A member of the Howrah chapter of the child welfare committee who is also the son of a former deputy mayor of Howrah has been arrested in connection with charges of sexual abuse of children at Karuna ...

Ten persons, including a senior official of the rank of assistant director in the state government’s women and child development and social welfare department, have been arrested in connection w...

The CBI on Wednesday arrested Surendra Nayak, the 24-year old youth from Odisha’s Dhenkanal district, for his alleged links with a pan-India child abuse racket. He was arrested for allegedly ci...

The CBI on Tuesday carried out a coordinated search at 76 locations across 14 states and Union Territories in connection with allegations of online child sexual abuse. The agency had filed 23 cases a...

  The Supreme Court on Monday sought response from the Centre on a plea seeking adequate infrastructure across the country for providing effective legal aid to women abused in matrimonial homes ...

The videos are disturbing. A giant python wraps its thick body around the neck of a puppy, which thrashes and squeals in panic. A baby monkey, trembling and screeching in horror, is poked, prodded and...

Pope Francis expressed “shame” for himself and the Roman Catholic Church on Wednesday for the scale of child sexual abuse within the church in France and acknowledged failures in putting t...

The ATP has launched an internal investigation into allegations of domestic abuse against German tennis player Alexander Zverev by his ex-girlfriend Olga Sharypova, the men’s tennis governing bo...

A total of 1,28,531 crimes against children were recorded in India last year, implying that an average of 350 such cases were reported each day during the pandemic, according to an NGO's analysis ...

An Australian court ruled on Thursday that a former principal of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish girls’ school must stand trial on charges that she had sexually assaulted students under her care. The d...