Sonja Jessup BBC London Home affairs correspondent BBC Young people at the Voyage youth charity said the Child Q case had left them feeling unsafe “I thought, if it could happen to a girl, that is younger than me, imagine what could happen to me?” It’s more than four years since a 15-year-old girl, identified only...
Two police officers who conducted the “humiliating” strip-search of a 15-year-old schoolgirl committed gross misconduct, a panel has found. Misconduct has been proven in case of a third police officer, after the girl, known as Child Q, was searched at her school in Hackney, east London, in December 2020. Child Q, who was wrongly suspected...
IVF births made up more than 3% of births in the UK in 2023 – a figure roughly equivalent to one child in every classroom, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has said. According to new data, around 20,700 babies were born during the year as a result of in vitro fertilisation – representing...
Metropolitan Police Jacky Jhaj is on the sex offenders register, and is currently in pretrial detention in France The British paedophile charged in connection with organising a “mock wedding” to a child in Disneyland Paris is Jacky Jhaj, who was found guilty of sexual activity with two 15-year-olds in 2016, the BBC understands. Jhaj, 39,...
Support justice-driven, accurate and transparent news — make a quick donation to Truthout today! This story was originally reported by Chabeli Carrazana of The 19th. Meet Chabeli and read more of her reporting on gender, politics and policy. Parents, you’re not imagining it: The cost of child care is rising. By a lot. The average...
Nicola Goodwin BBC Midlands Investigations Team Shyamantha Asokan & Shehnaz Khan BBC News, West Midlands Family handout Alfie Steele was killed by his mother and her partner at their home in 2021 A police force that repeatedly met the family of a nine-year-old boy who was later murdered in his home “did not sufficiently train...
Hannah Karpel BBC South East Investigations Team Gerry Georgieva BBC England Data Unit James Felgate / BBC Children as young as 10 and 11 have been reported to police forces in England for suspected cyberstalking offences. Children being drawn into a world of cyberstalking need to be educated about healthy relationships in the digital age,...
Armenia’s liberal government has never been an ally of the deeply conservative Armenian Apostolic Church (AAC), but when Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan made extraordinary allegations against an unnamed senior clergyman, it blew open a deep divide. “Your Grace, go fool around with your uncle’s wife. What do you want from me?” said Pashinyan. He also...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police at her east London school in 2020 A black schoolgirl who was strip-searched by Metropolitan Police officers was told she “might be arrested” if she refused to comply, a misconduct panel has heard. The girl, known as Child Q, was strip-searched at her...
Tom Felton is to reprise his role as the villainous Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter stage show on Broadway. It marks the first time that a star of the Harry Potter movies has joined the spin-off stage production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The hit play – which serves as an epilogue to...
Fresh investigations could be launched into 287 child sexual exploitation cases that had been dropped by local police forces, Yvette Cooper has told MPs. The home secretary said the cases had been handed to a national police taskforce which will look at whether to reopen them and “pursue any new lines of inquiry that have...
Getty Images Child Q, a 15-year-old black girl, was strip-searched by police in her school in 2020 A schoolgirl was “demeaned” and “physically violated” when she was strip-searched at school by police while on her period. She was wrongly suspected of carrying cannabis, a misconduct hearing for the three Metropolitan Police officers involved has heard....
Liv McMahon Technology reporter Getty Images The EU is investigating Pornhub, Stripchat and two other pornography websites it believes may be falling foul of its online content laws. The European Commission said the sites, which also include XVideos and XNXX, did not appear to have measures in place to safeguard children and their rights. It...
Wilson said he chose to seek therapy about a year ago, a decision stemming from an argument he had with a Newcastle physio during a gym session. The physio, who noticed a change in Wilson’s mood and demeanour in subsequent days, suggested he would benefit from professional help. “What I’ve realised is when football and...
Andrew Harding BBC Paris correspondent Getty Images Protesters outside the court in Vannes have turned out to show their support for Le Scouarnec’s victims It was supposed to be a defining, catalytic moment for French society. Horrific, but unmissable. Unignorable. The seaside town of Vannes, in southern Brittany, had carefully prepared a special venue and...