A residential treatment center in Missouri advertises to adoptive parents that it can help heal struggling children ...

Anthony Odiong was charged with exploiting his status to pursue sex with women he was giving spiritual direction to ...

A civil rights suit says officials ignored warnings about overcrowding, understaffing and “deplorable” conditions at the ...

A team of Georgia State University researchers is calling for digital platforms to implement stronger safety measures in ...

CHARLOTTE — North Carolina lawmakers are rallying behind new legislation aimed at preventing child abuse cases from slipping through the cracks. The Dominique Moody Act would create a specialized ...

One in six internet-using children from a survey of nearly 12,000 children in 12 countries across Asia and Africa are found ...

From Friday's decision of the Nebraska Supreme Court in Munsell v. Munsell (opinion by Justice Derek Vaughn): Jacob and Libby married in 2010 and had two children, one born in 2016 and the second born ...

A Catholic priest from Nigeria has been found guilty by a Texas court of sexually abusing several women under his spiritual ...

Much of the abuse of vulner­able adults and older people is going unpunished because of a lack of safeguarding law, a new report from the Oireachtas Health Committee has warned. The committee’s ...

Two men who conspired to sexually exploit children were sentenced Monday, May 15, to decades in federal prison. Joseph Brandon, 50, of Knoxville, Tennessee, was sentenced to 55 years in prison while ...