Psychological abuse is something that doesn’t get as much attention as it should, especially from parents of teenagers. They just let them do whatever it is the latter-desire, and soon they find out that their kids are feeling depressed, developed a habit to abuse, gotten into drugs, or are bullying someone. All of these actions are often a result of psychological abuse that they may have gone through while their parents dwelled in a state of denial. As a parent, you need to make sure that your teens don’t go down this road because it’s not a pretty one.It can literally scar or even destroy them for life. So do keep an eye on your kids and stop being shy of using iOS or Android parental control apps for their protection. Your only concern should be to ensure that they don’t face any of the following problems because they can lead to psychological abuse.

As a parent, you can leave nothing to chance while engaged in an uphill battle against child abuse. One of the biggest challenges that you are likely to face throughout the battle is timely detection of the threat. While physical abuse is easy to spot, detecting psychological, emotional, and sexual abuse is a different ball game altogether. Fortunately, technology has provided an excellent solution to the problem in the form of parental controls. Often described as an essential parenting tool in today’s day and age by popular tech sites like TechoMag, they allow parents to spot signs of trouble in time and pull their kids out of nightmarish situations. There are several ways in which parental controls have been playing their part in the war against child abuse.

OKLAHOMA – An Oklahoma dentist and married father-of-four has been charged with killing his mistress’ toddler son after allegedly threatening to murder and mutilate the boy’s father. Bert Franklin, 35, was arrested Wednesday on a first-degree murder charge in the death of 19-month-old Lincoln Van Henry Lewis. The toddler’s mother found him unresponsive at home on Sunday and took him to Mercy Hospital, where he was diagnosed with skull fractures.

An alleged pedophile ‘grinned’ and ‘twitched’ as German detectives questioned him about the kidnapping, sexual abuse and murder of two young boys, a court has heard. The prosecutor told a court in Potsdam, near Berlin, how Silvio S, 33, had apparently practiced what he was going to do to his victims by using a children’s doll. Silvio S, a security guard, is accused of murdering four-year-old Mohammed and six-year-old Elias after kidnapping them off the streets. In dramatic scenes in court the prosecutor placed one of the dolls in front of the accused. It was about the same size as a three-year-old child and was one of eight similar dolls found at the suspect’s home.

POLK COUNTY — Nine men, including a first-grade teacher, former animal control officer, Disney workers and a Publix worker have been arrested as part of a Polk County child pornography investigation. Sheriff Grady Judd announced the arrests at a news conference Thursday. Search warrants were executed at several homes in the county, the Sheriff’s Office said in an operation it called “Operation Child Shield 3.”

A Connecticut TV meteorologist was arrested Wednesday and accused of possessing child pornography. Justin Goldstein, 33, was arrested at the studios of WTNH in New Haven. The station announced that Goldstein had been suspended for the duration of the investigation. Connecticut State Police told Fox 61 that their investigation of Goldstein began last month after videos depicting child pornography had been downloaded to an internet account registered to him. Investigators served a search warrant on Goldstein’s home in Hamden Wednesday and seized computers and other electronic equipment.

KALAMAZOO, Michigan — A Kalamazoo mother will stand trial for the March death of her four-year-old daughter. Daveeta Walker is charged in the murder of Kharisma Richardson. A judge determined Wednesday that there is enough evidence to send her case to trial.

Deputies arrested a Salem pastor for raping a juvenile he met through his work at a local church, Marion County Sheriff’s Office officials said. Mauricio Aguilera-Garcia, 55, was arrested this week by detectives after a week long investigation, sheriff’s office spokesman Lt. Chris Baldridge said. Aguilera-Garcia is charged with rape, sodomy and unlawful sexual penetration.

WACO, Texas – A McLennan County grand jury has ndicted a Crawford High School student on charges of continuous sexual abuse of a young child. Donnie Wayne Howard, 17, is accused of taking nude photos of two young children, recording video of the sexual abuse of one of them, and then sharing the images with a friend using an instant message application. Howard remains jailed.in lie of bonds totaling $600,000.

A Fayetteville couple was charged Friday with felony child abuse of a 2-year-old girl, with one of the accused charged with the 1998 death and sexual assault of another child almost the exact same age as this victim. Jimmy Tyron Baldwin, 48, was with the victim on June 11 before returning her to her biological mother, authorities said. The victim’s mother took the child to Cape Fear Valley Medical Center because she was “not acting right,” police said.

Pembrokeshire, Wales – An eight-year-old boy who died of scurvy was ‘invisible’ to the authorities after his parents refused to allow officials to see him from the age of 13 months. Dylan Seabridge died at age eight at his family’s isolated farmhouse in and had no direct contact with doctors, nurses or teachers for seven years. His parents Glynn, 47, and Julie, 46, who home-schooled him, initially believed he was suffering from growing pains but the true cause was revealed after he collapsed in December 2011 and later died in hospital.

One of the two men accused of raping of a 10-month-old baby girl allegedly bragged about abusing the infant over Skype to an associate. Police also say the Melbourne man, 50, lamented over the fact he and his 50-year-old boyfriend, the baby’s father, ‘did not have enough time to do everything we wanted’ in a conversation with an associate two days after the alleged abuse took place. In another conversation via Skype before the incident, the man allegedly said he and the baby’s father were going away with the child for a few days, adding: ‘incest turns me on so much’, The Sydney Morning Herald reported.

A convicted child rapist has been ordered held on a $500,000 bond on charges that he smothered a five-month-old baby boy in Missoula. Marc Allen Palmer, 25, faces felony deliberate homicide for allegedly suffocating infant Brayden Beal while the child’s mother and Palmer’s mother were sleeping, according to a court affidavit. Allen is a registered sexual offender after being convicted of child rape and three counts of child molestation in Washington in 2007.

Justice will be served for Crystal Williams, stepmom of a 5-year-old boy who was starved and beaten to death. The stepmom will serve a 99-year sentence for the horrific child abuse that led to Josiah Williams’ death just two days after Christmas in 2012. As testified by the Bexar County Medical Examiner, Josiah’s cause of death is listed as “dehydration in a battered, underweight child.” Crystal Williams told the jury that Josiah was a very picky eater, trying to account for him being so underweight.