Hanoi int'l kindergarten teachers fired for locking child in closet

The Ministry of Public Security will directly assist local police in preventing and handling sexual abuse of children, a senior official says.

Vietnam’s acceptance of parents’ right to exercise disciplinary violence has swept under the carpet the trauma many children suffer.

A court in the northern province of Hai Duong sentenced a man to 10 years in jail on Friday for raping a 12-year-old girl.

A Vietnamese teacher faces charges of molesting girls at his secondary school, notwithstanding his claims of “fatherly love.”

A man has been arrested in the Mekong Delta province of An Giang for allegedly molesting six seven-year-old girls at a primary school.

Out of 1,600 cases of child abuse last year, 80 percent involved sexual assault, according to the Ministry of Public Security.

The Hanoi police have arrested a man who was caught on camera trying to molest an 11-year-old girl in an empty alley.

A teacher in Da Nang teaches her students, both girls and boys, how to protect themselves from sexual harassment.

Residents of the Saigon apartment building where a child was molested recently are wearing T-shirts calling out the crime. 

A former primary school teacher in Da Nang will spend the rest of his life in jail for raping third-grade girls.

Sexual abuse of children is far more prevalent than thought, and Vietnamese citizens want strong counter measures as soon as possible.

Former Vatican treasurer Cardinal George Pell was sentenced to six years in jail on Wednesday by an Australian court for sexually abusing two choir boys in the 1990s.

Thousands of children trafficked to Britain from Vietnam are being abused and exploited while traveling through Europe.