The girl was taken to the UK from Somalia with the intention of removing her organs and selling them to those in need of a transplant, reports The Telegraph. Child protection charities believe the case in unlikely to be isolated, and suspect that smugglers used a group of children. The case emerged as a government report revealed that human trafficking increased 50% in the UK last year.

A crack-addicted childminder has been jailed for 13 years for killing a child she meant to be taking care of and hiding his body in a freezer. Carolyn Renee Miller, 42, who was paid in drugs to look after seven-month-old Ja’veon Mitchell in 2011, may have been high on crack when he died, a court heard. Miller pleaded no contest to aggravated manslaughter of a child and improper disposal of a human body, during a hearing in August.

JOHNSON CITY, TN – An East Tennessee couple is facing a list of charges, accused of selling their children to take part in sex films. Connie Sue McCall, 40, and her husband, Ronnie Lee McCall, 61, of Johnson City have been charged by a federal grand jury. Paperwork shows the couple was selling their four daughters. Prosecutors say the four girls were between the ages of 5 and 16 when this happened.

A Ghanaian pop star who was extradited back to the UK to face child sex offences has been jailed for 12 years after he admitted two counts of raping a seven-year-old girl. Deeba Akyampong, aged 35, was returned to the UK in July to face allegations that he raped a child under the age of 13 between December 2004 and September 2008 when he was in the UK. Akyampong used to live in Northampton, before he returned to Ghana.

Online child abuse study examines nasty new trends including sextortion A report by a European expert group on the commercialisation of child sex abuse online suggests that sexual images and videos shared between youngsters may become a major target for traffickers, who are using increasingly aggressive tactics to gain remote power over vulnerable kids. The study was put together by […]

A mother has been jailed for up to 30 years after burning her 19-year-old son’s PENIS and nipples with a lighter. Christine Gelineau from Massachusetts pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and witness tampering, after she also coerced her son to lie about the abuse. At a hearing in New Hampshire the youngster described in detail the brutal abuse she subjected him to. “Dear ex-Mother,” he began as he read from a prepared statement. “What you did to me is unforgivable. “You beat me, starved me, almost chopped my penis off, threw my clothes away, wouldn’t let me bathe. “You almost killed me by having me take three (antidepressants) and two muscle-relaxers.

A Walmart employee has been arrested after allegedly luring a young boy into a store bathroom while his mother shopped before launching a sexual assault. Matthew Bulmer, 22, from Long Island, New York, was detained at the shop in Islandia and charged with first-degree sex abuse and acting in a manner to injure a child. Police say Bulmer attacked five-year-old child on Saturday night at about 8.45pm.

DETROIT, MI – Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy has charged the boyfriend of 5-year-old Mariah Smith with the 2011 murder of the young child. Smith was reported missing on July 24, 2011. DNA was later used to identify her body after it was found burned in an abandoned home in the 2900 block of Waverly in Detroit. The scene is about a mile from the Burlingame home where Mariah was last seen.

A student apparently opened fire at a Nevada middle school Monday, killing a teacher and wounding two boys, authorities said. The shooter was left dead. A hospital said that the two boys arrived in critical condition. One was later upgraded to fair. Kyle Nucum, a student, told the Reno Gazette-Journal newspaper that he heard “a pop, like a loud pop, and everybody was screaming.” He said the shooter was wearing a Sparks Middle School uniform, and shot the teacher after the teacher told him to put the gun down.

One of the most famous child actors from the 1980s has opened up about sexual abuse he suffered at the hands of older men in Hollywood and how his friendship with Michael Jackson was the healthiest relationship he had. In a new book, Coreyography, Corey Feldman, from hit movies ‘Stand By Me,’ ‘The Lost Boys,’ ‘Gremlins’ and ‘The Goonies,’ recalls his often twisted friendship with fellow child star Corey Haim and how the pair were told by trusted adults that it was normal for older men and young boys to have sexual relations in the industry. Feldman explains his family life wasn’t happy: his former Playboy model mother dyed his hair blonde at age four and tortured him about his weight, force-feeding him diet pills. Meanwhile, his father only seemed to care about him when they were getting high together, he writes.

Whether you’re a new parent overwhelmed by the demands of caring for an infant or a veteran parent whose teenage child is out of control, asking for help is never easy. Too often parents are isolated and without much support. They confront the toughest and most important job in the world with the sense that they have to go it alone. But no one can go it alone.

Greek authorities launched an international appeal on Friday to help identify a 4-year-old blonde girl allegedly snatched from her parents by a couple with whom she was found living in a Gypsy settlement. Police are trying to establish why the girl was living with the couple, who are also accused of falsifying identity and family certificates — with the mother claiming to have given birth to six children within a total of less than 10 months. The child was found Wednesday near Farsala in central Greece during a nationwide crackdown on illegal activities by Roma, also known as Gypsies. Police say they also found drugs and unregistered firearms in other parts of the settlement, which is about 280 kilometers (170 miles) north of Athens.

WASHINGTON – D.C. police have charged a 26-year-old woman studying to becoming a Catholic nun in the death of her newborn son. Police say Sosefina Amoa gave birth to the boy Oct. 10 in her room at the Little Sisters of the Poor elderly care facility. Afraid the nuns would hear the newborn’s cries and discover she lied about sexual activity, police say Amoa told investigators she smothered him. A day later she and a nun took his body to a hospital.

SEATTLE— Authorities in Seattle have ordered a high-risk sex offender who recently fled Canada to register so officials can keep track of him. Michael Sean Stanley, 48, was found Thursday in downtown Seattle and told to register as a sex offender, the Seattle Police Department said. He was not arrested because Canadian authorities have declined to try extraditing him, although Seattle police said he could be arrested if he fails to register.