British PM pledges intelligence services to probe `dark net' following internet giants' move.

A major inquiry into children's health and child abuse in NZ has made bold recommendations, including a new target to ensure pregnant women have an early check-up.

New Zealand police helped investigators tracking down a global child porn ring, which led to the arrest of 348 people and the rescue of 386 children.

NZ police say they have yet to receive information regarding four Kiwis reportedly caught in an international sting offering to pay a 10-year-old girl for an online sex show.

Enlisting the help of a computer-generated 10-year-old Philippine girl, Dutch children's rights activists turned online sex predators into their prey.

A baby girl was forced to live hidden in the boot of her mother's car for as long as two years in a case that has appalled France.

A man who admitted murdering one of his newborn triplets and wounding another is facing life in prison, but has been granted bail.

A child bitten by her teacher, teachers smacking children and staff smoking near pupils were among almost 250 complaints - including abuse and neglect - at early childhood education centres reported last year.

Former residents of a home for troubled kids have launched a $500,000 lawsuit against the Govt for claims of physical and sexual abuse.

A major law change which will introduce compulsory security screening of up to 376,000 people working with children has been unanimously backed in Parliament.

Australians yesterday began hearing details of how some of their most trusted organisations allowed child abuse to continue.

Police have charged a woman with attempted murder after a 3-week-old baby was critically injured in Invercargill last week.

Australian artist Rolf Harris's portrait of Queen Elizabeth is reportedly in art limbo, with no-one confirming its whereabouts.

The hospital care received by an Invercargill mother just a day before her baby girl suffered critical injuries is under review.

The 3-week-old baby left fighting for its life after a violent incident at her Invercargill home was so badly injured that a policeman had to drive the ambulance to hospital.

Paedophile teacher James Parker's case was described as the worst of its kind in New Zealand history, so why did he get a minimum non-parole period of only seven years?

A member of the Kaitaia Child Protection Team has defended the action police took in 2009 when an allegation was first made about James Parker sexually assaulting boys.

James Parker subjected 24 young boys to prolonged and depraved abuse.

James Parker "stoutly denied" any wrongdoing during a 2009 police interview when a boy complained he had been sexually abused by the former deputy school principal.

Paedophile school teacher James Parker has been sentenced to preventive detention in an emotionally-charged sentencing before his victims.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett often stands accused of taking a hard line on matters within her purview.

Sexual violence survivors are launching a push for alternatives to jury trials in a bid to avoid retraumatising victims.

Social Development Minister Paula Bennett announced the new measures in compulsory screening as part of a wider package aimed at addressing child abuse.

A South Auckland woman has been raped repeatedly by her stepfather for most of her life - but has never told the police about it.

New measures to protect children from abusers are stronger and sharper than previous tepid responses.