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A former number two at the US Department of Homeland Security is forcing the United Nations to confront one of the worst crises in its history: sexual abuse by peacekeepers. Jane Holl Lute, who also served on the White House’s

The ringleader of the Rochdale child sex grooming gang has claimed he was convicted due to a conspiracy to “scapegoat” Muslims in Britain. Shabir Ahmed, 63, was convicted of multiple child sex offences in 2012, but has now written to

A Muslim Conservative Councillor in Bradford has admitted that some local Muslims believe child victims of Muslim sex-grooming gangs are complicit in their abuse. “They believe it takes two to tango,” he said. His comments come after 12 Muslim men

A boss of a children’s charity has told the Rotherham abuse trial there is “no truth whatsoever” in the allegation that she provided vulnerable girls to Asian men for sex. Karen MacGregor, 58, faces three charges in relation to child sexual exploitation crimes in

The jury hearing the Rotherham abuse trial has heard that a diary detailing the crimes, which was given to South Yorkshire Police by one of the complainants, was reportedly lost. The sister of an alleged victim, known in court as Girl

The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial has heard that having confronted him about his relationship with his daughter, the father of a 14-year-old girl ended up in a fight with the central defendant. Sheffield Crown Court heard how the

The jury at the Rotherham abuse trial has been told a police officer warned a victim of an alleged serial child abuser that fellow officers who witnessed what had happened would not give evidence for fear of landing themselves “in the

LONDON (AP) — Victims of childhood sexual abuse said Friday they were disappointed that prosecutors had dropped a sex-crimes prosecution against politician Greville Janner, who died before court proceedings could begin. Lord Janner, a former Labour Party lawmaker and peer,

The desperate situation in which alleged victims of a Rotherham grooming gang found themselves continues to shock as the abuse trial at Sheffield Crown Court progresses. Although some early effort was made by victims to bring matters to light, it

A teenage skateboarder and YouTube star, who goes by the screen name “Baby Scumbag” has been arrested on charges he used his social media fame to sexually exploit a 12-year-old girl.

The Rotherham abuse trial currently being heard at Sheffield Crown Court continues with more terrible allegations coming to light regarding the sexual abuse of young girls at the hands of Muslim grooming gangs. The latest day of evidence at the

Labour peer Lord Janner has been given a team of publicly funded lawyers following a judge’s ruling on Monday that he is unfit to stand trial on child sex abuse charges. Earlier this week 87-year-old Lord Janner was ruled too ill to face trial

The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal continues to develop as the National Crime Agency (NCA), the ‘British FBI’, prioritises an investigation into two ‘current or former’ Rotherham councillors.  Under the leadership of senior investigating officer Steve Baldwin, 60 or so officers

A retired Detective Inspector from the Metropolitan Police Force has spoken of child sex abuse evidence linked to the notorious address at the heart of the Westminster paedophile ring investigations. Dolphin Square in Pimlico has become the centre of the Met’s Operation Midland

An ex-aide of former Tory Prime Minister, Sir Edward Heath, shot himself in the head following his arrest for potential child abuse offences. Two days after being questioned by police investigating images on his computer, 40-year-old Nick Edgar killed himself

Lord Janner has so far failed to attend court to face the 22 child abuse charges against him. Having been ordered to attend Westminster Magistrates’ Court this morning the former Labour MP now risks being arrested. Legal arguments from Lord Janner’s defence team have been

Lord Janner (pictured on the left) may face a warrant for his arrest if he fails to attend court to face 22 child abuse charges this Friday. The former Labour MP has been ordered to show up, but his defence team

Sums totalling over £120,000 were paid as bonuses to senior officers in the South Yorkshire Police Force at the same time as the child grooming scandal was unfolding. One officer alone received over £50,000 in two years as the abuse of hundreds of

Walmart has joined several other major supermarket chains with its own commitment to enforce its policy of placing Cosmopolitan magazine behind blinders in their stores across the nation.

The Metropolitan Police Force has announced it is investigating the late Tory MP and former Prime Minister Sir Edward Heath as part of an ongoing inquiry into claims of abuse by establishment figures. That means that Ted Heath is now being

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s police watchdog says it will investigate whether police failed to pursue an allegation of child sexual abuse against the late Prime Minister Edward Heath in the 1990s. The Independent Police Complaints Commission said Monday it had

A father and seven other men, including a church pastor, have been charged with 503 child sex offences involving a 13-year-old girl in Perth, Western Australia. Police allege the girl’s father facilitated and participated in the horrific abuse, including aggravated

Several major supermarket chains will place Cosmopolitan Magazine behind blinders in their stores as a result of a campaign launched in April to protect young children and adolescents from the blatant sexual material on the magazine’s cover.

A 34 year old woman has been found guilty of being at the centre of a paedophile ring which abused children for more than a decade in Norfolk and London. The court heard how she and three associates, also convicted,

Authorities were warned by a children’s charity about the ongoing abuse of a white 12-year-old girl in the town of Aylesbury by a Muslim grooming gang eight years ago, but took “insufficient action”, it is claimed. Two days ago, six out

South Yorkshire Police, the police force heavily criticised in the Rotherham abuse scandal, is still failing child sex exploitation victims. A post inspection review by Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary (HMIC) into the force found “major improvements” still need to be made to its

West Midlands Police withheld a report warning that more than 100 predominantly white children – some only 13 years old – were at serious risk of child exploitation for fear it could inflame racial tension ahead of a General Election. It was finally revealed today,

The majority of child sexual abuse cases are taking place in areas with significant Asian populations, a new report has found. Figures revealed by Freedom of Information requests lodged with every police force in England show that London, Manchester and West

A youth worker has outed herself as the whistleblower who exposed the Rotherham child grooming scandal, in the hope that more people will come forward. Jayne Senior handed two cardboard boxes full of documents to Times journalist Andrew Norfolk that

Five men from Oxford have been charged by police investigating child sexual exploitation in the city stretching back 16 years. More than 100 officers took part in dawn raids across the city on Tuesday morning, arresting nine men of Asian

Rotherham Council has revoked the taxi licenses of two men after they were arrested for questioning over historic child sex offences. The men, aged 36 and 37, were detained on suspicion of allegedly committing sexual offences against underage girls between

Children as young as eleven are to be given lessons in school on pornography and on what constitutes rape. The classes will be introduced into English schools following the Easter holidays, amidst concerns that teenagers are being pressurised into having sex

A report into the systematic abuse of white girls at the hands of Asian, mainly Pakistani men has found that the police and social services didn’t do anything to prevent the abuse because they blamed the girls, some of whom

A national debate is urgently needed to understand why Pakistani-heritage gangs have been abusing white girls across the country, according to a serious case review into the systematic abuse of more than 370 girls in Oxfordshire. The recommendation has been backed by senior

One of the Rotherham MPs who is suing UKIP MEP Jane Collins for libel for suggesting that they had information on child sexual exploitation had a daughter and a brother on Rotherham Council at the time of the abuse, Private

A 12-year-old Muslim girl from Australia has had a miscarriage after marrying a man she had initially rebuffed because he was too old. The unnamed child was initially spotted by the 27-year-old at a Mosque in New South Wales, according