Thai monks arrested in child sex scandal

Thai police say they have arrested two monks for procuring a 14-year-old boy to perform sexual acts with an abbot, in the latest scandal to shake the kingdom's Buddhist clergy.

• Monk jailed for filming naked girls

Boy, 11, fathers child with woman, 36

An 11-year-old New Zealand boy has been reported to have fathered a child with the 36-year-old mother of a school friend, raising questions on why women cannot be charged with rape in the country.

Too little known on how primary care docs can prevent child abuse

A lack of research makes it impossible to recommend how primary care doctors can prevent abuse and neglect of children who show no signs or symptoms of maltreatment.

• Smartphones to prevent substance abuse
• Damaging our children
• Child abuse disrupts brain, may cause depression

US teacher held for sex abuse in China

A US teacher at an elite French school in Shanghai has been arrested on suspicion of sexually assaulting at least seven children.

• US school re-opens amid sex abuse scandal
• Priest, ex-teacher face sex trial
• China: 'Teacher, leave those kids alone'

Somalia cases of child abuse halved

The number of children killed, maimed, abused and recruited to fight in Somalia has dropped by more than half in the first quarter of 2013, the UN says.

• Violent child deaths rising in Somalia
• Mixed reaction to Shabaab sentences
• Al-Shabaab parades Kenyan hostages

152 new abuse allegations at BBC

The BBC says 152 new sex abuse allegations have been made since the Jimmy Savile scandal erupted last year.

• Bullying a 'real concern' at BBC
• Police ignored Savile claims for 50 years
• Reports link Rolf Harris to Savile case

Children with disabilities 'invisible': UN

Children with disabilities are among the most marginalised in the world, often going unregistered at birth and facing discrimination and even murder, a new UN report says.

• Time to act on child education – SAHRC
• Indian police 'fail missing children'
• HRW: Moroccan child workers often abused

41 CAR child soldiers released

The UN children’s agency says that 41 children have been released from armed groups in Central African Republic.

• Child soldiers patrol CAR capital
• 1000s of children at risk in CAR - UN
• CAR child soldier killed by mob

Teacher whips mentally handicapped boy

Labour relations officials have been asked to investigate a teacher who apparently whipped a 7-year-old mentally handicapped boy with a plastic pipe.

• 6-year-old raped at Eastern Cape school
• Rastafarian pupil returns to school
• Cape Town pupil stabbed on bus

Algeria child trafficking - 13 in court

Thirteen people, including dual nationality French-Algerians, have gone on trial in Algiers accused of kidnapping Algerian children and selling them.

• Algeria, Niger step up border security
• Algeria: 9 nabbed for heroin trafficking
• Moz probes child trafficking

Baby breastfed by vegan mom dies

Vegan mother imprisoned after baby dies of vitamin deficiencies.

Abused children at risk for obesity as adults

A study shows that children who are abused or neglected are at risk of being obese later in life.

• Childhood traumatic experiences linked with IBS
• Childhood depression may be a heart risk
• Young men biggest consumers of sugar

‘My daughter was raped!’

A reader shares every mother’s nightmare, the rape of her child.

Briton flees on roller skates

French police are questioning a 48-year-old divorced Briton arrested on suspicion of slitting the throats of his two young children.

• Search on for dad in snorkelling tragedy
• Dad charged for letting boy drive Ferrari
• Dad applies for legal aid in rape case

Gauteng teacher guilty of misconduct

A teacher who allegedly kidnapped, drugged, and raped a schoolgirl, has been found guilty of gross misconduct in a disciplinary hearing.

• Teacher charged with raping pupils
• Teacher 'allows' girls to sit on his lap
• Racist teacher gets 3-month suspension

Church logs 300 sexual abuse complaints

The Belgian Roman Catholic Church says it had received more than 300 complaints of sexual abuse of minors in 2012.

• Pope seeks decisive action against abuse
• Priest expelled over paedophilia
• Former archbishop denies abuse cover-up

Girl, 13, raped, stabbed, left to die

A 13-year-old girl has been brutally raped, beaten, stabbed seven times and left for dead by a man whose advances she had rejected.

• Sangoma arrested over child bride
• Man gets life for raping girl, 4
• Court hears of teen's terrible torture

Pretoria cop arrested for rape

A warrant officer arrested for allegedly raping a teenage girl in Mamelodi, north of Pretoria, is to appear in the Mamelodi West Magistrate's Court.

• Bail for rape-accused Eastern Cape cop
• Joburg cop facing serial rape charges
• Senior cop convicted on rape charge

Baby found in fridge doing well

A baby girl found in a broken fridge in Daveyton a week ago is alive and well, Gauteng police say.

• Body of missing girl found in fridge
• Baby found wrapped in plastic bag
• Baby abandoned in Westville

Former archbishop denies abuse cover-up

A former Church of England Archbishop has denied claims that he covered up allegations of child abuse against a senior clergyman, which were revealed in the Times newspaper.

• Australia arrests priest for paedophilia
• UK priest molested SA boy
• Anglicans' head sorry for remark

Rapist stepdad's 6 life terms upheld

The North Gauteng High Court has upheld the life sentence given to a man who raped his stepdaughter six times because he believed her mother was being unfaithful to him.

• 12-year-old raped repeatedly
• Man gets life term for raping girl, 6
• Man, 71, jailed for raping girl, 10

Man gets 20 years for raping sister, 3

A 21-year-old man has been found guilty of raping his young sister and been sentenced to 20 years in jail by the Eshowe Regional Court, KwaZulu-Natal police say.

• Stepdad found guilty of raping sisters
• Man jailed for brutal rape on mom
• KwaZulu-Natal man jailed for child rape

Public masturbator denied bail

A man accused of attempting to coerce school girls to perform oral sex on him and masturbating in front of primary school pupils has been denied bail in the Roodepoort Magistrate's Court.

• Cape Town woman accused of selling niece
• School lesson leads to molester's arrest
• Son asks molester dad to leave kids alone

Toddler's death unrelated to rape

A post mortem of a 2-year-old girl allegedly raped by her father's friend showed the rape was unrelated to her death, Limpopo police say.

• Toddler's suspected rapist caught