Horrific Abuse on the Rise

Army criminal investigators were notified in 2020 that one of Zappey’s former students reported that he touched her inappropriately under her clothing between 2009 and 2010. Investigators interviewed four of Zappey’s former students who reported that Zappey placed his hand inside their underwear and touched their genitals. Other students and faculty members of Patch Elementary reported that Zappey frequently hugged students, had them sit on his lap, and touched their backs and stomachs under their clothes. The victims were between six and eight years old at the time of the sexual abuse.

2 women found guilty of physically abusing children aged 2-3, slapping, kicking, and dragging them by arms and legs; ‘They destroyed their souls,’ says one mother. In the CCTV footage, Binyamin and Yanko can be seen throwing children onto mattresses, often pulling them by their arms or legs to do so. They also slapped and kicked the children, who were all aged two to three.

The number of teachers arrested for child sex abuse is just the tip of the iceberg — much as it was for the Catholic Church prior to widespread exposure and investigation in the early 2000s," Christopher Rufo, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "The best available academic research, published by the Department of Education, suggests that nearly 10% of public school students suffer from physical abuse between kindergarten and twelfth grade."

Chief of the family and childhood prosecution said authorities had received a report about a female worker physically attacking a little girl inside a kindergarten. The attack had been filmed by another worker.

Heather Miller, 49, of Waukesha, who in September was charged in Waukesha County Circuit Court with child abuse - intentionally causing bodily harm and second-degree recklessly endangering safety, now faces three additional felony counts of physical abuse of a child — one for each victim — by a childcare provider.

Apodaca, 32, is accused of molesting four children and teenagers while working at Santo Niño and Gonzales Community School from 2018 to 2021.

Bryan, 29, hit and shook Robinson, verbally abused her on several occasions and failed to administer proper doses of medicine. Along with her colleague Katherine Wallis, 45, she dragged Robinson across her bedroom floor, making the elderly woman scream in pain. Wallis then threatened her with violence.

An investigation by the ombudsman found the woman was subject to verbal abuse and rough handling and was left unattended for long periods. Her daughters said she was often left fully lothed in bed, her room smelled of urine, and on one occasion faeces was found under her nails.

In 2014, four care home workers from the Hill croft nursing home in Slyne-with-Hest were convicted by Preston Crown Court of elderly abuse for a period of elderly abuse which saw them torment eight residents in the home who suffered from dementia. Darren Smith, Katie Cairns, Gemma Pearson and Carol Moore carried out a vindictive and heartless regime of abuse on the residents of Hill croft. The abuse was carried out by the four who believed they were safe from incrimination, with the knowledge that the dementia sufferers would not remember their actions on account of their conditions.

The family of an elderly woman, who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of three carers at a care home in Hull, have released shocking images of her injuries.

The camera was able to record an incident the day after installation. In the video, a nursing assistant was seen screaming at the resident — who has Alzheimer’s Disease — while changing her. The resident was also moved violently across the bed during the incident.

In 2020, two former nursing home employees of Marshall Manor Nursing Home in Guntersville, Alabama were indicted for allegedly abusing five nursing home residents. The charges included: • Sexual abuse • Public lewdness • Elder abuse • Harassment • Indecent exposure

A Kingston, Pennsylvania nursing home was fined $50,000 by the state’s Department of Health and Human Services after a nurse’s aide allegedly used excessive force against a female resident. The resident ended up with broken ribs and significant bruising.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said that Valentina Baghiu, of Borough Road in Tranmere, poked, threatened and grabbed the wrist of the victim who was frail and suffered from dementia … In the second video the carer is out of shot but appears to be sitting next to the resident and filming her. She is laughing and taunting the resident and begins to poke the resident who becomes very distressed. The resident says: “Get off me” and “I hate it, leave me alone.” She tries to get up and move away but the carer grabs her by the wrist and pulls her roughly back down into the seat. The resident cries out in pain. The carer then shows the resident a clenched fist.

A male caregiver at a Minneapolis care facility was sentenced to eight years in prison for the rape of a nursing home resident with Alzheimer’s disease.

"It immediately brought tears to my eyes. It's the most horrifying thing I've ever seen done to a human being – especially a child," Deputy Matt DeSilva – now with the Wake County Sheriff's Office – told jurors Wednesday morning on the eighth day of testimony in Jonathan Douglas Richardson's capital murder trial.

