#child-abuse

#child-abuse

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of central Budapest on Saturday, marching to Prime Minister Viktor Orban's offices demanding his resignation over alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions. The protesters, seen carrying soft toys and torches, were led by Orban's main challenger, Peter Magyar, who held a banner that said: "Let's protect children." The protesters walked across the Danube River, with many heading towards Orban's offices on Castle Hill.

Security camera footage from the centre showed the director of the Szolo Street juvenile detention centre kicking a boy in the head. Earlier this week, four staff members were taken into custody, and the government announced that it would place all such child facilities under direct police supervision. On Saturday, thousands of protesters walked through Budapest's frosty streets behind a banner reading Protect the children! and called on the government to take more action against the perpetrators.

In the last year a boy in Brandy Cooney's and Becky Hamber's care was alive, he and his brother were locked in their bedrooms for 18 hours, zip-tied into wetsuits, tube-like sleep sacks and hockey helmets, and surveilled on cameras, a Milton, Ont., court was told during Cooney's second day of testimony. Cooney underwent intense cross-examination Tuesday by assistant Crown attorney Monica MacKenzie.

At the Dec. 2 hearing, Commissioner Todd Olsen issued a protective order prohibiting Smith from any in-person, written or electronic contact with the children. When Smith asked the court to consider pretrial release, Olsen asked the state's opinion, and prosecutor Clifford Ross opposed the request unequivocally. "That's a hard no, your honor," Ross said. He directed the court to the probable cause declaration, citing safety concerns, and maintained that a no-bail warrant remained appropriate, given the severity of the allegations against Smith.

The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission pulled Trooper Michael Gagnon's law enforcement certification Tuesday, a week after he was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery and assault and battery on a child causing injury. The POST Commission suspension order directs Gagnon to surrender his agency-issued credentials and equipment, including his uniform, badge, firearm, cruiser, and Taser. A State Police spokesperson previously said Gagnon has been relieved of duty and suspended without pay.

By around 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, 2022, the court heard Monday, the boy seemed calmer, Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber told a Halton Children's Aid Society (CAS) protection worker in an interview the next day. But when Cooney went to check on him, she found vomit everywhere and he was unresponsive, protection worker Faisel Modhi said in the witness box, referring to his notes from the interview.

destroyed every way I could become a functioning adult

My identity, my immediate family, my extended family, everything was erased,' says adoptee Ju-rye Hwang. Sydney, Australia Ju-rye Hwang grew up assuming her parents in South Korea were dead and that she was alone in the world after being adopted to North America at about six years of age. That was until a phone call from a journalist in Seoul turned her world upside down.

Miguel Adrian Gonzalez, 28, worked at schools, camps and after-school programs throughout the Los Angeles area, L.A. Police Department officials said in a statement on X. Arrested Friday by LAPD detectives and agents from Homeland Security Investigations, Gonzalez confessed to molesting boys whom he baby-sat and photographing their genitals, according to a complaint filed in federal court that charged him with possessing child pornography.

News broke recently that the body of 11-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia had been found buried in a storage container outside an abandoned house. Mimi's body was found more than a year after she'd allegedly died, reportedly following long-term abuse, including starvation and restraint as punishment. Mimi's mother, Karla Garcia, allegedly told her sister, Jackelyn Garcia, that the girl had died after she was starved for two weeks.

Could she be deceiving us now?

An investigation found that Lori A. Maricle, 31, locked the 6-year-old girl inside a closet and pushed a heavy wooden dresser in front of the door so she couldn't get out, police said. Maricle left the home for about an hour, leaving the girl confined in the dark closet. She also left two other children - a 2-year-old and a 7-month-old - unsupervised in the home, police said.

A creche worker who 'upended and forced' a 19-month-old boy in his care onto the floor leaving an outline of a large toy block on his head and cheek has been sentenced to three years in prison for assault.

Los Angeles county will pay $20m to the family of a four-year-old boy who was tortured to death by his parents six years ago in a case that brought scrutiny of the region's child welfare system. Noah Cuatro died in a hospital in 2019, days before his fifth birthday, after being found motionless at the family's apartment in Palmdale, north of LA. His parents, Jose Maria Cuatro Jr and Ursula Elaine Juarez, later pleaded no contest to murder and torture charges.

Footage from a police interview shows Lecka being confronted with CCTV evidence of her repeatedly pinching and hitting children aged between 10 months and two-years-old. Polish-born Lecka is seen fiddling with her hair and looking disinterested as she is told a boy appears to be crying on his mattress. A female police officer then abruptly stops the grilling to ask: Sorry, am I boring you? Lecka says: No, sorry, I'm listening.

Brittney Mae Lyon, 31, was sentenced to 100 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to multiple counts of lewd acts upon children, including non-verbal special-needs girls.

Kevin Jimenez, 25, was sentenced to six months of house arrest and two years of probation for possessing child sexual abuse material on an OnlyFans account.

Sainz was accused of meeting two different teen girls online, bringing them to his home, and sexually abusing them on camera. He faces multiple charges including lewd acts and child pornography.

Jodi Hildebrandt and Ruby Franke, convicted of aggravated child abuse, were arrested in Hildebrandt's Utah mansion where several horrifying torture devices were discovered.