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Armed with grim statistics, experts and activists are mobilizing this week to demand expanded federal efforts — including more money and tougher oversight — to reverse a recent rise in the number of children dying from abuse and neglect.
A woman who says she was "married" to evangelist Tony Alamo at age 8 testified at his sex-crimes trial Friday that the minister likely cut into tiny pieces the explicit photos of her he took of her around that time.
The former finance director of the nonprofit National Children's Alliance pleaded guilty Tuesday to stealing from the organization that helps child abuse victims.
The new defense lawyer for jailed evangelist Tony Alamo said Thursday that his client's poor eyesight and diminishing physique would have made it impossible for him to have had sex with underage girls, as federal prosecutors claim.
Police in North Dakota say a woman has been arrested after her 2-year-old son was found outside dressed only in a shirt, shorts and boots when the temperature was 15 below zero.
An Arkansas child welfare official says the state is retaining custody of six children associated with the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.
Seth Calagna recalled lying on the Fort Smith warehouse floor, feeling every strike of the board against his backside as blood oozed onto the winter-cooled concrete.
A federal magistrate called Tony Alamo a flight risk Wednesday as he ordered the evangelist held without bail until his trial on charges that he took a minor across state lines for sex.
A woman's call to police led to the arrest of a mom whose bruised, bloodied 3-year-old was unresponsive in a shopping cart, police said Friday.
The "librarian" of a child porn archive accused of amassing nearly 250,000 images pleaded guilty Monday to sending indecent images of children to subscribers in more than 30 countries.
Prosecutor Jill Starishevsky was working on the case of a little girl who had been consistently raped by her stepfather when she got an idea of how she could help families prevent such horrific acts.
The House approved national standards on juvenile boot camps and other public and private programs intended to help troubled youth. Lawmakers acted Wednesday following reports of abuse and deaths involving young people with behavioral, emotional or mental problems.
Many states often fail to release adequate information about fatal and near-fatal child abuse cases, placing confidentiality above disclosure to a degree that thwarts needed reforms, two child advocacy groups say in a new report.
A soldier has been accused of severely beating his 3-year-old stepson on Christmas after the boy's grandparents placed a hidden camera in the child's bedroom and picked up sounds of suspected beatings.
Six-year-old Oscar Jimenez Jr. was beaten to death in California, then buried under fertilizer and cement. Two-year-old Devon Shackleford was drowned in an Arizona swimming pool. Jayden Cangro, also 2, died after being thrown across a room in Utah.
The traditional owners of Ayers Rock threatened Tuesday to ban tourists from climbing Australia's iconic monolith in response to a government plan to combat child abuse in the Outback.
A woman was charged with aggravated child abuse for putting her baby in an oven, turning it on and leaving her apartment after fighting with her boyfriend, police said.
In the United States today there is an established system for reporting child abuse and neglect. However this was not always the case. The first publicly reported case of child abuse in the United States was in 1866.
Child abuse may shorten cell lifeline: studyBeaten or sexually abused children are more likely to show accelerated ageing of cells later in life, a condition linked to higher rates of cancer and heart disease, according to a study released Friday.
8-year-old rape victim's parents charged with abuse - CNN.comThe parents of an 8-year-old Liberian girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted by four boys in July were arrested Friday on child abuse charges, according to Arizona police.
10 yr old Arkansas Girl Tasered with Mother's Permission10 yr old Girl Tasered for not Going to Bed & Being Unruly
Tony Alamo, convicted of federal sex charges, received 175 years in a federal prison Friday during his sentencing hearing. Alamo, the 75-year-old leader of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, appeared in court in Texarkana Friday to receive his sentence.
Police searching land in sex crime allegationsLEXINGTON, Mo. - Authorities have begun a search on rural property for glass jars with notes written by children who were allegedly being abused by their relatives
Man paid woman to have sex with her teen daughterA man who allegedly paid money to the mother of a 14-year-old girl so he could have sex with the child has been charged with sexual assault.
Uncle under arrest after giving nephew grain alcoholA 38-year-old Valrico man who alledgedly gave his nephew grain alcohol is being held without bond in Hillsborough County.
Compassion for the Taliban's Child Soldiers"Child soldiers." The phrase evokes many images: schoolchildren snatched from their homes at night to be porters and sex slaves for the Lord's Resistance Army, drug-addled Liberian adolescents, rail thin Somali teens dwarfed by their own weapons.
19 year old student talked Emma Thompson out of support for child rapist Roman PolanskiUK Exeter Uni student: "We talked for 15 minutes and by the end she said she would get her name removed. She said regardless of the fact she knows him and the terrible things he has been through, a crime is a crime."
Nice houseguest: He quizzes 15-year-old about sex lifeA house guest from hell. How else to describe Christopher Lee Kooser, 30, who stayed with a Fort Walton Beach family in July.
Woman accused of child abuse A Tampa woman was arrested Wednesday morning for child abuse, after teachers at the victim's school called the state's child abuse hotline, Tampa police said.
Koran verses "appear" on baby in RussiaIn Russia, thousands of Muslims are flocking to see a baby who has verses from the Koran mysteriously appearing on his body:
To: Inmate Brian Michael Lane, Florida Department of Corrections, DC# C02830 As the 1st year of our living hell comes around, I find myself thinking of you.
Parents charged with starving baby to death Two people are under arrest after they allegedly starved their baby to death.
Melbourne Catholic Priests Warned To Ignore Letter On Child AbuseCATHOLIC Archbishop Denis Hart has sent a letter to every Melbourne parish warning priests not to read to congregations a letter from a woman who says she was procured by nuns so a priest could rape her when she was a child.
15-Year-Old Girl Charged with 9 year old Elizabeth Olten's Murder Police have served a warrant on a neighbor's home in Elizabeth's murder. See update after the jump...
Social worker charged with possessing child pornography (Alaska)An Anchorage social worker has been arrested on a charge of possessing child pornography after police said they found graphic images of child abuse in his possession.
Mom says school secretary duct-taped her son's mouth, wristsDENVER - A mother says a secretary at her 6-year-old son's school placed duct tape on his mouth and taped his wrists together. Ashlye Tenner's son, Joshua Fredericks, is in first grade at Palmer Elementary School.
Mother had 2 year old jump on her baby until it stopped breathing - told police life would be easier if infant was dead.A Titusville woman was arrested Thursday afternoon in the attempted murder of her 11-month-old son, police said.
Abuse report: 10,440 children died 2001-07More than 10,000 children died from abuse or neglect in the United States from 2001 through 2007, a report released today says.
Lawyer: 'Balloon boy' family ready to surrenderThe attorney for Richard Heene - now suspected of staging the incident that had the nation thinking his 6-year-old son was trapped in a runaway balloon - said that his clients are ready to turn themselves in. "Do not do the perp walk," Richard Lane urged police.
Charges Refiled Against Dad Who Tattooed Gang Sign on Son - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News - FOXNews.comProsecutors say Gonzalez, 27, held his son down against his will while Gorman, 21, inked a quarter-sized gang insignia on the boy's hip.
Okla. mom charged with locking son in closetsThe mother of a 14-year-old boy who says he was locked away in apartment closets over four years was charged Thursday with 29 counts of child abuse for allegedly torturing and imprisoning the teen.
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