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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
SHAH ALAM: A total of 185 children linked to GISB Holdings Sdn Bhd (GISBH) group have been handed over to their families on bond with conditions by the court.
KUALA LUMPUR: The rise in the number of missing children and child sexual abuse cases is alarming, says Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye.
Physical injuries aside, the psychological wounds inflicted by child abuse may last a lifetime.
JOHOR BARU: Harsher penalties should have been given to a local couple for neglecting a seven-year-old boy, including locking him in a toilet, says Children’s Commissioner Dr Farah Nini Dusuki.
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 4,424 cases of child abuse had been reported as of August this year, with the majority of them involving perpetrators known to the victims, says Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad.
KUALA LUMPUR: A total of 4,424 child abuse cases have been reported as of August this year, with three occurring at childcare centres (taska), says Datuk Seri Dr Noraini Ahmad.
MORE than 1,000 cases of sexual abuse against children have been recorded by the Social Welfare Department (JKM) up until August this year.
Iowa lawmakers are considering a slate of bills that aim to protect children in multiple ways, including requiring those convicted of grooming to register as sex offenders and criminalising the creation and distribution of artificially-generated child sexual abuse materials.
KUALA LUMPUR: Some 2,240 cases of abuse against children were recorded by the Social Welfare Department, says the Women, Family and Community Ministry.
MANILA (Reuters) - The bloodied body of Sheerah Escudero's 18-year-old brother was found in 2017 with hands bound and head wrapped in packaging tape, a suspected victim of the Philippines' then-President Rodrigo Duterte's "war on drugs" that left thousands dead.