Toddler shot in head with airgun.
He was adopted by Mr Doerflein after his mother rejected him at birth.
Kidnappers who seized a three-year-old UK girl in Nigeria have threatened to kill her unless her father agrees to take her place, her mother says.
A man has been charged with indecent assault following the rescue of a South African boy who had allegedly been held captive in a dark room for 13 years. The boy, known as Bongani, is said to be traumatised and recoils from bright lights. He was allegedly seized when he was just five years old.
A couple kills a three-year-old boy they were planning to adopt when he fails to meet their expectations of ready-made family life.
Boys, 12 and 16, face charges in connection with small fires.
The grandmother of a five-year-old girl who was killed in an attack by a pit bull terrier-type dog has been charged with her manslaughter.
Twins, who were conceived normally, come to the attention of scientists because one was born with sexually ambiguous genitalia. The child was discovered to be a hermaphrodite, and has both ovarian and testicular tissue, while the other child is anatomically male.
The cry went up the moment the polio vaccination team was spotted in the little village of Bareilly, India: "Hide your children!"
A 35-year-old unemployed single mother of three whildren who suffers from severe myopia appeals to the court after a doctor insists that she go ahead with the birth of her fourth child despite warnings from ophthalmologists that she could go blind.
Two children are abused by their football coach.
The hunt for a child-killer.
The hunt for a child-killer.
