The number of child sex abuse websites in Europe has soared and the violence shown has become more extreme, the European commission and Europol, the European police agency, warned yesterday. Jacques Barrot, EU commissioner for freedom, justice and security said Europe was facing "an extremely dramatic situation" after the number of child abuse websites increased fourfold between 2004 and 2007. At ...

From LifeSiteNews By Kathleen Gilbert Ontario police yesterday celebrated the results of a province-wide child pornography bust, the largest in Ontario's history - yet officers acknowledge they have only scratched the surface of the massive underworld of child sexual abuse in North America. Police officers said at a press conference Thursday that the sweep led to the arrest of 31 child sex of...

Pope Benedict XVIth has signalled that the Catholic Church should involve civil authorities, including the police, in child sex abuse investigations

Young people who can talk openly about sex with their parents tend to delay having sex and are more likely to use contraception when they do. Talking to children about sex Talking about sex to your child doesn’t mean you are encouraging them to have sex. The best way to start talking about sex is to: start when your child is young, as waiting before your child reaches puberty can make it awk...

Police are investigating apparent links between terrorism and a liking for child porn. A link between terrorism plots and hardcore child pornography is becoming clear after a string of police raids in Britain and across the Continent, an investigation by The Times has discovered. Images of child abuse have been found during Scotland Yard antiterrorism swoops and in big inquiries in Italy and Spain...

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.

A letter in today's Telegraph: Sir - We seem to want to take comfort in the belief that child abuse was just as common in the past. Child abuse to the death is many times more common where the mother was not married to the father and the present boyfriend is not the child's father. Those household arrangements are many times more common than in the past. We need not depend on theory. The...

From PA: The head of a child sex abuse police unit hit out today at having to spend thousands of pounds on buying valuable information from internet firms. According to the BBC, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) has spent more than £170,000 on gathering internet data since it was founded in 2006. The sum, which

Child benefits for British families are currently among the most generous in the world, with payouts more than twice the rate in France and eclipsing those in the US, Canada, Italy and Spain.

Jack Straw, the justice secretary, has been asked to intervene in the Jersey child abuse investigation after police were unexpectedly advised against charging two suspects.