In 2013, sheriff’s deputies conducted a standard check on registered sex offender James Osborne and discovered an unregistered laptop in his possession … In the videos Koon can be seen carrying out sexual acts with young children who attended ABC Kidz Child Centre in Elyria, Ohio, some as young as one and two years old. Koon had been dating Osborne at the time of her arrest and through his encouragement, Koon agreed to engage in sexual encounters with four of the children she cared for

The independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) found more than 700 allegations of sexual abuse against hundreds of staff and individuals connected with just three homes in the borough. The true scale of abuse was likely to be far higher, it said.

Deputy Women, Family and Community Development Minister Datuk Siti Zailah Mohd Yusoff said the figure was recorded between January to December last year by the Welfare Department.

Three former childcare workers at a certified nursery school in Susono, Shizuoka Prefecture, were arrested on suspicion of employing violence against nursery school children. Similar incidents have also been uncovered one after another in other municipalities, and anxiety is spreading among parents.

Canessa George, 49, was released from prison in September after spending 10 years behind bars for abusing children as young as two at Little Ted's Nursery in Plymouth.

'They don't know what she does in the dark when she has power over these little children,' Cagney said … The girl, now 5, testified Fabiano had sexually molested her during nap time at the preschool. In a dramatic moment, the girl pointed to Fabiano, seated at the defense table, and identified her as her assailant.

The women allegedly slammed the little boy to the floor, pulled him up by his hair, threw him into a corner and slapped and punched him multiple times, according to a police report obtained by Fox 5 Atlanta

“Her abuse was proven. It was on video. There was extensive evidence of her abuse toward my child and other children at the school, and she was let off for this plea deal, all for nothing,” said Thompson. “That’s really upsetting that a known child abuser gets off so easily without any sort of real punishment. It doesn’t feel right.”

“Predatory paedophile” Nigel Leat captured on camera the attacks he carried out on five young girls over the course of five years at Hillside First School in Weston-super-Mare, Somerset.

Primary schools are the latest to become embroiled in the ‘rape culture’ storm after former pupils posted claims of sexual assaults. The website on which thousands of older children have reported harassment and abuse now has allegations involving pupils as young as five.

Ireland The Irish Times understands about 15 men have made statements alleging the former teacher repeatedly hit and punched children, picked them up by their ears and held them like that for several minutes before dropping them to the ground, beat them with implements including a golf club and banged heads against blackboards and walls.

He abused a pupil in 2016. He also abused an eight-year-old girl who lived near him in Cheshire between 2009 and 2011.

David Morris was sentenced to 16 years for 34 offences, including seven counts of raping a child under 13, sexual activity with a child, engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child, sexual communications with a child and taking, possessing and distributing indecent photographs of a child.

Thousands of children in French schools have been sexually abused by paedophile teachers, an international NGO has claimed, accusing the French education authorities of a decades-long "cover-up".

Nearly 1,300 Canadian children have been victims of sexual offences carried out — or alleged to have been carried out — by school employees in the last two decades, according to the Canadian Centre for Child Protection.

He is charged with Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child. Court documents show he emailed her parents requesting that she stay after school two days a week for tutoring so she could pass the STAAR test. The victim says he sat in a corner of the classroom and "would put her on his lap, straddling him, and bounce her up and down." She says he touched her genitals on several occasions

A teacher from a public school in Makati is under fire after he was accused of molesting his students.

At least 135 teachers and teachers’ aides have been arrested so far this year on child sex-related crimes in the U.S., ranging from child pornography to raping students.

Emily Marie Anderson, 35, was arrested in August 2021 and charged with sexual assault of a child, a second-degree felony. She was arrested again in December 2021 and charged with a felony charge of improper relationship between an educator and a student.

Fox 8 obtained the documents in the lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges Chloe Riviere, a former student at Lusher Charter School (now known as The Willow School), was groomed by a teacher at the school.

An elite kindergarten in Chaoyang District, east Beijing, is facing accusations that toddlers have been sexually molested, drugged and injected with unidentified medicine on its premises.

She claims that her daughter was tortured, her hands and neck were tied, her chest was burnt with a heated metal toy, and that she was “forced to eat earth, grass and faeces.”

Distressing footage shows a kindergarten teacher abusing deaf child for being naughty. The child is slammed against the floor and hit several times by his teacher.

Workers seen jerking and kicking an 86-year-old man on camera… "I was just speechless," his granddaughter, who wished to remain anonymous due to fear of retaliation, said. "I know it does happen, but I didn't think it would happen to my grandfather."

