A pioneering programme targeting new parents is helping to halt a rising trend in babies injured by being shaken.

The trial of Rolf Harris has been unexpectedly delayed just as it was drawing to a conclusion.

Jurors in Rolf Harris's sex abuse trial have been urged to find the entertainer guilty on the basis that 10 alleged victims have given "chillingly similar accounts".

A mother has admitted neglect after her four children - including a baby - were found home along with no food in a dark, dirty house.

A mother who cut her baby's throat was reunited just months later with the child inside the psychiatric facility where she was being treated.

The prosecution in the Rolf Harris indecent assault trial is set to call its first witness overnight.

A prison guard who harboured a bailed paedophile at his home, and then charged the offender's ex-wife $18,300 in back rent has quit after an urgent investigation.

Two New Zealand women allegedly molested by Rolf Harris as young girls could be called as "bad character" witnesses at his indecent assault trial in London.

Rolf Harris used his fame as a children's entertainer to approach young girls and then abuse them over a number of decades, a London court has been told.

Harrowing details of the abuse carried out on young boys by a former teacher at a London private school were revealed yesterday.

The mother of the 3-year-old who was tortured and killed says she was shocked by the Parole Board's decision to revoke her parole.

Aman charged with fracturing the skull of a 10-month-old in his care and breaking another seven of the boy's bones has blamed his children for the injuries.

Two New Zealand boys are among 251 victims of a massive international online child pornography ring busted in the United States.

The mother of tortured Rotorua three-year-old Nia Glassie has had her parole revoked by the Parole Board.

The mother of tortured Rotorua three-year-old Nia Glassie will be released from prison after being granted parole.

An 89-year-old man has been sentenced to home detention on more than 40 counts of historical child sex abuse.

Hastings' Mayor has criticized the sentence of a local man who broke his baby daughter's legs and was released from prison after little more than 12 months.

Timing was crucial in the busting of an alleged online child sexual abuse network, New Zealand authorities say.

Understandably, there has been much comment in the media concerning the tragedy in Dunedin involving the killing of two children by their father.

The BBC will be plunged into a fresh crisis with a damning review that reveals staff ignored the rape and sexual assault of up to 1000 boys by Jimmy Savile.

A convicted German child sex offender tried to abscond to NZ but was returned by officials here to serve his sentence in Germany.

The man who murdered one of his newborn triplets and wounded another in January last year is being locked up for life.

Increasing numbers of children have been physically and emotionally abused in the past few years - starkly contradicting welfare officials' claims.

Peaches Geldof could face a criminal investigation after she named two women who allowed their babies to be abused by disgraced rock star Ian Watkins.