Stories tagged "childabuse" - Page 5

Most of the teenage girls taken from a Texas polygamist sect are either mothers or pregnant, officials say.

Child sex abuse cult leader George Feigley is free from prison. His Neo American Church advocated child abuse.

A South Carolina woman convicted of homicide by child abuse after her stillborn baby tested positive for cocaine should get a new trial because of several mistakes her attorneys made, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday.

An 8-year-old girl who consistently spent the night with a 47-year-old man accused of sexually assaulting her and drinking her urine told her mother what was happening, but the mom didn’t think it was a problem, according to the Boulder County Sheriffs.

The girl in the window - An Incredible story of a girl 'deprived of her humanity by a lack of nurturing', hopefully with a Happy End!

The Home Office is to tackle the problem of young British girls being lured into prostitution.

A US federal appeals court rules that a lawsuit against the Vatican over claims it covered up decades of child sex abuse can go ahead.

Researchers conducted a study with a racially diverse sample of 2,925 children ages 5 to 16 years that found that the types of violence that abused children were later re-exposed to lead to specific types of psychological problems.

The man accused of imprisoning his daughter for 24 years, fathering her children and keeping them locked in a cellar agreed Wednesday to further questioning, prosecutors said.

Rep. George Miller (D-CA) will introduce legislation tomorrow, aimed at reining in the billion dollar "troubled teen" industry, which, according to the New York Times, detained about 100,000 children and adolescents as of 2005-- a number which had quadr