Poverty or substance abuse could explain a new report showing the number of Northeast Michigan children living in families investigated for abuse or neglect skyrocketed between 2010 and 2020.
Montgomery County Children Services approved a new agreement last week that details how child abuse should be reported and investigated.
Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams announced that Christopher O’Sullivan, 32, of Philadelphia, PA, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, 10 years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $5,200 restitution for crimes stemming from his sexual exploitation of a student via text message.
Under-18s who want nude pictures or videos of themselves removed from the internet can now report the images through an online tool.
As multiple state agencies investigate allegations of child abuse at Wildwood Early Education Center, an attorney representing the parents of five special-needs children told The Sun this week that complaints about the teacher in question have been disregarded by school officials for over a decade.
I have a near perfect score – only this is the last place anyone would want to have a high score. I’m talking about my Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) score.
Aaron Isaac received 12 months probation on Wednesday, while his wife was sentenced earlier this year to more than 11 years behind bars.
Since 1992, the Children’s Advocacy Center of Collin County has been serving children and families who are victims of child abuse.
A Kansas City, Kansas, woman is facing four counts of child abuse involving children in her care at a Johnson County day care.
A Salisbury woman is behind bars on numerous child sex abuse charges after it was learned she was taking inappropriate photographs of children in her care.
A mother and her boyfriend are facing murder and child abuse charges in the death of a 6-year-old from Henry County, according to officials.
Our collective care and concern for the health and well-being of our nation’s children is one thing that many of us can agree upon. We want what is best for children so they can grow and develop to their full potential.
A foster mother has told a child abuse trial that when she took in one of the male complainants into her home he didn’t know how to use a knife and fork and had almost no teeth.
Officials in the Tennessee Department of Children's Services say local law enforcement, the FBI and other federal authorities have been alerted after an unaccompanied migrant child this month reported being abused at a Chattanooga shelter
As Kentucky emerges from the isolation and stress of the COVID-19 pandemic, the impact on mental health and domestic violence is rising to the surface.
A Marion man, who fled Iowa after police opened an investigation, was charged Wednesday in the sexual abuse of a child between 2018 and March of this year.
A Sherman County man faces 11 counts of sexual assault, child abuse and incest, while a woman is charged with six counts of aiding and abetting.
The process is likely to take a year and includes state and county child protection staff, plus foster family groups and residential treatment centers.
A Bristol-based company is being criticised for hosting a website known for sharing child-sex-abuse material.
A JUDGE has dismissed a pervert’s claim he had no sexual interest in children despite being caught with more than 5,000 indecent images stored on his phone and laptop.
Facebook's new initiative called 'Report it, don't share it' aims to encourage users to report content related to child abuse, instead of sharing it.
Rainbow House is an emergency shelter and Child Advocacy Center (CAC) located in Columbia that serves 11 counties in Missouri.
A man from North Yorkshire has been jailed for 21 years after being found guilty of sexually abusing a toddler between December 2018 and March 2020.
A school in Wilmington is at the center of a state investigation after several parents have come forward claiming their children have come home with bruises.
Social services revealed a major jump in the number of child protection registrations.
It is one of the lowest proportions in the county in nearly a decade.
A South Australian grandfather has been jailed after he continuously inappropriately touched his granddaughter and showed her pornography.
A man is being charged with assault and child abuse after he allegedly threatened a 12-year-old boy and man known to him at Village Pantry in Mangilao.
Criticising colleagues who “refuse to believe there is a shared responsibility in this respect”, Reinhard Marx said the Church is at “a dead end”.
A woman is charged with abusing children after video at a Johnson County, Kansas, day care revealed about 170 instances of abuse of children under the age of 1.
Rather than ending up in a sterile and unfriendly environment, children who have suffered abuse or trauma on the coast find themselves at the Carousel Center — a nationally accredited child advocacy center.
Jayson Juttner was arrested by Manchester police and accused of harassing 2 teens for explicit images; he was arrested in Merrimack in 2019.
Child neglect, abuse and sexual exploitation is an ongoing problem all over the country.
Most states have state-administered systems that avoid many of the inconsistencies that have plagued NC child protective services.
The coronavirus pandemic has had an unprecedented and profound effect on human rights, fuelling racism and child abuse, the European Union (EU)'s rights agency said Thursday in its annual report.
A trial has been scheduled for an unlicensed babysitter accused of intentionally abusing a child in her care.
A music teacher who collected child abuse pictures over a period of 15 years has been spared jail so he can “kick this dreadful habit”.
AN 80-YEAR-OLD man has been sent to prison for nine years for non-recent child abuse offences against two girls.
A convicted child molester set free in Los Angeles County three years ago was arrested for sexually abusing two more kids.
The superintendent of the Shoreline Unified School District, a 40-year education veteran in Marin and Sonoma counties, was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of child molestation.
A Florida man faces some serious felony charges after he decided to throw a 2-month-old baby at a police officer following a high-speed car chase.
Cape May County Prosecutor Jeffrey H. Sutherland and Chief Christopher Leusner, of the Middle Township Police Department, announced the arrest of 42-year-old Dante Norton and 37-year-old Andria Norton June 8, both of whom are from Middle Township.
The man who made false claims of a VIP child abuse ring and received compensation for his lies has today been ordered to pay £23,960.
While at the Child Advocacy Center the day after his son, Joe Clyde, was reported missing, Joseph Daniels put bunny ears behind his stepson’s head and asked, “How’s that for child abuse?”.
Jury selection is set to begin in a horrific child abuse case that stunned an Oklahoma community.
