An informant told police in London that Madeleine McCann was stolen to order by an international paedophile ring based in Belgium, according to newly released documents. The unnamed source said a spotter took photographs of her while she was on holiday with her family in Portugal and sent them to the group in Belgium.

By the age of 18 years, two in every five South African schoolboys report being forced to have sex, mostly by female perpetrators. A new study, reported in BioMed Central's open access journal International Journal for Equity in Health, reveals the shocking truth about endemic sexual abuse of male children that has been suspected but until now only poorly documented.

A 21-month-old child adopted from Russia by an American family died after his foster father drove to work and left him in the back seat of the car for several hours in the hot sun, U.S. media reported.

Yesterday Texas District Judge Barbara Walther vacated the temporary orders granting the Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) sole temporary managing conservatorship of children from YFZ Ranch.

A couple in British Columbia have been arrested after placing an ad on online classifieds site Craigslist to sell their seven-day-old baby for $10,000 CAN. A woman alerted the police after reading the ad.

A University of Georgia study that is the first to systematically examine a large sample of female child molesters finds that many of them were themselves victims of sexual abuse as children.

Police in South Salt Lake, Utah are searching for missing seven-year-old Hser Nar Moo, last seen at her home on Monday. In issuing an AMBER Alert, notifying the public of a possible child abduction, police called on anyone with information regarding the child to contact them.

Dr. Tanya Byron who recently reviewed the video games industry and number of video games concluded that there are serious harmful effects on children when leaving them on their own in the digital age and urges governments, the video games industry and parents to work together ensuring children's safety in digital age.

A new website game called Miss Bimbo targets teenage girls and those starting at 9 years old having the creation of a Miss Bimbo doll that is cool as point of the game. There is more to it including things like plastic surgery and breast augmentation. Miss Bimbo has already attracted widespread condemnation.

In many cases, when abusive parents with multiple children target just one child for emotional or physical cruelty, authorities often remove the abused child from the home and return the non-abused siblings.

A German woman was convicted in 2006 of killing 8 of her newborn babies. She buried them in flower pots and a fish tank in the garden of her parents, home near the German-Polish border.