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Former boarding-school maths teacher John McKno, 74, was serving 14 years for sexually abusing five boys. He choked to death on breakfast at HMP Norwich. An inquest recorded cardiac failure…

James Fairbanks, an Omaha public-school employee, confessed to shooting twice-convicted child sex offender Mattieo Condoluci. He pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 40 to 70 years.

Richard Huckle, one of Britain's worst child-sex offenders, was stabbed to death in his Full Sutton cell. An inquest later examined how a high-risk prisoner was left that exposed.

The FBI warned parents about child sextortion. By 2025 NCMEC logged more than 50,000 financial-sextortion reports a year — 137 a day — mostly targeting teen boys.

German police dismantled Elysium, a darknet forum with 87,000 members trading child-abuse material. Operators were jailed in 2019. Kidflix, with nearly two million users, was taken down in 2025.