A 6-year-old girl, allegedly confined to the same room since birth, was found by police in Brazil. The child was so severely neglected that she couldn’t speak and was only given liquids to eat, officials said. The police discovered the “bewildered” girl after receiving a tip-off. She was rescued from her parents’ custody and the…
Child protection training should be added to accreditation requirements for professions covered under Hong Kong’s coming mandatory abuse reporting system, while schools should compile a list of high-risk students, an NGO and a principal have suggested. The calls were made at the start of the academic year on Monday, ahead of the city mandating 25…
Child protection training should be added to accreditation requirements for professions covered under Hong Kong’s coming mandatory abuse reporting system, while schools should compile a list of high-risk students, an NGO and a principal have suggested. The calls were made at the start of the academic year on Monday, ahead of the city mandating 25…
Hong Kong authorities will launch a guide for professionals required to report child abuse cases by the end of the month, which will include a decision tree that can be used as a legal defence in court. An ordinance that requires 25 education, healthcare and social work professions to report suspected cases of child abuse…
A father in China who has been criticised for locking his naked toddler son in an iron cage claims the pen was purely used to prevent the boy from wandering. On June 16, several naked toddlers were spotted on a red tricycle parked by the roadside in Hainan province, southern China, and one of them…
The number of child sexual abuse cases in Hong Kong has nearly doubled over the past decade, reaching more than 500 last year, with over one in five of the perpetrators aged 16 and below, authorities have said amid a rise in harmful incidents targeting youngsters. Lawmakers on Wednesday called for the government to urgently…
The number of child sexual abuse cases in Hong Kong has nearly doubled over the past decade, reaching more than 500 last year, with over one in five of the perpetrators aged 16 and below, authorities have said amid a rise in harmful incidents targeting youngsters. Lawmakers on Wednesday called for the government to urgently…
Two leaders of what authorities described as a violent online network have been arrested and charged for allegedly operating “one of the most heinous online child exploitation enterprises” officials have ever seen. The leaders, 21-year-old Leonidas Varagiannis, who is also known online as “War,” and 20-year-old Prasan Nepal, also known as “Trippy,” could spend the…
A Hong Kong father, previously sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his three-year-old daughter by shaking her to death in 2020, has filed an appeal against his conviction. A document made available at the High Court on Tuesday revealed that Lau Kai-ping, 42, had submitted an appeal against his conviction for one count…
The number of community nannies under a Hong Kong childcare programme has fallen by more than 40 per cent over a year, with industry players attributing the drop partly to carers’ fears over abuse allegations following an earlier scandal that tarnished the service. According to statistics submitted to the Legislative Council’s Finance Committee by the…