A 14-year-old girl who became pregnant after she was raped has been denied an abortion by the Gujarat High Court in India. The victim, who has not been named, is more than 24 weeks pregnant, and is currently studying in high school in the Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat, in the west of the country. The petition for the girl’s abortion was …

Report says that police have investigated 645 alleged rapes in Britain’s schools over the past three years. The report reveals that there have been a total of 5,500 reported sex crimes in classrooms and playgrounds since 2012. Police believe this is just the tip of the iceberg. The vast majority of allegations, nearly 4,000, were physical sexual assaults …

MIAMI, FLA. — A Florida mother has been arrested after police say she beat her 8-year-old son and then killed a family pet right in front of him. According to the Miami Herald, Charlotte Wonjah, 26, remains in jail after making an appearance in court on New Year’s Day for child abuse and animal cruelty charges. Authorities say Wonjah beat her …

GENEVA:  UN rights chief Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Friday said France should have probed much earlier claims that its soldiers raped children in the Central African Republic between December 2013 and June 2014. Zeid said the delayed response was all the more difficult to comprehend since people other than the accused must have known of the abuse …

A Ohio grandmother will spend the rest of her life in jail after being found guilty of the rape of her own grandchildren. Edwina Louis, 53, will spend the rest of her life behind bars after she was sentenced to four consecutive life terms without parole. The judge in the case, William T. Marshall, said in all his 19 years experience on the bench, he …