Leaders of a religious movement in Finland have admitted that cases of child abuse within its ranks have not been handled properly. Read the full story

A Swedish mother who filmed her children in the bath in an attempt to prove that they had been abused by their father, has been arrested on child pornography charges and ordered to hand the two youngsters over to her ex. Read the full story

A 47 year-old American man has been arrested accused of sexually abusing children in several countries — including Iceland. Read the full story

A Danish officer says the military has been sitting on pictures showing the abuse of Afghani prisoners by American soldiers for five years. According to reports on the information provided to the Parliamentary Foreign Policy Committee by defence minister Gitte Lillelund-Bech, the senior army official said he viewed the “Abu Ghraib-like” images on a CD in 2005. Read the full story

Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland’s Prime Minister, says she has considered leaving the state church. This comment comes in the wake of a sexual abuse scandal hitting Iceland’s state church. Read the full story

The Norwegian Roman Catholic Church has admitted that a Trondheim bishop has resigned after pleading guilty to abusing an altar boy. Read the full story

Swedish officials have launched an indictment against a couple from Stockholm for using what they claim to be torture-like methods for maintaining discipline. Read the full story

A couple was forced to endure an ‘orgy of violence’ on the Danish island of Mors as local drug addicts forced them to dig their own graves, threatened them with drug overdoses and physically abused them while in capture. Read the full story

Finland is considering giving political asylum to former prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, which is due to be closed down by the United States. The base will be shut down and about 40 prisoners being held in Guantanamo without trial will be sent to different countries, mostly in Europe, that will grant political asylum. Read the full story