Child Abuse

Peter Norris's father was a violent bank robber who lived life on the run, dragging his boy across the country with him, until Peter refused to go with him one last time. It was the hardest decision he ever had to make.

The 31-year-old was arrested December last year after several devices were seized in a raid on a Kippa-Ring home. 

She exposed the elite and broke her silence — now she's gone, but her story refuses to die.

When Pope Francis took on the challenge of leading the Catholic Church into a new era in 2013, he said that cleaning up a global sexual abuse crisis was high on the agenda, but some critics say he fell short of his own promises.

The Coalition says if it is wins government it will trial a national child sex offender disclosure scheme that would allow members of the public to request information from police about whether someone who interacts with their children is a convicted offender.

National Children's Commissioner Anne Hollonds says Australia's lack of a national approach is unacceptable, and she urges the national cabinet to make child safety a priority.

Victoria allows people under investigation for abuse and assault to retain their working with children clearance. Parents and advocates say it is high time that changed.

Years after two brothers with disabilities were found naked and locked in a room in a Brisbane home, the Queensland Education department has been urged to make sure suspicions of harm are "appropriately recorded".

Two-year-old Kaydence Mills was killed by her stepfather Tane Desatge at Chinchilla on the Western Downs in 2017 — just months after child protection services returned her to her biological mother, Sinitta Dawita.

A new report into the massive over-representation of Indigenous children in out-of-home care in Western Australia reveals how factors like homelessness and DV can lead to mothers having their babies taken away.

Former Liberal MP Rory Amon is alleged to have sexually assaulted a 13-year-old boy he contacted on a "gay hook-up website" during two meetings in a car park's bathroom, court documents reveal.

Australia's so-called "forgotten children" are once again grappling with extreme anxiety, about potentially spending their final days back in institutional care.

The SA government says it "cannot commit" to stamping out a practice that enables child protection authorities to formally "close" cases of suspected abuse or neglect because there aren't enough staff to investigate them.

Frank Golding is one of an estimated 500,000 former foster children and wards of the state, many of whom are now facing the worrying prospect of returning to managed care in their twilight years.

After battling alone with the stigma of family sexual abuse, Travis found a community thanks to a new form of group therapy.

The inquest into a 14-month-old's death after he suffered multiple injuries has heard his mother's boyfriend was known by the Department of Communities and Justice. 

Demolition has begun at the site of one of state's worst cases of institutionalised child sexual abuse, where dozens of boys were harmed by paedophile Dennis John McKenna.

A mother who sexually abused a student from the age of 12 will spend at least the next two years in jail.

Education Minister Prue Car has rejected suggestions the government is blocking the release of internal documents detailing serious incidents in NSW childcare centres.

Foster carers are given virtual reality experiences like this to better understand what children have been through before placement.