Germany investigating 30,000 suspects in pedophile probe

'Child abuse cannot be punished like shoplifting. It is murder. Not physically but emotionally,' says North Rhine Westphalia interior minister Herbert Reul

French writer 'regrets' his pedophile sex tourism in Asia

Matzneff never made any secret of his sexual preference for adolescent girls and boys and it did not stop him winning the Renaudot prize in 2013

50 children saved after police bust pedophile website – Interpol

More arrests are expected as police in nearly 60 countries pursue investigations stemming from an Interpol operation launched two years ago into a hidden 'dark web' site with 63,000 users worldwide

Pope calls child sex abuse like 'human sacrifice,' vows 'all-out battle'

But some victims are not convinced, saying that Pope Francis talks about the devil but not 'permanently excluding child rapists and abusers' from the Catholic Church

Overturned statue of accused Polish priest restored

Polish authorities charge 3 activists for overturning the statue of Polish priest Henryk Jankowski who is facing long-standing accusations of pedophilia

Cardinal admits Church files on pedophile priests 'destroyed'

'Files that could have documented the terrible deeds and named those responsible were destroyed, or not even created,' German Cardinal Reinhard Marx told a landmark Vatican summit on tackling pedophilia in the clergy

Cardinal calls for global recognition of sex abuse in Catholic Church

'The entire Church must take an honest look, undertake rigorous discernment, and then act decisively,' says Indian Cardinal Oswald Gracias

'Concrete measures' on sex abuse needed, pope tells Vatican summit

(UPDATED) 'We humbly and sorrowfully admit that wounds have been inflicted by us bishops on the victims and in fact the entire body of Christ,' Manila Archbishop Luis Antonio Cardinal Tagle tells the assembly

Red-letter summit on sex abuse opens at Vatican

Pope Francis sets aside three and a half days to convince Catholic bishops to tackle pedophilia in a bid to contain a scandal which hit an already beleaguered Church

Pope Francis reveals team organizing anti-pedophilia summit

The organizing team will prepare a special meeting on the protection of children to be held in February

Ex-Australian archbishop avoids jail for concealing child abuse

Magistrate Robert Stone has decided Philip Wilson will not need to spend time behind bars, with his age and prior good record taken into account

Chilean police raid bishops over sex abuse allegations

The raids comes after prominent Chilean Catholic priest Oscar Munoz was detained over allegations that he sexually abused and raped seven children between 2002 and 2018.

Pope's envoys in Chile call for justice for sex abuse victims

'Investigating is a duty of justice, we need to do justice to the victims for the good of the country and the good of the Church,' says Malta Archbishop Charles Scicluna

Vatican arrests ex-diplomat in child sex abuse probe

It is the latest case the Catholic Church has faced after repeated criticism for the way it has handled scandals over pedophile priests

Turkish pedophile given 'record 572-year sentence'

The court in the southern province of Adiyaman convicted the janitor after it was found he raped children and would sneak into some of the pupils' beds, Hurriyet daily says

Vatican revives pope's sexual abuse panel

'The newly-appointed members will add to the commission's global perspective in the protection of minors and vulnerable adults,' says US Cardinal Sean O'Malley

Mexico arrests suspected U.S. cult over triple murder

Mexico prosecutors announce the arrest of Orson William Black Jr. along with his 4 wives and 22 other people including an undetermined number of minors

1 in 14 Catholic priests accused of abuse in Australia

This data along with all we have heard over the past 4 years can only be interpreted for what it is: a massive failure on the part of the Catholic Church in Australia to protect children from abusers

French bishops beg forgiveness from pedophilia victims

We lacked mercy we did not listen to these victims in the way that they expected us to and we lacked the courage to take the measures that were needed says Archbishop of Paris Andre Vingt Trois

Indonesian police bust online pedophile ring

Officers catch the first suspect in a hotel room in Cisarua on Java island The man was with 7 boys and an 18 year old when he was arrested says senior police officer Agung Setya

Pope accepts resignation of Brazilian archbishop after abuse scandal

Aldo Di Cillo Pagotto steps down after being accused of welcoming into his diocese priests and seminarians expelled by other bishops over alleged pedophilia

UK pedophile gets life for Malaysia abuse

Relentlessly you preyed on the very young a judge tells Richard Huckle who victimized children while posing as a volunteer in Kuala Lumpur s Christian communities

Dissecting a pedophile: Why are some people attracted to children?

