January 27, 2026 – 2:11 p.m. ONEIDA, Wis. (WFRV) – The fourth adult charged in a chronic child neglect case, leaving a ...

Mallerie Shirley and her husband were found to be neglectful of their 6-year-old after letting him scooter to a park alone.

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

A 5-year-old boy in Louisiana died weighing just 19 pounds, a weight more typical of an infant than a kindergartner, after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Missouri's child welfare agency has for years struggled with high turnover rates among staff who work most closely with children and families.