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Before it was taken down, thousands of West Virginians had signed a petition on the White House petition website for the public hanging of a man arrested for the death of a 10-month-old girl who died after a vicious sexual assault and beating.

Tunisian social media has been abuzz with pictures of a 15-year-old groom and his 12-year-old bride from a remote region in the country.

A 10-month-old infant has died from injuries suffered from a vicious sexual assault perpetrated by the live-in boyfriend of the child’s mother, police report.

The leader of a notorious Muslim grooming gang, who preyed on girls as young as 13, has lost a bid to have his convictions overturned after arguing the jury was part of a vast anti-Muslim conspiracy.

Child brides as young as 14 are being reunited with their older, migrant husbands in Denmark after immigration services claimed that upholding Danish law breached their “human rights”.

A south Texas woman will spend 30 years in federal prison for a babysitting scam in which she videotaped the sexual assault of a toddler in her care. The molestation was committed by her boyfriend, a convicted sex offender.

A Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, woman is accused of trying to prostitute her five-month-old in exchange for drugs, a court case reveals.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) announced a new strategic plan to “raise the bar” in preventing child abuse in the Lone Star State. The goal is to move from a plan based primarily on investigation-based efforts to an overall effort to strengthen families.

A 40-year-old mother of two has pleaded guilty to rape after seducing a pair of teenaged twin boys, one of them her own daughter’s boyfriend, reports say.

A New Jersey man is charged with murder after he punched a toddler with enough force to kill him, authorities say.

A Turkish newspaper has warned citizens not to travel to Sweden due to the high rate of rape as the row between the two countries over an age of consent court case continues. Turkish newspaper Günes has furthered tensions between

Turkey’s Islamist government has summoned the Swedish ambassador in Ankara for ticking-off after the Nordic nation’s foreign minister condemned Turkey effectively decriminalising sex with children as young a 15.

A woman in Chicago has been arrested and charged with starving her four-year-old son to death and then burning his body, reports say.

Even as the Olympic Games launch in Rio de Janeiro tonight, fresh allegations that America’s biggest gymnastics organization has not done enough to investigate charges of the sexual abuse of young athletes by officials and coaches make headlines.

A 3-year-old boy is in critical condition in a San Antonio hospital after his father’s girlfriend allegedly held the child under scalding hot water as punishment for soiling his pants. The father and his girlfriend did not take the child to the hospital after the incident.

Calling it the “worst thing” she has ever seen, a disgusted judge in Ohio lambasted a woman after being found guilty of allowing her drug dealer to repeatedly rape her 11-year-old daughter in exchange for drugs to feed her addiction.

Two Texas House hearings have been held to address nightmares with the Texas Child Protective Services agency. During one of those hearings, a state representative who was chairman of the committee, angrily shut-out a discussion of the due process and other constitutional rights of parents.

A Montgomery, Pennsylvania, court has at last found an illegal immigrant guilty of breaking into a Hatfield Township apartment and raping a six-year-old girl while her parents slept in another room, documents reveal.

Police in Kansas City, Kansas, have arrested a man and charged him with placing an ad on Craigslist offering a two-year-old girl for sex.

A bystander wielding a baseball bat may have saved the life of a two-year-old girl who was being severely beaten by her own father at a Vancouver, Washington, motel, authorities report.

A jury took just two hours to sentence a Texas mom to 99 years for failing to seek medical care for her five-year-old step-son. The boy had been beaten and weighed just 38 pounds when he died.

LONDON, June 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British teachers should be vigilant ahead of the long summer holidays for warning signs that parents might take their children abroad to marry them off or undergo female genital mutilation (FGM), experts warned

“Do you really think I’m a motherf***er?” Steve Wentz, president of United Teachers of Wichita (UTW), describes to the undercover journalists what he asks his student. “Son, go for it and I’ll give you the first shot…I will kick your f***ing ass.”

A mother has pleaded guilty in the starvation case of her five-year-old son. The boy’s father and step-grandmother will face a jury on charges that they starved and beat the little boy.

Police in Orlando, Florida, are charging an adult, female karate teacher with lascivious conduct for allegedly sending nude pictures of herself to her 11-year-old student.

Fairfax County police are searching for a man an 11-year-old girl says inappropriately touched her in a Target store.

A Montgomery County police officer was one of seven men arrested in an online sex sting meant to snare men looking to arrange sexual trysts with children.

A court in Greenville, South Carolina, has handed down a 20-year sentence to a man convicted of raping a five-year-old girl and infecting her with a sexually transmitted disease, a report says.

A mother with a newborn baby in Bonner County, Idaho, was detained and accused of exposing her infant to the dangerous methamphetamine drug via her breast milk, a local newspaper reports.

A Tennessee man has been sentenced to life in prison for selling his three young daughters to a child pornographer and for years of sexual abuse in what the judge in the case said was one of the most horrific crimes he had ever seen.

An Oregon couple used Facebook to seek justice for their one-year-old son, allegedly beaten and bruised by his babysitter. The sitter was finally charged after an Oregon community and countless social media users demanded action from officials.

A couple from Layland, West Virginia, have been arrested and charged with trying to sell their own baby for drugs, a report reveals.

The father of a two-month-old girl has been arrested after the child was discovered dead with at least two skull fractures, police report.

The search by police in Houston, Texas, for a 24-year-old middle school English teacher who became impregnated by a 13-year-old student has ended, as the woman turned herself in Wednesday.

A couple from San Antonio, Texas, has been charged with child abuse for allegedly making their children eat jalapenos until they threw-up, and then making them eat the vomit.

The president of Indonesia has signed a legal directive which will allow judges to rule that convicted pedophiles must undergo chemical castration, have a microchip implanted in them to allow complete government monitoring, or — in extreme cases — face the death penalty.