child abuse

A South Carolina mother accused of killing her three-year-old foster child has been convicted of homicide by child abuse.

It is a heartbreaking trend: in households where kids are abused, animals are often getting hurt, as well. State agencies are collaborating to put a stop to it using cross-over reporting. Since April is both Child Abuse Awareness Month and Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Month, state leaders came together Friday to discuss efforts in both areas. The reason a…

Officials say in households where children are being abused, animals are often being harmed too. Take a look into what agencies are doing to try and stop the abuse.

Critics say employing such algorithms gives a program powered by data mostly collected about poor people an outsized role in deciding families’ fates.

A Texas judge is hearing a case Friday on whether to prevent state officials from investigating reports of transgender youth receiving gender confirming care as child abuse.

Two day care workers in Rancho Cucamonga were arrested after a child suffered a skull fracture, and the two allegedly concealed the injury from the child’s mother, authorities said.

Police allege the mother of a 14-year-old New Jersey girl, whose disappearance drew national attention, brutally abused her for years and forced her to skip school and beg for money on the streets.

A North Carolina woman has been charged with child abuse after the couple she works for caught her restraining their son on their nanny cam.

Hilton condemned a “systemwide lack of transparency and accountability” in the troubled teen industry and urged support for new regulations.

Jordan Cheyenne and her 8-year-old had just found out their dog had a potentially deadly illness; then she turned the camera on.

A Florida woman is charged with murder stemming from a decades-old shaken baby case

A Pomfret couple is facing child abuse charges. Jacqueline Barbour, 34, and Jason Carroll, 34, are charged with cruelty and risk of injury to a minor. The investigation began in January 2020 when staff at Connecticut Children’s Medical Center reached out about a 9-year-old girl who was a patient at the hospital. Hospital staff diagnosed her with chronic severe malnutrition…

Officials say reports to the DCF child abuse and neglect care line went down more than 20% when schools closed or went remote. Now as schools reopen, reports are back up.

An Associated Press analysis has found that reports of child abuse plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic, as children are out of the public eye and away from usual reporters of welfare problems

A man has been arrested after a 10-year-old boy was found beaten and unconscious inside his New York City apartment. Police were called to the apartment at 260 West 131st Street in Harlem on Saturday and responding officers found family members performing CPR on Ayden Wolfe. The young boy had cuts and bruises all over his body, according to law…

A trial has been postponed until April for a former Franciscan friar accused of molesting students in the 1990s at a Catholic school in Mississippi.

A Florida waitress noticed an 11-year-old boy with bruises and thought something was wrong. Orlando police say her quick actions may have saved the boy from more danger.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been hit with several lawsuits for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state’s end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue

In a candid Instagram post, Jacob Roloff claims he was molested by a former “Little People, Big World” field producer.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said there needs to be a “sense of urgency” in working toward the end of child labor globally.