After Arizona’s Department of Child Safety placed a toddler with a man who ran a “pornographic pedophile ring” out of his home, it moved her to a home where the foster mother burned her with scalding water over 80 percent of her body, the little girl’s guardian claims in court.
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The Ninth Circuit on Thursday ruled that a man wrongfully convicted of sexually abusing his children and stepson, and who served almost 20 years in prison because a Washington state sheriff’s detective fabricated evidence, is entitled to sizable damages.
Read moreA Kansas City, Kansas, lawmaker has introduced Adrian’s Act, a proposal that would penalize adults who fail to report child abuse, named in honor of a little boy whose father and stepmother abused him until he died – and fed his body to their pigs.
Read moreA Republican lawmaker’s plan to protect children from being trafficked for sex over the internet drew opposition from sex worker advocates Monday.
Read moreTwo teenage girls claimed in a $20 million lawsuit Monday that their elementary school principal sexually abused them in his office years ago.
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Wrapping up a battle on prior restraint this week, a New Jersey judge threw out an attempt to censor a reporter given custody records about a kindergartner who brought heroin to school.
Read moreReinstating the conviction of a man who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old, the New Jersey Supreme Court found that prosecutors were right to admit evidence that he played strip poker with the child in another state.
Read moreA reporter who obtained confidential child-custody documents testified before a New Jersey judge Wednesday that the child’s mother gave him the materials he is accused of stealing.
Read moreThe mother of a young boy in New Orleans claims in court that her son was sexually assaulted by a city police officer who was then-acting president of a youth mentoring program.
Read moreThe estate of a child who was kicked to death by his mother told the 10th Circuit on Tuesday that the New Mexico Children, Youth and Families Department had many chances to remove the child from the unsafe home before he was killed.
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