A six-year-old girl is tortured with hot knives in Papua New Guinea after being falsely accused of practising sorcery. She is believed to be the daughter of a woman who was burned alive in 2013.

An Australian police officer has described the case of girl, 11, who gave birth to a baby after being raped by her stepfather as the most disturbing she had ever worked on.

The torture of a six-year-old girl whose mother was accused of practising sorcery will be investigated by a special police taskforce, the Papua New Guinea Government says.

The girl tortured last week in Enga Province is the daughter of Leniata Kepari, a 20-year-old woman from the city of Mt Hagen who was accused of witchcraft and abducted by a mob in 2013 following ...