Civil laws under which victims of historic child abuse are awarded compensation require simplification, said Community Safety Minister Fergus Ewing.

Nothing quite brings out my more miserly and rancorous qualities like a Facebook campaign. And the 'cartoon character' campaign is no exception. For those of you yet to have the displeasure, the campaign asks Facebook users to change their profile picture to a cartoon character in order to prevent child abuse.

The child abuse scandal that has engulfed the Vatican has intensified after two more bishops offered to resign and the leaders of 5m Catholics in England and Wales issued public apologies

The pope has written a letter in response to all this business about child abuse by Irish Catholic churchmen. It starts off by waffling on about how Irish Catholics have had a hard time over the centuries but there have been some outstanding chaps in that period too. He continuous with bits aimed at the people who

JUSTICE secretary Kenny MacAskill has praised the "world class" police operation which snared Scotland's biggest child abuse ring.

There's a new post up over on the cultural blog, The Lighthouse. It deals with newly discovered cases of Youth-for-Obama child abuse, racism and how the Left divides societies, as a means to better rule. Breitbart's The B-Cast discuss ABC's premiere of "V", the highest-rated 8 p.m. drama series debut since ABC's "Lost". It was seen by 14.3 million viewers and had a 5.2 rat...

Julian Ware-Lane, the prospective parliamentary candidate for Castle Point has today added his name to the NSPCC's campaign calling for child protection to be a priority in the wake of a series of tragic child abuse deaths. Julian Ware-Lane backed the NSPCC's new campaign which calls for vital child protection reforms alongside continued funding of Childline and the NSPCC Helpline. Signi...

GEORGE Galloway said he was the victim of child abuse today, as he gave his backing to a new government vetting system for those working with youngsters.

The Roman Catholic Church in Ireland may just now be beginning to understand how much it relies on trust - now that it has so little of it. Yesterday’s publication of the truly shocking 2,600-page report by Ireland's Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse found that rape was "endemic" in more than 250 Irish Catholic care institutions from the 1930s to the 1990s, and that the church in I...

It is reported that hundreds of Roman Catholic priests are expected to be implicated in alleged child abuse in Ireland in a major report released today. The Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse has spent nine years looking into allegations from thousands of former pupils of state schools and orphanages, some which date back more than 60 years. It is due on Wednesday while a second report looking...