Child abuse

'Ritual sexual abuse' of minors: Senior religious Zionist rabbi warns of ‘social narcissism’

Medan said the alleged perpetrators are not strangers but people who may be embedded in daily community life, including in synagogues and shared religious study settings.

Rabbi Yaakov Medan speaks during a protest against the planned eviction of the outpost of Amona, in front of the Israeli parliament on January 30, 2017.
Elazar Rumpler, a senior leader within haredi cult Lev Tahor, appearing in the Jerusalem District Court for a hearing in 2020; illustrative.

Jerusalem court sends senior Lev Tahor cult leader Elazar Rumpler to prison in child abuse case

A young Iraqi girl who has reached the age of wearing a hijab, is clothed in the head covering worn by many Muslim women for the first time during a ceremony organised at the Basra International Stadium in Iraq's southern city of Basra on December 11, 2025.

After Iraq legalizes child marriage, Baghdad bridal market booms as young girls sold to older men

PEOPLE ATTEND a protest over the death of Mahsa Amini, a woman who died after being arrested by the Islamic republic's "morality police", in Tehran, Iran September 21, 2022.

Iran had highest number of executions in over a decade, human rights report says


How do we provide the best care for the mental health of freed hostages?

Medical professionals, based on guidelines prepared by the best minds in the country a month ago, explain how to receive and treat freed children and adults 

CHILDREN ARE forced to spend time in a safe room in Ashkelon as rockets are fired from the Gaza Strip.

Verbal abuse hurts children as much as physical, sexual abuse - study

A new study reveals the alarming impact of yelling at kids, sparking calls for recognizing verbal abuse as a form of child abuse.


Why has Facebook flagged searches of chicken soup as 'child sexual abuse'?

Translations of "chicken soup" in other languages are believed to act as coded language to post child pornography on social media without a trace.

A hooded man holds a laptop computer as a blue screen with an exclamation mark is projected on him in this illustration picture taken on May 13, 2017.

Australia to require AI-made child abuse material be removed from search results

A new code drafted by the industry giants at the government's request will require search engines to ensure that such content is not returned in search results.

 AI (Artificial Intelligence) letters and robot hand miniature in this illustration taken, June 23, 2023.

'I am evil': British nurse guilty of murdering seven newborn babies

33-year-old Lucy Letby was convicted of killing five baby boys and two baby girls at the Countess of Chester hospital and attacking other newborns

 Baby in a crib

Israel charges preschool teacher with hundreds of child abuse counts

The teacher, Rowan Abdel-Hai, worked for several years at HaGan Shel Sigal Preschool in Hod Hasharon.

Preschool-age children accompanied by teacher (illustrative).

South African mother faces life sentence for murder of three daughters in New Zealand

Lauren Anne Dickason killed her two-year-old twins and their six-year-old sister in September 2021, about a month after the family had migrated from South Africa to New Zealand.

 Leah Spies, 7, stands with her mother Chantelle outside where Lauren Anne Dickason, a woman charged with murdering her three young daughters just weeks after arriving in New Zealand from South Africa, used to live, in Pretoria, South Africa, September 24, 2021.

'The Sizzling Schnitzel:' A startling summer warning for parents

"The video," United Hatzala explained in a statement, "serves as a powerful reminder of the life-threatening consequences that can result from negligence with regard to leaving children in cars."

 A young child uses a tablet in the back seat of a car (illustrative)

German police busted for Nazi symbols and child porn

Investigators discovered five junior police officers who were in possession of child pornography and exchanged Nazi imagery in a group chat. 

 German police secures the area at the scene of a hostage situation at a pharmacy in the western German city of Karlsruhe, Germany, March 10, 2023. Police in Karlsruhe cordoned off an area in the central part of the city and urged residents to avoid the area.

Ghislaine Maxwell identifies as Jewish in prison, tapping resources for incarcerated Jews

Religious services are being provided through Reaching Out, one of several organizations operated by people affiliated with the Chabad-Lubavitch movement to serve those who are incarcerated.

Ghislaine Maxwell, longtime associate of accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein