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<p>After a long court battle, judges have finally come to the decision that if doctors think it is best to remove a child from life support they can do so. Even if the decision goes against the parents’ wishes.</p> <p>The ruling comes after parents of baby Charlie campaigned to have him kept on life support so they could then have a procedure for his potential treatment by US doctors.</p> <p>However, doctors, nurses and a neurologist from Great Ormond Street hospital were against the decision to do so. They believed that the treatment would only have a very short, temporary cure to Charlie’s condition: mitochondrial disease. It causes muscle weakness and brain damage.</p> <p> </p> <p>For the first time in England, a deceased man was charged with 10 child sexual abuse related offences.</p> <p>Darren Turk took his own life during the trial – but it continued after his death and lead to his conviction.</p> <p>However, his family were not happy with the decision to do so. Three judges said that the verdicts were wrongfully returned and they have since been annulled.</p> <p>Turk was the head of care at boarding school at the time when the offences.</p> <p> </p> <p>More than 20,000 people have been taken to court because they failed to ensure their child was at school.</p> <p>Parents who took their children out for school without permission during term time were subject to fines, community sentence and even prison according to official Ministry of Justice figures.</p> <p>There has been a steady increase in the number of prosecutions since 2013 when legislation was implemented to crack down on parents pulling out children from school for holidays.</p> <p>Holiday can now only be granted by headteachers for exceptional circumcentres such as funerals and bereavement.</p> <p>Pulling children out of school is tempting for parents as ticket and holiday prices are much cheaper compared to the inflated prices of holiday date.</p> <p> </p> <p>A court ruling has ruled to allow people to continue to pose as children online to catch child sexual predators.</p> <p>2 men that were caught by a vigintile group put together a case against them, stating that they should be regulated and that they ‘diminished the integrity of the court process”.</p> <p>However, the judge dismissed that case and said there were no legal requirements.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p> </p>