The Australian singer Sia was compelled to say sorry following complaints that her video for "Elastic Heart," featuring Shia LaBeouf and 12-year-old Maggie Ziegler, comes across as vaguely pedophiliac (my word).The only thing for which Sia should perhaps apologize is some weird choreography in her latest single.
DC Entertainment has refused to give permission for a Superman logo to appear on a memorial statue of Jeffrey Baldwin, who died at the hands of abusive family members.
According to an article in the CBC, the five-year-old Toronto boy worshipped at the altar of Superman. Todd Boyce, an Ottawa man, moved by Jeffrey's tragic death, raised funds to create a bronze statue of the boy in his Superman costume.
Remember the dad who shoved his six-year-old off the skate ramp with a 13-foot drop? Well, karma caught up with him. Marcus Crossland claims his "bonehead decision" has impacted his entire family, forcing them to move and start afresh.
Monkey see, monkey do. That's what we say about children. And this cautionary video (courtesy of the Huffington Post), created by Australia's National Child Protection Clearing House (NAPCAN), will really drive the message home.
What does Amazon have to do with child abuse? You may be unpleasantly surprised. What's even worse than the fact that there is a how-to manual promoting the physical abuse of children, is the fact that the book is being willingly sold by the online retailer.
The simplicity of the scheme belies its genius. A sting operation by Amsterdam-based group, Terres des Hommes, uncovered more than a thousand adults trying to engage in sex acts with a ten-year-old Filipino girl.
The genius part? The girl was a computerized decoy set up by international children’s rights group to lure potential pedophiles from seventy-one countries during the ten-week project.
If you have a pet, you'll want to give him an appreciative pat after you read this. When an otherwise friendly and playful pooch began acting aggressively toward seven-month-old Finn's babysitter, his owners were concerned and mystified.
Talk about getting the last laugh. Children who were abused at the hands of their mother penned a most hateful obituary to mark her death. Published in a local Nevada newspaper, the far-from-fond farewell went viral.
But it begs the question: if you can't write anything nice, isn't it better to write no obit at all?
Who is this woman, and what in Gaga's name she doing aiming a gun at a child's head? An anti-domestic violence blog is trying to get at the truth behind the viral photo by mass-sharing the distressing image, which originally was posted on an Argentinian Facebook page.