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


Sara Netanyahu pushes for cameras in Israeli kindergartens

Sara Netanyahu wants cameras in kindergarten to protect the children from abusive workers and to provide evidence of the abuse.

 Sara Netanyahu, Wife of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen at the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, on February 16, 2020.

Huge billboard in Lisbon puts spotlight on clergy abuse as pope arrives

The billboard was put up on the Almirante Reis avenue - one of Lisbon's longest and busiest streets - and reads: "4,800+ children abused by the Catholic Church in Portugal."

 Pope Francis holds the weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, March 8, 2023.

Pope to Portugal for bittersweet 'Catholic Woodstock'

The Vatican said about 330,000 young people have registered for an event in Portugal dubbed "the Catholic Woodstock."

 People participate in a vigil in support of the 4,815 children that were sexually abused by members of the Portuguese Catholic Church, according to the commission investigating the issue, in Lisbon, Portugal, February 22, 2023.

Palestinian child sacrifices - opinion

Brainwashing Palestinian children to hate, kill, and be killed, as demonstrated by Palestinian Media Watch, is not random. Rather, it is part of a concerted effort to vilify and delegitimize Israel.

 YOUNG PALESTINIANS clash with Israeli soldiers in Jenin, in the West Bank.

Toddler dies after mother left her alone for 10 days to go on vacation

A woman in the US was arrested for murder after leaving her toddler, just a year and a half old, alone at home for 10 days while taking a vacation.

 Jailyn Candelario was just under two years old when she was left home alone for 10 days by her mother, leading to her death.

Israelis can now report internet child abuse to police online

The initiative falls under the auspices of the Israel Police's Unit 105, a section of the Lahav 433 unit that specifically handles children's safety on the Internet. 

 Young child uses the computer.

Parents of abused toddlers from Eilat demand thorough investigation of daycare

Parents demanded that the court investigate the woman in charge of a daycare, they accuse of abusing their children.

 View of the Eilat Police headquarters, in Southern Israel, April 21, 2022

US toddler dies after finding unsecured gun and shooting self

A toddler in Michigan died after accessing an unsecured firearm and accidentally shooting themselves.

 A gun with bullets on table

Why do abused children become emotionally-detached adults? - study

The research was a joint effort between scientists at Israel's Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Stanford University in California.

Child abuse (illustrative)

High Court rejects appeal of daycare workers who left baby in hot car

Yaakov Kotovsky and his ex-wife Yelena operated a shuttle service which would collect and return the children. In 2020, a seven-month-old baby was left in the hot car for about four and a half hours.

 A young child is seen sleeping in a car (Illustrative).