Stories tagged "childabuse"

A former science teacher in Massachusetts is accused of duct taping a 12-year-old student's mouth shut. Note the word "former" in that sentence.

American taxpayers have helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million .

Texas child welfare authorities are looking at the possibility that young boys were sexually abused at a polygamist sect's ranch, a newly revealed angle of a massive investigation triggered by allegations that girls were forced into underage marriages and

A 13-year-old girl described to the BBC how 10 UN peacekeepers gang-raped her in a field near her Ivory Coast home, and left her bleeding, trembling and vomiting on the ground.

New York Mom Allegedly Put Son, 7, in Oven as Punishment, Police arrested a woman Friday after her 7-year-old son told authorities she burned him in an oven, and a day-care worker was arrested for not reporting the attack.

Santa-Monica-Malibu Unified officials try to ease concerns of parents after revelations that a teacher jailed on molestation charges had been accused but not charged in 2006.

Babies thrown off tower 1:00 Babies are dropped several stories for good health and good luck at a shrine in Solapur, in Maharastra, India.

FTA: "This kid was sent home to be tortured for another 13 days, as far as I'm concerned, because somebody dropped the ball," Middleborough Police Chief Gary Russell told the Globe. "It makes you want to cry. This kid was tortured."

Plant City Detective Mark Holste had been on the force for 18 years when he was sent to the house on Old Sydney Road to stand by during a child abuse investigation. Someone had finally called the police. You will never believe what he found.

A hemophilic boy in Pennsylvania bleeds to death over a period of two days from a small cut on his foot. An Indiana girl dies after a malignant tumor sprouts from her skull and grows so enormous that it’s nearly the size of her head...