In the past week or so, it has been difficult to read the Huffington Post or any other news source without coming across stories about sexual abuse. Just when you thought the Catholic Church had paid off enough people to quiet things down, the scandal gets even closer to the Pope himself.

A teenager who lives in Merseyside who raped a three-year-old girl has become one of the youngest people to be put on the sex offenders register, police confirmed.

PORTLAND, Ore. (CBS/AP) Boy Scouts of America has long kept an extensive archive of secret documents that chronicle the sexual abuse of young boys by Scout leaders over the years.

(CNN) — The head of the Irish Catholic Church, Cardinal Sean Brady, admitted Wednesday that the church’s response to abuse had been “hopelessly inadequate.”

Abused by his father, sodomized by the publicist whom he regarded as a father and fighting back demons of the past-contributed to slide into darkness, embattled former child star Todd Bridges breaks reveals all in his in his new memoir, ‘Killing Willis: From the Diff’rent Strokes to the Mean Streets to the Life I Always Wanted.’

After only serving just over three years in state prison, George Joseph England, 65, who spent 29 years as a fugitive after being found guilty of sexually assaulting three female children, also for 11 years molested Jackie Zudis, whom he purchased from her mother in Vietnam in the 1970s and claimed was his adopted daughter, was scheduled for release today.

Pope Benedict XVI and the Catholic Church are facing acute embarrassment by repeated revelations of sexual abuse of children by homosexual priests whether in Ireland, Austria, Holland, the United States or Germany.

ORANGE PARK – Somer Thompson’s grandmother was among 300 people who came to hear child safety expert Ken Wooden give advice on how parents and other adults can teach children how to protect themselves from increasing numbers of sexual predators.

Authorities seized more than 2,000 photographs from Rodney Alcala’s California home and a storage locker he rented in Seattle. Officials in Huntington Beach, Calif., are asking for the public’s help in identifying any potential victims shown in the photos.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. (CBS 8) – Sadly, Chelsea King and Amber Dubois are not the only victims of child abductions in San Diego. There have been nearly two dozen cases over the past 50 years, which means there are people out there capable of harming our children.

PUTNAM COUNTY — They are children who have committed serious crimes, and their victims are other children. And it’s an epidemic, Juvenile Court officials say. They are talking about child sex offenders, children raping other children.

On any given day, four or five children die in the United States as a result of abuse or neglect and a child is abused or neglected every 40 seconds.

Tavares, FL – It takes a special breed of asshole to go around pinchin’ babies and bending their little fingers and toes back with the intent to cause pain and tears.

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