Child abuse

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski Jr. issued a statement calling it a "horrific and a heartbreaking loss of life."

Officers found that the property didn't have any food, running water or working toilet facilities when they searched the home on Sunday.

The court's 5-2 ruling put an end to the case of plaintiff Renee Rice to recover compensation from the Roman Catholic Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown.

Footage of a 6-year-old girl being dragged down the street by her school bus has been released amid the civil trial against the driver.

Tyler Ball-Imsdahl was suspended by Washoe County School District following his arrest, after a school investigation in May was prompted by Yahoo flagging suspicious emails.

Thomas Alan Arthur was convicted in January 2021 for trafficking textual stories and drawings of child and infant sexual abuse and murder on a website he had run since 1996. Arthur personally reviewed and approved all submissions before publication.

Ghislaine Maxwell should be investigated by U.K. police on Jeffrey Epstein's related grooming allegations, according to a former British prosecutor.

In a letter to Reinhard Marx, Pope Francis responded to the announcement that the cardinal would resign as archbishop of Munich and Freising due to the church's mishandling of abuse cases.

Abdul Hasib Elahi, 26, targeted victims around the world. The case was described by a U.K. crime agency as "some of the most sickening sexual offending" it had ever investigated.

Brandon Rodriguez attempted to coax at least three underage girls into an apartment building on May 24 and 25, the NYPD said.

Tammy Taylor Moffett, 53, was arrested by police after her daughter, Malikah Diane Bennett, 31, was charged three days earlier with killing her 4-year-old.

A woman on Reddit has detailed how her neighbor accused her of "force-feeding" her son food to make him ill while she was babysitting him.

Eleven-year-old Rylee Abbuhl's mother has said for years that the child suffers from a terminal illness. Now, Rylee's father and authorities are saying it's all a lie.

A 24-year-old soldier in York, England was arrested for assaulting his pregnant girlfriend and trying to stop her from receiving pain relief medicines as she was giving birth at the Harrogate District Hospital.

The allegedly neglected four-year-old girl had lost so much blood that she was given four transfusions.

The nine-year-old underwent three weeks of treatment at a hospital, including seven surgical procedures, due to internal bleeding following the incident.

The mummified corpse of a Colorado cult leader was found wrapped inside of a sleeping bag and covered in Christmas lights. Seven followers have been arrested.

Jeffrey Epstein's former lover told an appeals court she needed bail due to sleeping with a sock over her eyes because prison guards shine a torch into her room every 15 minutes.

A California court ruled on Monday that companies that were owned by the late pop icon were not responsible for failing to protect Robson and other alleged victims.

The Hollywood star's family fled the commune they lived in just outside Florence when the cult began advocating sexual relationship between adults and kids.

Carlson also compared forcing school children to wear masks outside to adults punching children in the face.

The British socialite is due in court on trafficking charges related to Jeffrey Epstein, including claims she undressed in front of a minor.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers complained prosecutors in her Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case "persist in using pseudonyms" for an alleged victim who "told her story" to Netflix.

Ghislaine Maxwell's lawyers said she is "no monster" and claimed the women accusing her have changed their stories in a new attempt to get bail in her Jeffrey Epstein trafficking case.

Footage of a teacher hitting a student so hard his face mask came off has gone viral and enraged parents.

A child daycare facility allegedly refused to feed Black kids in their care until after the white children had finished their food.

Officers suspect prescription drug abuse may be involved and are looking to charge the mother with suspected child abuse.

The 59-year-old, who is awaiting trial on trafficking offenses, "is now fully vaccinated," according to a U.S. attorney.

Mother Nikki Reardon was on the run, and has now been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon, endangering a child and tampering with evidence—a human corpse.

Ghislaine Maxwell prosecutors have handed over 2.7 million pages of evidence to the British socialite's lawyers in her Jeffrey Epstein-related trafficking case.