A woman charged in a chronic child neglect case, where court officials called the home “a house of horrors,” entered a plea ...

An Oldham County mother has filed a lawsuit against Kentucky child welfare officials, alleging they violated state open ...

Trigger Warning: This article mentions disturbing details about child abuse. Florida saw a significant number of child abuse ...

Emergency responders deemed Nickolas and Alie Shearer's apartment "not livable for children" after being called to the home ...

CHARLESTON – A federal audit of West Virginia’s child welfare system during former Gov. Jim Justice’s final year in office found that 91% of 100 reviewed reports did not follow requirements for child ...

A Louisiana couple has been arrested on suspicions of neglect and cruelty to a minor after the death of their severely ...

The Child Law Project, which reports on child protection proceedings, has published 77 new case reports to detail the kinds ...

WASHINGTON -- Rates of physical and sexual abuse of children have declined over the last 20 years, but for reasons not fully understood, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine. Yet, reports ...

Both received identical sentences: 360 days in jail, with credit for the two days already served, and 18 months of supervised ...

A mother and father in Union, South Carolina, have been arrested after their 5-month-old son died, with authorities allegedly believing that they neglected and abused the infant leading up to his ...

Investigations of child abuse and neglect have plunged 18% in Michigan since 2017, a decrease some child welfare advocates contend isn't because there's less abuse but because the state's centralized ...