A total of 44 children and young people aged under 18 died as a result of abuse in Japan in fiscal 2014, up eight from the previous year, with more than half killed by their mothers, a government panel survey showed Friday. Of the ...
Of the 24,511, psychological mistreatment comprised nearly 70 percent, National Police Agency data showed Thursday.
As reported cases of child abuse grow, so too must the government response.
Incidents of reported child abuse in Japan reached a record high in fiscal 2015, with the number of cases handled by welfare officials surpassing 100,000.
The Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry will provide funding to help municipalities across Japan set up support centers for families that have trouble raising children, sources said. The child-rearing support centers will deal with families for which it is deemed necessary for municipalities to ...
Prosecutors on Friday demanded an indefinite prison term for a former male babysitter accused of murdering a 2-year-old boy in Fujimi, Saitama Prefecture, in March 2014. During closing statements, prosecutors told Yokoyama District Court that the defendant, Yuji Motte, 28, had a strong intent ...
When police showed up at Lee Kaplan’s home in the Philadelphia suburbs last week, they found a dozen girls living there, the eldest of whom was an 18-year-old who authorities say had been “gifted” to him by her parents as repayment for a debt. ...
Thirty-five of Japan’s 47 core cities with populations of at least 200,000 are cautious about setting up consultation centers specialized in child abuse, citing financial constraints and lack of trained personnel, according to a Jiji Press survey. Meanwhile, 15 of Tokyo’s 23 wards are ...
A Turkish man has gone on trial in southern Turkey charged with sexually assaulting at least eight Syrian children at the refugee camp where he was working, reports and official sources said on Thursday. Turkey’s emergencies agency AFAD, which is responsible for the camp, ...
Technology is transforming the global sex trade and making it easier than ever for travelers to prey on children, a landmark study on pedophiles warned Thursday. The U.N.-backed report shines a light on the rampant spread of child sex tourism, a scourge that touches ...
The trial of a Georgia man accused of intentionally leaving his toddler son in a hot SUV to die will be moved, the judge said Monday, granting a defense request to hold it elsewhere because pretrial publicity has caused potential jurors to form strong ...
Whenever a fatal child abuse case makes headlines, child consultation centers often come under fire for failing to take steps to prevent the death. The centers, however, are having increasing difficulty handling the surging number of calls by people alerting them to suspected child ...
