#child abuse

A 37-year-old was sentenced to five years in prison for sexually abusing a minor at Paphos district court on Friday. The sentence was imposed after the man had admitted to ...

Paphos police are investigating a complaint regarding the alleged kidnapping and attempted abuse of a 12-year-old. The girl’s family filed a complaint with the police that an unknown person ...

One in five children fall victim to abuse and one in six are facing mental problems, the House human rights committee heard on Monday. Oelmek’s representative Christos Tziortas said “...

Commissioner for the Protection of Children’s Rights, Despo Michaelidou, has demanded explanations regarding a child abuse case recently uncovered in Larnaca, where five children were reportedly subjected to years ...

Social welfare service workers staged a two-hour work stoppage on Thursday, from 11.30am till 1.30pm, to protest the “targeting of social welfare service workers” following the alleged abuse case of ...

Fellow villagers had turned to the Social Welfare Services to report the alleged abuse of five children living in a livestock facilty Dromolaxia, Larnaca before the case was made public, ...

Two individuals, a 48-year-old man and a 41-year-old woman, were referred on Friday for trial before the Larnaca criminal court, which will convene on May 5, as suspects in a case ...

The forensic medical services reported on Tuesday that no external injuries were found during Monday’s examination of the 19-month-old child suspected of being violently shaken by a nursery teacher ...

A nursery teacher in Nicosia has been suspended after a video surfaced in local media, allegedly showing her threatening to throw a child out of a window. The disturbing footage ...

Kudos to Depa MP Michalis Yiakoumi who is advocating harsher sentences for child predators. Although Cyprus’ criminal code enshrines life sentences as the maximum penalty for a number of sexual ...

New Zealand Prime Minister Christopher Luxon expressed regret on Wednesday after a public enquiry found some 200,000 children, young people and vulnerable adults were abused in state and religious care over ...

A retired Roman Catholic bishop appeared in court in remote Western Australia on Thursday on charges of sexual offences against children, including two counts of rape. The charges against Christopher ...

A 26-year-old man was sentenced to 12 years in prison on Monday after having been found guilty of sexually abusing a child. The ruling was handed down at the Larnaca Criminal ...

A special police team has been set up to investigate reports of a babysitter abusing three infants in Nicosia in the span of a year, it emerged on Monday. Parents ...

A disturbing a case of child neglect and abuse is pending trial on Thursday by the Larnaca criminal court. Particulars of the case, reported by Philenews involve accusations of physical ...

Pope Francis on Wednesday said the Catholic Church needs a “humble and ongoing purification” to deal with the “anguished cries” of victims of clerical sexual abuse ahead of an expected ...

A huge billboard raising awareness of sexual abuse by clergymen was put up overnight in Lisbon, just hours before Pope Francis was due to arrive in the Portuguese capital for ...

Hope for Children group doing a sterling job of supporting abused minors Cyprus, where at least one in four children is believed to have been sexually abused, needs to invest ...

Sex education needs to have a place in teaching as part of a broader government strategy to protect children from sexual abuse, children’s rights commissioner Despo Michaelidou said on ...

The Supreme Court has accepted the appeal of the attorney-general, who challenged a ruling for a court of first instance to release on parole a woman facing a multitude of ...

The Vatican panel due to produce annual reports on child abuse prevention within the Catholic Church will not deliver its first full review until 2024, its secretary said on Friday. The ...

Paphos criminal court on Wednesday found a man guilty of raping the underage daughter of his partner. The next hearing was set on September 20 this year for plea in mitigation ...

Domestic violence involving children increased during the pandemic By Andreas Kapardis and Markella Bitsiouni According to the Convention on the Rights of the Child states must recognise that the “child, ...

On the occasion of World Day for the Prevention of Child Abuse, the advisory committee against family violence on Friday called for amendments to family law in Cyprus to reflect ...