Cocos (Keeling) Islands suffix is one of the most commonly used top-level domains for hosting child abuse material, researchers say.
A former Olympic equestrian and horse trainer was arrested in Oregon Monday on charges of sexually abusing a teenage girl.
Residential school survivor calls on Pope Francis to apologise for church’s role in abuse against Indigenous children.
We have been educated since our childhood that isn’t right. Notwithstanding, this issue isn’t given a lot of consideration to. Rather than being in school or doing other productive activities, what are these children’s being sentenced to do?.
As adults, perhaps our biggest responsibility in our lifetime is to protect our children, and the uncertainty of the world today has made that more important now than ever before.
A Hoppers Crossing man has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to child abuse offences.
Child abuse cases have skyrocketed during the past year, and advocates say that because of virtual learning, many students may have fallen under the radar.
A 16-year-old boy was brutally abused, tortured, and killed by his stepmother while his father did nothing to stop her, said authorities.
Horrifying details are emerging in a suspected case of child abuse that could leave a 4-year-old El Paso boy in a permanent vegetative state, if he survives.
Investigators with the San Luis Obispo County Sheriff's Office are looking for a man they suspect of molesting multiple children.
Eight new Crossroads CASA advocates—court-appointed special advocates for abused and neglected children were sworn in on June 1, 2021 by the Honorable John Potter and Honorable Jeryl Leach.
Israel Ramirez, charged with intentional child abuse which resulted in the death of 5-month-old Kamilah Hernandez, was indicted by a grand jury.
A new task force will create digital fingerprints (hashes) of millions of the most severe child sexual abuse images and videos so that they can be quickly identified and removed from the internet.
The Sierra Vista Police Department has arrested a man for child abuse. On Tuesday, officers arrested 34-year-old Reynaldo Alvarez for multiple counts each of aggravated assault, endangerment, and child abuse.
If teachers see signs of child abuse, they have both a professional duty and a legal obligation to report it, to ensure children get help.
Sen. Jeff Merkley, along with a bipartisan group of seven senators, have introduced the American Indian and Alaska Native Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, to help provide tribal nations with resources to combat child abuse and neglect.
Larry Shannon (58) had been caught in online sting by ‘paedophile hunters’ in 2017.
The Film and Publication Board says it has noted an increase in cases of children being targeted for online grooming.
Whatever the reasons, for the sake of all children, this topic is truly in need of further research. Let’s not hesitate.
Police have time to virtue-signal on Twitter, but not to tackle the systematic exploitation of young girls.
There has been a worrying drop in the number of people facing conviction for child abuse offences in Staffordshire. A charity boss says apps using end-to-end encryption are hampering efforts to stop abuse.
A middle-aged South Australian man will front court after he was allegedly found with pictures showing young girls being sexually abused.
A 3-year-old girl is making a comeback after she, her sister and their mother were found in March stranded in the bitter cold of Moffat County in northwest Colorado.
A prominent WA pastoralist has been sentenced to one year and eight months' jail for sexually abusing children while he was managing a Kimberley cattle station.
The Department of Human Services is an agency that values the protection of privacy, but in Pueblo County, KRDO found that the system may have strayed into dangerous secrecy.
Cardinal Blase Cupich reinstated the Rev. Michael Pfleger on Monday as senior pastor of St. Sabina Catholic Church after an investigation of allegations of sexual abuse of a minor more than 40 years ago
The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) is seeking applicants for a program that aims to “deliver services to prevent child abuse and neglect"
Sadly, we know child deaths due to abuse are far too common. The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System estimated that 1,840 children died from abuse and neglect in 2019.
A former Met Police officer who worked in the force's sex crime unit has been sentenced after he admitted downloading indecent images of children.
A Lehigh Acres man convicted as a sex offender in 2011 was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for possessing images and videos of the sexual abuse of children.
A Pennsylvania judge has ordered former Penn State President Graham Spanier to report to jail on July 9 for charges related to the child abuse scandal that embroiled the university a decade ago.
A 61-year-old man who carried out an "appalling" catalogue of abuse and rape against children in the north-east of Scotland has been jailed for 13 years.
A Lakeland woman faces DUI charges after deputies accused her of driving above the legal limit following her car crashing into a fence.
A Houston-area couple has been charged in a gruesome child abuse case in New Hampshire alleging the man intentionally immersed the hand of his 3-year-old stepdaughter in boiling water.
Child abuse has worsened during the pandemic with crimes linked to indecent images increasing by more than half in 2020, a report in Germany has revealed. Authorities say shutdowns give online abusers more opportunities.
About 400,000 fewer child welfare concerns were reported and there was a drop of about 200,000 child abuse and neglect investigations, according to a report from the Associated Press.
A man wanted for murder and child abuse in Tempe has been arrested at a U.S. Army base in Fort Hood, Texas.
An Arroyo Grande man was arrested this week on suspicion of child sexual abuse with multiple victims under the age of 14.
The 23rd annual Roof Sit event was taking place May 20-22, 2021 to support programs for child victims of sexual and severe physical abuse
Coffee County Child Advocacy Center Director Joyce Prusak is putting out a call to all Coffee countians to do their part to prevent child abuse and protect our most vulnerable
One in five children will experience some form of sexual abuse before their 18th birthday. We need to change the way we listen to survivors’ stories, no matter how uncomfortable they are to hear, and teach people their secret is safe to tell.
Former Jacksonville Jaguars linebacker Telvin Smith will reportedly avoid prison time following his arrest over allegations of a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old girl.
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