Numerous stories of feral children like the young girl exist.

A female Corrections officer has been hospitalised following a scuffle in court.

Police are calling for information on two aggravated robberies in and around Hamilton.

Actress Melissa George breaks her silence on the alleged violent assault that ended her relationship.

A US man has been charged with murdering his university student girlfriend and getting his friend to help dispose of her body.

Beaten boy a shadow of his former self, say worried parents.

Last week, a servo employee helped rescue a British backpacker allegedly held hostage for months. But there are other times strangers have saved lives.

On May 9, 2014, Kahu Vincent was continuously beaten and had his head stomped.

A German backpacker was hit with a hammer while her friend was sexually assaulted.

Stephen James Smith will be given third shot at freedom.

Police have praised a Papatoetoe woman who came to the rescue of her neighbour.

A brave Papatoetoe mother didn't hesitate to confront three weapon-wielding men who bashed and robbed her elderly neighbour.

Four Otago students were seriously assaulted by non-students.

Wanganui farmer Walter Bolton became the last man to be hanged in New Zealand when he was taken to the scaffold on this day 60 years ago.

Brenda Floyd was turning out lights, getting her 94-year-old patient ready for bed, when she noticed the plate of food on the floor.

Queensland police have laid more charges against the mother of fatally injured toddler Mason Jet Lee and her former partner.

Police renew focus on Pine Beach camp in hunt for evidence

Ex-wife of a former top sportsman speaks of her abusive marriage in a bid to highligh family violence can and does happen in all kinds of Kiwi homes.

The details of the first conversation between the father of Olivia Hope and the man convicted of her murder are revealed in a magazine article today.

The family of a Kiwi woman battered to death by her partner in Scotland are outraged by his four-year prison sentence.

Police are hunting three men over a suspicious death in Upper Hutt, which has sparked a homicide investigation.

CCTV footage shows a man kicking a woman in the back, sending her flying eight steps down a flight of stairs.

Aspiring model tells sex trial of tears and confusion after acting coach allegedly performed oral sex on her in attempt to make her 'less inhibited'.

Source: SKY News Australia. Murder-accused Vinzent Tarantino led police to an area of dense bush in Bulli Tops near Wollongong yesterday, where the 12-year-old's body is believed to be buried.

A British woman who was arrested after she was allegedly gang-raped in Dubai last night said: 'The truth will out'.

Todd Kohlhepp was also arrested for the kidnapping and sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl in 1986, when he was 15.

Father Jason Headland charged with murdering his two children, aged 3 and 5, in their Perth home.

Source: YouTube: Daily News. Shocking CCTV footage of a one-punch assault at Perth's Amplifier Bar in January has been released by the Perth District Court. 22-year-old Brent Robert Johnston was sentenced to 12 months in jail for the unprovoked attack.

A mother who died at the hands of her son will be cremated alongside him and their ashes interred together.

Source: Nine News Australia