On Tuesday, a mother and stepfather who prostituted their young son on the internet were sentenced to over 12 years in prison by a court in Freiburg in the culmination of a sprawling, horrifying case.
Two men went on trial in Germany Friday accused of more than 400 counts of child sex abuse and running a paedophile ring in Berlin that targeted boys as young as six.
Police in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia, have warned parents in the town not to post pictures of their children online where they can be seen by anyone – sparking massive debate among social media users.
MPs from the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag (German parliament) want to force health insurance companies to pay for psychological counselling for potential paedophiles.
Eleven people arrested on Saturday for running an international paedophile ring have been released. The group is accused of distributing child porn as well as using a five-year-old girl to entice victims.
Germany's leading family planning group published articles justifying paedophilia during the 1980s and 90s, researchers said on Wednesday. Article headlines included “the misery of a forbidden love.”
Less than a week until the general election and Germany's Green Party leader faces part of his past he thought forgotten. The politician put his name to an election manifesto in 1981 pushing for paedophilia to be legalized.
A German politician has withdrawn her candidacy for next month's general election after an essay she wrote in favour of legalizing paedophilia was unearthed as part of an investigation.
A study by German scientists shows that it may be possible to identify paedophiles by scanning their brains as they look at pictures of adults and children.
Former supermodel Nadja Auermann has reportedly criticised the trend to underage models in the fashion world, saying the situation was creating a beauty ideal flirting with paedophilia.
Justice Minister Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger on Tuesday blasted a new TV show in which Stephanie zu Guttenberg, the wife of the Defence Minister, helps expose alleged child abusers via the internet.
Pupils at a progressive private boarding school in Hesse were regularly sexually abused, the <i>Frankfurter Rundschau</i> newspaper reported Saturday. The news follows a series of revelations about Catholic schools in Germany.
Investigators in Germany have for the first time uncovered a paedophilia network distributing images via mobile phones as police this week raided more than 400 homes across the country.
