CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY, (Philippines): The city government has institutionalised its status as Northern Mindanao's first "justice zone" against online sexual abuse and exploitation of children (OSAEC).
(Reuters) -Norwegian athletics coach Gjert Ingebrigtsen on Monday denied physically abusing his track star son and daughter, telling a court he had been an overly protective father who had tried to help his ambitious children.
KUALA LUMPUR: A mother and her son have pleaded not guilty at the Sessions Court to two counts of abusing her grandchildren, resulting in injuries to the children.
SEREMBAN: The Sessions Court here on Wednesday (March 19) sentenced a daycare assistant to 10 months in prison and fined her RM20,000, in default 20 months in jail, for physically abusing four children, aged between five and six, last year.
SEOUL: South Korea's truth commission has concluded that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption programme rife with fraud and abuse, driven by efforts to reduce welfare costs and enabled by private agencies that often manipulated children's backgrounds and origins.
TOKYO: Seven men in Japan had been arrested as of Monday (March 10) for sexually abusing minors, including their own daughters, and sharing child pornography, local media reported.
(Reuters) - Gjert Ingebrigtsen, father and former coach of Norwegian runner Jakob Ingebrigtsen, pleaded not guilty on Monday as his trial began in which he stands accused of physically abusing two of his children, including the two-times Olympic champion.
SINGAPORE: A man used his mobile phone to secretly record upskirt videos of multiple victims in public, and the police found child pornography in his possession when he was arrested in July 2021.
SINGAPORE: A former research fellow at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) was sentenced to jail after pleading guilty to a charge of possession of child abuse material.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Two dozen people were arrested this week for their role in a criminal group that distributed images generated by artificial intelligence of children being sexually abused, the European Union's police agency said on Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR: Police have arrested a food vendor suspected of possessing child and adult sexual materials in a joint operation with foreign authorities in Kuching on Sunday (March 16).
(Reuters) - The Church of England will seek to bring disciplinary proceedings against 10 clerics including former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey, it said on Tuesday, implementing recommendations from an abuse report last year.
KUALA LUMPUR: There have been 34 cases of child abuse reported in childcare centres between 2020 and 2024, with four death cases last year alone, the Dewan Rakyat was told.
NANTES, France (Reuters) - When police in western France searched surgeon Joel Le Scouarnec's home after he raped his 6-year-old neighbour in 2017, they found a cache of sex dolls, wigs and child pornography.
Google, OpenAI and children’s gaming platform Roblox are among the firms backing a new initiative to provide free online safety tools to firms around the globe.
KUALA LUMPUR: A technician pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here on Wednesday (Feb 19) to ill-treating a child who was under his mother-in-law's care.
SINGAPORE: An accountant who claimed to have sought relief from his unhappiness at work by watching pornographic materials was found to have amassed some 10,000 hours of materials over two decades.
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will make it illegal to use artificial intelligence tools that create child sexual abuse images, it said on Saturday, becoming the first country in the world to introduce the new AI sexual abuse offences.
SEREMBAN: A 20-year-old woman, who had pleaded innocence when she was first charged last September, has now admitted to using a hot metal spoon to cause burns and injuries on the arms of young girls at the childcare centre she was working at.
Physical injuries aside, the psychological wounds inflicted by child abuse may last a lifetime.