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

A South Carolina special education teacher, Erin Wheeler, was arrested after being accused of assaulting a child. Wheeler, ...

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

According to PEOPLE, deputies with the Ascension Parish Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a gas station in Geismar at ...

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

APPLETON (WLUK) -- Melissa Goodman, one of four people charged with the alleged neglect of a 14-year-old girl who was hospitalized weighing just 35 pounds, waived a preliminary hearing Tuesday and was ...

A mother and father in Union, South Carolina, have been arrested after their 5-month-old son died, with authorities allegedly ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Independence is good. Neglect can be deadly. Indiana should fund prevention, not just redraw the line between the two.