A former basketball coach who groomed and abused young boys in Waterford has lost an appeal against his prison sentence.

A paedophile blackmailed young internet victims into extreme and degrading sexual and physical acts, forcing one to lick toilet seats and eat dog food.

Eight suspected members of an online paedophile network have been arrested in what German police described as one of the most serious child sex abuse cases they have ever investigated.

A brawl erupted at a shopping centre after a vigilante group of "paedophile hunters" confronted a man suspected of grooming a 14-year-old girl.

A violent paedophile who made a "hidey hole" in his home to conceal a girl he was abusing has been jailed for 27 years for a string of serious sex offences.

Twenty men have been arrested in an inquiry into a paedophile network in Norway, in the country's largest abuse case to date.

A primary school teacher who secretly filmed his pupils getting undressed was caught when police investigated his paedophile father.

An Australian who repeatedly raped his daughter and organised strangers to abuse her while he watched was jailed for 22-and-a-half years yesterday, telling police “it was fun while it lasted”.

Britain's worst paedophile planned to "mould" one of his victims into his "perfect wife" - so he could get away with abusing more children, a court heard.

Police are excavating the former home of a paedophile couple who knew serial killers Fred and Rose West.

A woman jailed for three-and-a-half years for fatally stabbing a convicted paedophile has had her sentence more than doubled.

Disgraced priest Fr Brendan Smyth penned an angry letter from jail denying he had damaged the Catholic Church, an inquiry has heard.

Gardaí have confirmed they were called out to a public order incident in south Dublin after a convicted paedophile was set upon by a group of people.

A gang of paedophiles who raped and abused babies, toddlers, and children aged under five in attacks that were streamed over the internet are facing lengthy prison sentences.

Pope Francis has accepted the resignation of a US bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a priest suspected of child abuse, in the first known case of a pope cracking down on a bishop involved in a paedophile cover-up.

A child sex abuse victim has claimed he was molested by “very powerful people” at several key locations connected to an alleged VIP paedophile ring in the UK.

A paedophile hoarding thousands of images of child sex abuse has been jailed for three years after leaving his camera’s memory card on a bus.

A former girlfriend of paedophile rocker Ian Watkins has been cleared of possessing indecent images of children.

The fact that a dozen paedophile priests were active in Dublin in the 1970s has been described by the city’s Catholic Archbishop Diarmuid Martin as a tragedy.

Dave Lee Travis knew that Jimmy Savile liked young girls and thought “good luck to him”, a jury has been told.