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


ISIS women using 13-year-old boys as sex slaves to breed new fighters - opinion

Some refuse to accept Caliphate's territorial defeat and seek to bear it more children – using pubescent boys within the camps as sexual partners.

A view of areas where ISIS is still active, from the Kurdish Peshmerga frontline on Mount Qarachogh.

Widespread child abuse by Catholic Church members in Portugal is tip of iceberg - report

77% of the perpetrators were priests and most of the victims were boys.

Storm clouds pass over a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. August 14, 2018

Widespread child abuse by Catholic Church members in Portugal is tip of iceberg - report

77% of the perpetrators were priests and most of the victims were boys.

Storm clouds pass over a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. August 14, 2018

Israeli daycare assistant who abused toddlers gets early release

Liraz Natan, was an assistant to Carmel Mauda, who ran a daycare center in Rosh Ha'ayin where they engaged in several acts of abuse against toddlers.

 Liraz Natan, daycare assistant of Carmel Madua, is seen in court.

Israeli daycare abuse: Mother, daughter get 5.5 years for striking kids

Footage shows how the caretakers abused the children by violently tugging their hair back and forth, pushing them to the ground, striking them, flinging them in the air and smacking them on the head.

 Young Israeli students with their parents make their way to school and kindergarten in Jerusalem on September 30, 2021.

Israeli citizen detained in Greece over 8-year-old custody case

L. has been detained on the Island of Crete since late October due to charges opened against her by her abusive ex-husband in 2014.

 The Greek island of Crete

Raising awareness of domestic abuse could help with prevention - poll

A poll by Wizo found that education officials and youths aren't made aware of domestic abuse enough even with rising rates.

 The Red Flags campaign aimed at raising awareness of domestic violence.

German girl trapped at home for 7 years, finally freed

The 8-year-old girl was deprived of contact with the outside world the entire time she was confined to her mother's house.

 View through the waterway in Attendorn to the church tower of St. Johannes Baptist, Attendorn, Germany.

Man allegedly spreads poison around daycare run by ex-wife

The daycare owner was sent a video of her ex-husband spreading a liquid around the garden of her daycare. The plants he had poured it on later died.

 Illustrative image of a daycare.

Another daycare teacher arrested on suspicion of abusing toddlers

Staff members from over 20 daycares have been arrested since the beginning of the year.

A daycare in Israel