child abuse

New data suggests that child welfare services were severely affected by the global pandemic after the revelation that 504 Black children died between October 2019 and September 2020 at a 17% increase compared to the previous year.

Damari Perry, the 6-year-old North Chicago boy who was reported missing by his family, was killed by them on his birthday and his body was discarded like trash. 

Many have started to believe New York rapper Jim Jones of popular hip-hop collective The Diplomats may have been sexually abused as a child after he joked in a recent interview that his own mother is the one who physically taught him how to tongue kiss as a child.

We’re talking a real-life Halloween horror story! A Texas mother and her boyfriend were charged Tuesday in the death of her 8-year-old son whose skeletal remains were found Sunday in an apartment where she had abandoned her three other kids. 

A worker at a Florida day care center hit a 1-year-old boy and then dropped the child to the floor, causing serious injuries, officials said.

A Colorado woman was arrested last week after being caught on video forcing her 5-year-old son into the trunk of her car.

A 12-year-old Georgia boy has been removed from his home and placed in DFCS after a disturbing video went viral showing him being abused because of his sexuality.

No child deserves to die over enjoying a slice of cheesecake, especially at the hands of his own father.

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota mother has admitted she severely injured her 11-year-old son by throwing him from the balcony of their fourth-floor apartment but has not explained why, police said. Itayvia Lloyd, 33, was being held Tuesday in the Ramsey County jail on probable charges of aggravated assault, malicious punishment of a […]

A young mother and her 7-month-old baby girl are lucky to be alive after a disturbing abuse incident involving the woman’s boyfriend. Police in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, arrested 21-year-old David Jones on January 27 after he allegedly hit the child before pouring hot sauce in her mouth — and when the child’s mother tried to intervene, Jones assaulted her, as well, […]

A Camden, Arkansas student resource officer has reportedly been put on paid leave after a video of him placing a high school student in a chokehold and lifting from the ground as others are screaming for the officer to release him circulated online. n the footage, the officer, Jake Perry is seen trying to detain […]