A German court on Thursday sentenced
two men to more than a decade each in jail after they pleaded guilty to
sexually abusing dozens of children at a campsite over two decades.
Three suspects appeared in court in Germany Thursday to answer charges of child sex assault spanning decades that shocked the nation when it was uncovered in January.
A mother and stepfather charged with selling their young boy online for sex went on trial in southern Germany on Monday, in a case that police say is one of the most atrocious they have investigated.
A mother who allegedly sold her young son for sex has been arrested along with six other suspects in a case being described as the most serious child sex abuse investigation in the history of Baden-Württemberg.
In an unusual attempt to find a child abuse victim and arrest her abuser, police released pictures of the girl online. They did not expect success to come so quickly, but the child and her abuser were identified on the very same day.
German prosecutors said Thursday they had carried out nationwide raids against people believed to possess child pornography, targeting nearly 70 prime suspects.
Frankfurt prosecutors said on Thursday they had shut down a major online child pornography platform, used by more than 87,000 members to organize sexual abuse of children.
A father has been accused of raping his own two-year-old daughter with another man multiple times, allegedly filming parts of the abuse and broadcasting it through live chats online.
A man living near Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, faces years in prison after police say they discovered he had sexually abused more than 122 children online, across three countries.
A court in Bonn sentenced a Syrian father to 15 years prison after he threw his three children out of a first-floor window, reportedly because he disliked his wife's desire to enjoy the same freedoms as German women.
As the United States continues to debate gun control in the wake of the Orlando massacre, The Local speaks with a criminologist about how parenting practices rather than laws have made Germans less violent.
A judge ordered two Hamburg parents jailed on Tuesday after hearing how both were complicit in the abuse of their own children, including shooting pornography featuring their 13-year-old daughter.
About one third of German parents think an 'Ohrfeige', or smack across the head, is an appropriate part of child-rearing, according to an RTL survey released on Sunday.
A monk and former teacher at a boarding school in the Bavarian alps pleaded not guilty on Thursday at his trial for abusing two pupils and attempted abuse of two more.
Almost a quarter of German children are sometimes or regularly smacked by their parents, a study has found. Corporal punishment is more common and severe in working class families but the discrepancy between what children and their parents report is greater among privileged families.
The German Green party leadership has vowed to commission an independent investigation into allegations that it supported a group keen to legalize sex with children decades ago.
A German doctor whose citizenship has kept him out of jail could face prison after all for his role in a sect responsible for rampant child abuse in Chile.
Burglars got more than they bargained for when stealing computer hard drives and memory sticks from a house in eastern Germany. After discovering a horde of child pornography, they turned the suspected sex offender in to the police.
Police in Germany launched a nationwide raid targeting dozens of suspected child abusers, raiding the homes of around 40 people over the last few days, state officials announced on Tuesday.
A row has broken out about who will pay for a fund to pay out €100 million to German victims of child abuse in schools, state children's homes and church-run institutes.
Chile's Supreme Court late on Monday sentenced four Germans and a Chilean to prison terms of between five and 11 years for abusing children at a former secretive enclave of German settlers.
