Social media influencers make money on content built around their foster and adoption experiences, but there are few protections to protect the kids from exploitation.

A jury was told on Tuesday, March 14, that a senior hospital executive allegedly ignored three warnings by a consultant pediatrician that Lucy Letby could have links to multiple deaths in the neonatal unit.

As part of a yearlong investigation, The Associated Press obtained the data points underpinning several algorithms deployed by child welfare agencies to understand how they predict which children could be at risk of harm.

A Las Vegas man tied to the extremist boogaloo movement has been sentenced to 33 years in federal prison after pleading guilty to multiple child sexual exploitation crimes.

Catholic bishops are pushing back, arguing the statutes would infringe on the First Amendment rights of priests.

The state Superior Court on Monday affirmed the conviction of former Pittsburgh Pirates closer Felipe Vazquez, who was found guilty nearly two years ago of sexually assaulting a minor.

Spain’s ombudsman says an independent commission set up a year ago to investigate historic sex abuse by the Catholic church has collected testimonies from 445 victims, as the nation tackles an issue other European countries acted on long ago.

Hitchcock police have shot and killed George Alejandro, a man wanted in a case involving sexual assault of a child, after a pursuit in Houston.