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Jared Fogle, the one-time spokesman for Subway sandwich shops and now convicted sex offender, is appealing his nearly 16-year sentence on child porn charges, by saying that just fantasizing about molesting children is not a crime.

In the wake of new protestations by Pennsylvania State University President Eric Barron that accusations of sexual misconduct in its football program were not known until recently, another report finds the school has paid Jerry Sandusky’s accusers for incidents stretching all the way back to 1971.

Doctors who examined the two children who had been chained-up outside their home like dogs reported the children showed scars and other injuries from a long history of abuse.

REYNOSA, Tamaulipas — A man arrested for raping and murdering his four-year-old stepdaughter has been killed by inmates during a small confrontation at the state prison in this border city. Law enforcement officials in Tamaulipas confirmed that on Monday afternoon Sergio Oros Sanchez died from injuries sustained during a “scuffle” at the prison in Reynosa.

Police in Texas discovered two toddlers tethered to posts in the backyard of a Bexar County home, where six other unattended children were housed.

After his weekly prayer in Saint Peter’s Square Sunday, Pope Francis dished out harsh words for those guilty of child abuse, after gruesome details emerged regarding the 2014 death of a six-year-old girl allegedly thrown from an eighth-storey balcony by her rapist.

North Korea officials and leaders have kept “Pleasure Squads,” with girls as young as 13 years old, to give the men sex, massages, or to sing and dance while partially clothed, according to defectors.

Authorities in New Delhi, India, have arrested a man after he allegedly raped and attempted to kill a three-year-old girl.

A New Jersey woman, who pleaded guilty to setting her own newborn baby on fire and leaving the child to die in the street, has been sentenced to a 30-year prison sentence, court documents reveal.

An elementary school teacher from North Carolina was arrested in Virginia for traveling from her home to Fairfax County to have sex with a 13-year-old former student, police say. Police in Fairfax County, Virginia, arrested Kathleen Capitano, 24, of Shallotte,

A 18-year-old teen from Houma, Louisiana, has been charged with raping a nine-year-old member of his extended family, police report.

A group of asylum seekers in Austria have been evicted from student accommodation after one allegedly subjected a 13-year-old schoolgirl to a three-month rape ordeal. Around 20 migrants from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, all claiming to be minors, were given

A Michigan man convicted of tying an 18-month-old girl to a motel bed and recording himself repeatedly raping her so he could sell the video to other child predators has been handed a 200-year prison sentence, court documents reveal.

A sex abuse scandal involving young children has rocked the Turkish province of Karaman where a teacher faces up to 600 years in prison. A shocking 14-page indictment against teacher Muharrem B. has caused scandal across Turkey. The 54-year-old is accused

A Utah high school teacher, who in 2015 pleaded guilty to having an inappropriate relationship with three of her teenaged students, said in a letter to the court that after their relationship started, one of the boys began to get better grades.

A California man has been arrested and charged with leaving his infant girl alone in a car in the parking lot of a local strip club while he enjoyed lap dances inside.

A man in a Detroit suburb has been arrested and accused of enslaving, prostituting, and selling a group of women he insisted were his wives, authorities said Tuesday.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Hibo Wardere’s childhood ended abruptly at six years old when she was led to a hut outside her Mogadishu home, pinned to the floor and subjected to the most brutal form of female genital mutilation

Four men living in Utah have been arrested and charged with gang raping and sodomizing a nine-year-old girl while the child’s mother smoked meth in the next room on Easter Day this year.

Just ten days after the American College of Pediatricians (ACP) issued a stern statement warning of the dangers that gender ideology poses to children and adolescents, Planned Parenthood began a campaign on social media to “train the next generation of trans allies.”

During a routine traffic stop, police in Memphis discovered they had pulled over a convicted child molester, but more ominously they found five pre-teen children in his car, none of whom were related to him. Police reported that Jerome Sawyer,

A man convicted of sexually assaulting several children, infecting them with sexually transmitted diseases including the HIV virus, was sentenced to life in prison by a Texas court.

The American College of Pediatricians (ACP) has issued a report urging legislators and educators to reject all policies that condition children to accept as normal “a life of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex.” They say endorsing “gender discordance” is “child abuse.”

PARIS (AP) — French Education Minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem says 27 members of staff in schools and high schools were struck off in 2015 because of paedophilia-related offences. Speaking on French radio RTL, Vallaud-Belkacem says most of those fired where male

Doctors and medical staff have confirmed that at least seven boys, aged between 14 and 16, have been raped inside the so-called ‘Jungle’ migrant camp in Calais. In four of the cases the boys had been abused so brutally they required surgery. Three

A second daycare worker has been convicted for turning her classroom (nicknamed “The Monkey Room”) into a “baby fight club” by making the toddlers in her care fight and for abusing them in other ways.

Renowned Roman Catholic priest Robert Sirico underlined Hollywood’s blatant hypocrisy this week, hammering the film industry for celebrating Best Picture winner Spotlight at the 88th Academy Awards on Sunday, while refusing to disavow convicted child rapist Roman Polanski.

The number of incidents of child sacrifice — in which witch doctors abduct children to use their body parts in potions or rituals — in Uganda increased significantly in 2015 as the nation braced for election season, thanks to desperate political candidates seeking any possible advantage at the polls.

The body of a 2-year-old girl was found in a burnt-out apartment in Brooklyn, killed by a fire started after the child’s mother allegedly left her home alone.

A former Sunday school teacher was arrested in Acworth, Georgia, for sexually abusing the children in his charge and making a video of at least one encounter, but the large number of illegal immigrants in the community is complicating the

Dawson, Georgia, Mayor Christopher Wright was implicated Wednesday during court testimony in the trial of a man accused of molesting and having sex with a young boy and a 12-year-old girl.

A Michigan man has pleaded guilty to raping an 18-month-old girl and recording the act to sell to other child molesters, including his younger brother, reports say.

A Texas man remains in the Bexar County Jail on charges of human trafficking of a child and sexual assault on a child for forcing a 15-year-old girl into prostitution.

A Florida daycare director was arrested for child abuse after video of her mistreating a four-year-old was given to police, per a report by KFOR. The video was shot by one of the daycare employees who was not comfortable with the director’s

The Afghan practice of bacha bazi, or “boy play,” has made a resurgence in recent years. Men use orphans and poor young males to become their “dancing boys” as forms of entertainment. These exploitations often end up in rape and sexual abuse of the vulnerable young males.

An illegal immigrant has been arrested and charged in a case of child abuse that police say “shocks the soul.”