Lateshia Sherise Starling, 54, of San Pablo, is facing one count of felony elder abuse resulting in the death of Constantine Albert Canoun.

Nursery worker stamps on little boy and thrashes girl as she cleans up her own vomit in horrific videos circulated by South African crèche parents. The nursery worker was arrested after multiple reports of abuse.

An 88-year-old woman with dementia was physically and mentally abused with secret footage uncovering the constant abuse.

An age care worker in Australia has been captured in repeated abuse on an elderly patient including appearing to violently force-feed the patient with a spoon, sneeze on him, eat the patient’s food using his cutlery, flick his nose and pin the patient’s arms down when he resisted. The care worker was eventually charged with aggravated assault.

Care home staff in Birmingham have been caught making repeated threats and verbally abusing an elderly Alzheimer's patient.

Investigation reveals multiple incidents of abuse to mentally ill patients over a two month period.

A personal care worker in Georgia has been charged with abusing a 69-year-old woman in a wheelchair who was unable to defend herself to the physical abuse.

A Kazakh nursery worker was filmed torturing an 18-month-old girl by holding her down and smothering a crying child, verbally and physically abusing her in secret footage.

Distressing footage shows a nursery worker repeatedly striking a baby’s head, leaving her with a fractured skull and a blood clot.

A nursery assistant was caught on camera abusing toddlers over a period of time including smothering one with a blanket to force it to sleep.

Two Chinese Kindergarten Teachers are said to have abused children aged between three and six on 41 different occasions last month alone by cameras installed by police in Tuscany.

Parents grew concerned after their children came home covered in red needle marks. It was uncovered that the teachers had been repeatedly stabbing the children with paper clips for misbehaving.

Undercover footage has revealed repeated abuse from a Kindergarten teacher including shoving children, removing clothes and allegedly rubbing wasabi into children’s faces.

Surveillance footage of the school showed the boy being thrown onto his chair and dragged towards a table where he was having his meal. The child’s father noticed bruising on child’s body prior to the incident, suggesting multiple attacks took place.

A nanny has been caught manhandling an eight-month old, hitting the child on the back of her head, and throwing the child on the floor several times.

A child’s mother only discovered the abuse after discovering her child had marks and injuries on her face, and a chunk of hair missing from her head.

A child suffered severe injuries after staff aggressively broke his arm and dragged him across the floor

Two nursery workers are alleged to have physically assaulted and aggressively manhandled toddlers. They are also accused of encouraging older children to 'sexually' abuse younger ones.

There was 23,428 claims of neglect and physical and sexual abuse by carers working in the homes of the elderly in 2015, 2016, and 2017.

Staffed neglected an aged care resident repeatedly that they had to have an amputation

A 56-year-old aged care nurse has pleaded guilty to repeatedly assaulting seven patients, admitting to pushing a pillow on the face of a dementia patient.

Four workers at a nursery in London were arrested on suspicion of child cruelty after a two-year-old was allegedly attacked.

A nursery worker in Wales was charged with repeated offences, including two of sexual assault by penetration and two of sexual assault by touching. She was also charged with making, possessing and distributing indecent images of children from The Nursery.

A shocking case emerged in 2017 surrounding a 28-year-old nursery worker in England, who admitted to repeated sexual abuse of 18 children at two schools within the area where he worked.

Day care workers intentionally terrify children at a nursery by wearing scary masks to scare and taunt them.

Care workers in Wales were charged in 2022 for dragging one elderly woman off a sofa by her hair, kneeling on her stomach and banging her head on the floor. A judge said there was a culture at the care home where a blind eye was turned to the way residents were being treated.

A care worker has been charged with abusing and slapping a 101-year-old dementia patient/ The carer was caught on camera manhandling the elderly woman and slapping her hands and arms.

A care worker assaulted the pensioner and was beaten with a shoe and dragged off his bed. Family members noticed bruising on the man's body (suggesting previous attacks) and decided to set up a secret camera.

A nursery manager was arrested after repeated abuse to children including force fed babies in her care until they were sick and then made them eat their own vomit, put blankets over the faces of children and violently shook a baby.

Elderly care patient was filmed being drag-lifted into her bed - when lifting equipment should have been used - and being denied use of a toilet.

Israeli retirement home worker charged with rape of 90-year-old resident. The rape was only discovered after doctors found injuries on a senior citizen's genitalia.

