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

An urgent review of child protection starts in the London borough where a 17-month-old boy died after months of abuse.

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...

Patrick Vessey over at the LPUK blog discusses 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 pa...

Writing over on Up Pompeii, Gandalf rightly takes Islam to task over its (ab)use of people with learning difficulties in arranged marriages. The callous use of people with learning disabilities or who are physically disabled by the religion of peace followers is child abuse, I say child abuse because people with a learning disability very often have the IQ of a child, the chronological age is not ...

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 ...

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

Of course child sexual abuse is a heinous crime that should be punished. But fantasising about child sexual abuse should not be.

Thousands of children supposedly educated at home by their parents are at risk of abuse, neglect, forced marriage, sexual exploitation or domestic servitude, the Government said yesterday. Tsk, tsk. Don’t be so mealy mouthed. That these children are not given up to hte tender mercies of the State is itself child abuse. Of course it is. Being taught

Hey, for all the flak the Catholic Church has had over child abuse scandals, at least the Pope never issued a statement claiming that the real problem was that all this child rape may make people think worse of the Church.