfriend, the Old Bailey heard today. Bobby Louch was 21 months old when he suffered brain […] […]

Steven Barker [right] was jailed over the death of Baby Peter The number of children considered at risk of harm increased by a third in the two years after Baby Peter’s death, but social worker […] […]

The judge ruled there was substantial risk of forced marriage. It has emerged that two girls living in Northern Ireland have been made the subject of a court order to stop them being forced into […] […]

The image of her two young nephews slumped over on the living room floor of their mother’s house haunts Dasheba Brown. Each time she begins describing the afternoon of March 6, when she found the […] […]

Church attorney says then-Bishop John Cummins of Oakland bore primary responsibility for protecting children from Stephen Kiesle, a priest who admitted to molesting two boys. The Vatican insisted Saturday that Pope Benedict XVI had done […] […]

Police say an 11-month old baby from Peabody tested positive for cocaine after he was found in the back seat of a Jeep holding a spoon with a residue of the drug. The baby’s mother, […] […]

A musical presentation [right] from members of the Devon Sparks and Friends group as they sing ‘This is Jamaica’ at the Institute of Jamaica lecture hall in Kingston yesterday. The occasion was the official launch […] […]