Four daycare workers in Tennessee were arrested for allegedly drugging children sleeping medication without their parents’ consent

Former day care workers at Air Force base are accused of repeated abuse including spraying children in the face with cleaning liquid, forcing children to fight and kicking one child into a wall.

Employee at an aged care facility in Western Australia was charged with strangling an aged care resident to death.

A nursery worker in the Netherlands admitted to molesting dozens of nursery infants in one of the country's worst cases of child sexual abuse to date.

A nursery worker was filmed allegedly hitting a sleeping young boy with nursery objects before picking him up and dropping him.

Three care home workers are standing trial in Germany accused of killing two elderly residents, attempting to murder another, and sexually abusing many more "out of boredom" at a care home in Germany.

A New Zealand childcare worker has been accused of repeated abuse over a 6 year span including force feeding children, washing their mouths out with soap and putting tape across the mouth of another

Three teachers have been fired after they were accused of force-fed solid food to children as young as one-year-old then held their mouths shut as they cried.

A nursery owner failed to tell parents after she dropped a child on his head and fractured his skull.

An US nurse who was supposed to be looking after an incapacitated woman in a coma at a long-term health care facility has been charged with raping her, weeks after the patient gave birth.

Three US women have been charged with forcing dementia patients in an elderly care facility to fight each other

Secret Investigation revealed that the Great Grandmother cried out for help hundreds of times in less than an hour, including making 45 requests to be taken to the toilet.

Three Israeli childcare workers have been accused of constant abuse including holding nursery children forcefully, pulling their arms and legs, dragging them, pulling them by their ears, and throwing them forcefully onto mattresses

A nursery worker was spared jail time for force-feeding a toddler until she was sick and left another child to lie in his own urine for hours.

A teenage nursery worked raped and sexually assaulted young children at a creche in the U.K.

A daycare manager in Israel tied up toddlers, smothered them with blankets, physically assaulted them, and force-fed one child his own vomit

A health care assistant in Ireland has been charged with violently raping an elderly woman in her nursing home bed during the Covid-19 lock-down.

A female nursery worker sexually abused children in her care and took photos of them indecently

A nursery nurse stood on children’s toes in her care; slapped them with elastic bands, sprayed them with a hose, forced them to eat spicy food and made the infants fight each other

We identified 28 deaths resulting from aggression between nursing home residents in Australia over the 14-year study period. This is within around 3,000 deaths that occurred from non-natural causes.

A nursing home in Hawarden, Iowa, was sued for negligence after a 58-year-old woman died in 2019. The woman’s estate alleges that staff members failed to help her after a serious fall which contributed to her death … According to the reports, nursing home staff members didn’t even notify the woman’s family until over a month after the incident, and one of the staff members allegedly believed the woman was faking that she was in pain.

The number of enquiries carried out in care homes in Wolverhampton increased by 55 per cent compared to the previous year, when there were 100. Abuse inquiries increased by 10 in Dudley and Walsall … Across England, the number of cases rose by six per cent over the same period, climbing to 47,535

After hundreds of 911 calls were made about suspected nursing home abuse, a criminal investigation is underway against an assisted living facility in Watertown, Massachusetts. “It was horrific. She had a huge gash on her forehead and a lump the size of a golf ball, her whole face was bruised.” – Daughter of Massachusetts nursing home resident

A nursing home has agreed to pay $1.3 million to the family of Will Barr, who was beaten to death by his roommate. This roommate, Gerald Bradford, had a violent criminal background, had threatened nursing home staff and other residents, and had warned the staff that he would kill Barr if he was not moved to another room.

Lawyer Sarah Saldmann told FranceInfo radio on Sunday that she had received "dozens of complaints" by relatives of people living in elderly care facilities run by Korian. She intends to bring a group lawsuit in April, bringing together the claims of numerous individual plaintiffs.

Officers rescued two elderly people who had been kept in a “house of horrors” by a Cuban-German couple who ran a private care home in Chiclana de la Frontera, near Cadiz in southern Spain, the Guardia Civil said in a statement.

Based on statements from a whistleblower and other documents, the paper says several people living in the Leeuwenhoek home, which looks after dementia patients, were verbally and physically abused.

In one of the most prominent murder trials in Germany, a court in 2019 sentenced a nurse, Niels H.*, to life in prison for killing 85 patients in his care.

Staff at Newton House care home are said to have screamed at an elderly lady to get back into her room, left her “rolling in bed in agony” with a leg ulcer and allowed her to go unwashed for almost two weeks.