Teenagers have carried out thousands of rape and sex attacks on other youngsters in a hidden epidemic of abuse, a report reveals today. More than 2,400 children, some as young as 11, are known to be victims of child sexual exploitation by gangs barely older than them, the Office of the Children’s Commissioner for England warns. And a further 16,500 are at risk nationwide, says a study by Bedfordshire University.

A Wisconsin man who locked his daughter in the basement and starved her down to only 68 pounds is headed to prison. Chad Chritten, 42, kept his daughter locked in the basement for six years while her stepmother beat her and her stepbrother sexually assaulted her until she escaped in February 2012 and was rescued by a good Samaritan. Mr Chritten was found guilty Friday of three felonies – second-degree reckless endangerment, child abuse and causing mental harm to a child, according to reports. He was found not guilty of false imprisonment.

A pensioner who was caught with more than a million pornographic images of children was jailed for 19 years today after admitting abusing young girls. John Bidmead, 65, a lorry driver, was watching a video of child abuse when police knocked on his front door with a warrant to arrest him. When police searched his property, huge amounts of indecent material was found on his computers. Officers, who said they stopped counting when they reached 640,000, believe he had more than a million indecent images in his possession.

Women who were sexually abused as schoolgirls decades ago have bravely come forward to talk about being molested by a respected and well-connected teacher at the prestigious Potomac School. Laura Gill was just 14 when Christopher Kloman molested her at his home. She told her parents who reported the attack to the elite establishment in McLean, Virginia. However rather than being reported to the police and losing his job, the teenage girl was told that Kloman would undergo counseling and was allowed to return to Potomac – where she faced him in the school hallways.

Prince William County police charged two women who worked at a Woodbridge day-care center with assaulting and abusing at least three young children who had been in their care. Kierra N. Spriggs, 24, and Sarah A. Jordan, 29, both of Woodbridge, were charged with two counts each of assault and battery and cruelty or injury to a child.

Like something out of a Kafka novel, Justina Pelletier has been ‘disappeared’. The 15-year-old was admitted to hospital nine months ago suffering from a bout of the flu and has been locked away in a stark psychiatric unit at Boston Children’s Hospital ever since with sex abuse victims and children who have self-harmed themselves. For her devastated parents and her three sisters, her plight is almost too heartbreaking to bear. Unable to contact her beloved family or friends, her every move is monitored. Everything sacred to a teenager: her phone, iPad, music and collection of pink fluffy toys – has been taken away from her. She can only see her family for one hour a week and calls home are listened in on.

HOUSTON – A Sharpstown high school Spanish teacher was arrested Friday evening and accused of inappropriate behavior with students. A couple of students at Sharpstown who disclosed that they had been alleged victims of Spanish teacher Ysidoro Rosales-Motola, 56, who committed indecency with a child or improper relationship with a student back on October 10, 2013. Motola has now been charged with indecency with a student under 17 years of age and two counts of improper relationship with a student over 16 years old. Two administrators, and the school principal at Sharpstown High School, have been charged with failing to report child abuse.

A teenager has tonight been charged with murdering a two-year-old girl who is believed to be his girlfriend’s daughter. Dean Harris, 19, of, Yaxley, Cambridgeshire, will appear in court tomorrow morning after the death of Amina Agboola. The toddler died yesterday after being taken to hospital with serious injuries.

Thousands of Arizona children may be suffering abuse despite bravely calling government help hotlines that then ignored their pleas for help. A shocking 6,000 potential child abuse cases have gone uninvestigated since 2009 because a blunder in the system meant the calls were mis-classified, the state’s director of child welfare revealed today. And the department also admitted it had no idea if those children are still at risk of abuse. Department of Economic Security Director Clarence Carter said all 6,000 cases will be reviewed after they were incorrectly logged as not requiring investigations by a staffer in the agency’s call center.

In addition to the pressures of grades, dating, picking a career path and substance abuse, teenagers face the very real threat of violence on a day-to-day basis. The Center for Disease Control reports that the number of acts of violence amongst youth between the ages of 10 and 24 has been cut in half over […]

An Australian techie has sparked outrage by creating a sick Sandy Hook video game where players can shoot their mom, collect ammo and go on a terrifying gun rampage in a school. The Sydney gaming geek, believed to be called Ryan Jake Lambourn, has reportedly caused “deep anger and fury” among families of the victims and survivors of the horrific massacre. His simulation — “The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary School” — sees players re-enacting the fateful day of Dec. 14, 2012.

On the afternoon of October 30, Junjun of Grade 5 Class 1 of an elementary school in Chengdu jumped off the 30th floor of the apartment building he lived in, and died instantly at the scene. According to the residential community’s surveillance footage, at 5:53 pm of that afternoon, Junjun walked into the elevator with his head down, wearing a backpack. His home is on the 5th floor, but he didn’t go home and instead reached up and pressed the button of the 30th floor. A little more than 20 minutes later, at 6:15 pm, a Mr. Lin (pseudonym) who was watching his storefront in the residential community where the incident happened heard a loud “bang”. “It was like a car exploding, very loud.” The bang was from Junjun, when the foolish boy fell from the 30-floor building, and died instantly at the scene.

A ten-year-old boy repeatedly raped and sexually abused a seven-year-old girl over two years after becoming addicted to hardcore pornography, a court has heard. The schoolboy would sit at his home computer for hours scouring the internet for extreme porn, the court was told. After looking at the vile images he would play out his sexual fantasies on the young girl – which later developed into attempted rape and rape. The court heard how he committed sex acts on the girl between the age of ten and 12 when she was aged only seven and eight. Yesterday the boy, now 13, escaped a custodial sentence after a judge heard how he had been physically and emotionally abused as a young child.

A convicted pedophile who allegedly sexually abused more than a dozen children, one just eight-days-old, at his wife’s Massachusetts child care center wants to be physically castrated for a reduced sentenced. John Burbine faces life behind bars for raping and molesting 13 children at the unlicensed Waterfall Education Center between 2010 and 2012. However the 49-year-old’s lawyer today told the court he would seek a maximum sentence of 15 years if the sex offender underwent the pleasure-nullifying procedure.