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Repeat Rapist Freed After 8 Years Under Sentence Merger, Set to Live in Victim’s City

The case exposes how sentence-merging rules with remissions can shorten long prison terms despite high-risk histories.

Philip Young Admits All 56 Charges After Adding Child Image Offences

Buenos Aires Court Sets Precedent, Jails Inmate 20 Years for Non-Contact Sexual Abuse

Alwar Teen’s Abduction-Rape, Surat Molestation Cases Spur Arrests, Protests, POCSO Probes

Martiño Ramos Soto Extradited From Cuba and Jailed in Madrid

Palma Man Gets 13½ Years for Raping and Impregnating 10-Year-Old Stepdaughter

Nirmal Police Arrest Two in Alleged Abduction, Sedation and Assault of Minor Girls

Odisha Courts Issue Death Sentence in Child Assault Case and Life Terms in 2021 Sambalpur Murder

Thoothukudi Rape-Murder: Police Arrest History-Sheeter Traced Through CCTV and Stolen Bike

Beed Child Sexual Assault Cases: One Arrest as Police Track Two Suspects

Argentina Arrests Three Men in Child Sex-Abuse Cases in Misiones, Chaco and Buenos Aires

Father Accused of Killing 8-Year-Old Son Found Dead in Melchor Romero Prison Cell

SIT Formed in Bhopal Class 11 Rape-Blackmail Case as Probe Widens

Maharashtra Police Pursue Separate Child Sexual Offence Cases in Beed, Nagpur and Bhiwandi

Six Relatives Jailed for 97 Years Over Years-Long Abuse of West Sussex Girl

Four Arrested After Abduction, Gang-Rape of 14-Year-Old in Madhya Pradesh

Meerut Teen Dies After Alleged Rape as Police Arrest Accused, Book Family Under POCSO

Adult Remanded, Juveniles Held in Two Child Assault Cases in Odisha’s Nayagarh

Teen Allegedly Assaulted in Shuttered Hooghly Factory as Police Hold Two, Hunt Others

Courts Deliver Harsh Sentences in Child Sex Cases as UP, Mumbai Police Report New Arrests