The government has vowed to confront the practice of breast-ironing, calling it child abuse and saying the police should prosecute offenders under assault laws. In a written parliamentary statement following Guardian revelations that the abusive pra...
A British peer is to table questions in parliament on the secretive practice of “breast-ironing”, after the Guardian revealed that the abusive intervention is spreading in the UK. Alex Carlile, one of the UK’s leading QCs who is a former deputy high...
Sex offenders and paedophiles are travelling to the world’s conflict zones to prey on vulnerable children, the National Crime Agency has warned. Robert Jones, deputy director of the NCA’s child exploitation and online protection command, said offend...
The next of kin of a senior Catholic priest who was accused of sexual abuse before his death wants the headstone she paid for to be removed and destroyed. Deirdre McCormack said she was “outraged and disgusted” at the allegations made by an Oxford a...