They look and act like you and me Except for one key difference: they’re sexually attracted to children

Pope under fire for meeting French cardinal accused of sex abuse cover-up

After meeting the pontiff French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin says he would be staying in his post with Francis blessing

Global child sex tourism rising, thwarting efforts to fight it – study

No region is untouched by this crime says a landmark report backed by the United Nations

Pope slams Europe over migrants, denounces pedophile priests

In the wake of this week s deadly attacks in Brussels Pope Francis slams terrorist acts committed by followers of some religions which profane the name of God and which use the holy name to justify their unprecedented violence

So many pedophile priests a 'disastrous coincidence' – Australian cardinal

Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell says it was a disastrous coincidence that 5 pedophile priests preyed on children in the Australian town where he was based

I have pope's 'full backing' says abuse inquiry cardinal

Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell tells an inquiry that abuse claims against Australia s most notorious pedophile priest were not of much interest to him

Church 'mucked up' with pedophile priests – Vatican finance chief

UPDATED Vatican finance chief Cardinal George Pell admits the Church made grave errors and is now trying to remedy those

Australian survivors of Catholic clergy abuse head to Rome

Cardinal George has always denied knowing of any child abuse occurring in Ballarat including by Gerald Ridsdale who preyed on dozens of children over two decades

El Salvador condemns bishop accused of raping girl

Well loved senior bishop Jesus Delgado who is also a prominent Church historian is condemned by government officials and a rights organization after being accused of repeatedly raping a girl in the 1980s

UN envoy calls on Japan to ban extreme child manga porn

A UN special envoy calls on Japan to ban cartoon images featuring extreme sexualized images of children after Tokyo last year fell into line with other G7 nations by criminalizing possession of child pornography

Ex-archbishop hospitalized hours before pedophilia trial – Vatican

Jozef Wesolowski will not attend the start of the unprecedented trial

Vatican holds first trial of cleric accused of pedophilia

The unprecedented trial will hear the case of former Polish archbishop Jozef Wesolowski who is accused of sexual abuse of minors

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Australian pleads not guilty in CDO child rape case

Gerard Peter Scully 51 puffed on a cigarette before calmly saying not guilty as the charges were read to him at a courtroom in Cagayan de Oro

Bishops who cover up sex abuse to face Church judgement

Pope Francis approves a recommendation from his newly created panel on clerical sex abuse to create a tribunal with powers to judge bishops who cover up such crimes

Vatican discord over Australia child abuse inquiry

Vatican finance chief George Pell is embroiled in a child abuse inquiry in his homeland

Vatican high-flyer denies trying to bribe abuse victim

Cardinal George Pell speaks out as abuse survivors demand he return to Australia to give evidence to a royal commission on the allegations

Victims of pedophile priests urge action from Pope

From the United States to Argentina Chile Mexico and other nations victims issue a letter made public in Mexico City telling the Argentine pontiff that words are not enough

Virtual Filipino kid leads to conviction of Australian sex predator

Australian man Scott Robert Hansen is the first person to be convicted in the online sting which snared 46 Australians

Pope tormented by sex abuse suicides

Pope Francis pledges to crack down on pedophilia as he meets with sex abuse survivors for the first time

'No one has done more than Church' vs sex abuse – Pope

Francis: The Catholic Church is perhaps the only public institution to have acted with transparency and responsibility No one else has done more

Horror in online child sex abuse village

In the village of Ibabao in Cebu behind closed doors parents directed their children for sex videos in front of webcams for paying pedophiles overseas

Int'l police probe PH child sex abuse ring

UPDATED Under Operation Endeavour which spanned a dozen nations 29 people have been arrested including 11 in the Philippines while three other ongoing probes have identified 733 suspects

Interpol awaits evidence from Dutch webcam child sex sting

A Dutch rights group says it wants to raise the alarm about webcam child sex tourism that has tens of thousands of victims in the Philippines alone

Virtual Filipina foils 1,000 webcam sex tourists

The pedophiles wanted to have sex with Sweetie a virtual 10 year old girl from the Philippines

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Updates on the legal front regarding Michael Jackson Chris Brown Robin Thicke

Calls for Australia's top Catholic to resign over sex abuse

Archbishop Cardinal George Pell fronted a Victorian state government inquiry into the criminal abuse of children admitting to cover ups by a predecessor