child abuse

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

A 45-year-old Morgan Hill resident has been arrested on suspicion of abusing an 18-month-old child, police said Thursday.

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 Contra Costa County couple faces child abuse and torture charges after their 11-year-old daughter was found dead in their home.

A Rodeo couple faces child abuse and torture charges after their 11-year-old daughter was found dead in their home. Jodi Hernandez reports.

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 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.

A father, stepmother, grandmother and family friend were found guilty Thursday of torturing a 15-year-old girl with a hammer, pins, a chair and an awl in their care in Anaheim.

Alfonso Gonzalez Meraz, 32, was arrested on Oct. 4, 2019, stemming from an investigation that began earlier that year into sex crimes that allegedly occurred between 2009 and 2015, starting when the alleged victim was between 7 and 8 years old.