POLL: Child Abuse And Neglect : What We Can Do

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.

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A Titusville woman was arrested Thursday afternoon in the attempted murder of her 11-month-old son, police said.

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Kimberly Smith, 18, and James Moore, 21, were a little too talkative with Bay County Sheriff's deputies Monday.

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An Escambia County woman is charged with leaving her three young children home alone for two days with nothing to eat except six cups of Jello. One child, an 18-month old girl, was found dead in a trashcan at the woman's home.

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Police charged a Gainesville woman with neglect yesterday after she allegedly left her toddler by the side of the road while she went to her mother's house, several hundred feet away.

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Authorities say a Tampa woman let her 14-year-old daughter use marijuana and a bong during a weekend visit.

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When 2-year-old Kent Schaible became ill in January, his parents did what they always did: They prayed. Herbert and Catherine Schaible prayed for 10 days, and when Kent did not improve, they called their pastor to pray with them. When that failed, they called the funeral home.

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Two people have been arrested for child neglect after their kids were found riding big wheels naked around the neighborhood.

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The state Department of Children & Families investigated six prior allegations of abuse and neglect in the past 10 years involving Jeremiah Reese, including one in which he rode his bike on a major highway at 6 years old while his father slept.

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Authorities say a South Florida woman got behind the wheel of her minivan and passed out drunk, leaving her two young children to wander nearly two miles away from their home barefoot.

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The father of a Port Orange teenager who died Saturday of an apparent accidental drug overdose was arrested today on a charge of neglect of a child.

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Two years ago, something horrible happened to Tangela Key's two sons.

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According to Melbourne police a 37-year-old woman was arrested on a child-neglect charge Friday afternoon after a tow truck driver told police the mother offered to sell her child in exchange for gas money.

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A 23-year-old Lorain man was arrested after police said he put his crying infant daughter out on a balcony where it was so cold that the child turned blue.

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The day his son died, Greg Swezey told sheriff's investigators he knew Zakk would die 10 or 15 minutes before the teenager passed away.

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A babysitter has been charged with child neglect after she allegedly left a child in her car while she went shopping at the Desoto Square Mall Saturday afternoon.

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Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies arrested a Largo man accused of leaving two young kids in his vehicle as he patronized a strip club

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Bernard Quillen and Anastasia Usher are facing child neglect charges after deputies found a drugs and a loaded handgun inside their home on Spartan Court early Saturday morning.

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A Florida father faces felony child neglect charges after his 1-year-old son drowned in the family pool when the man left his young children momentarily to use the bathroom.

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A call about a domestic disturbance led to the discovery of drugs and a suspected pipe bomb, police said.

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The Pasco Sheriff's Office says a woman had four children in her car when she was pulled over in New Port Richey and later charged with driving under the influence.

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Gainesville police charged a 21-year-old woman with neglecting her children and battery after she apparently lost her temper early Sunday.

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Police in the eastern German state of Brandenburg are investigating whether a local couple kept their mentally handicapped daughter out of school and away from any social contact for nine years.

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A former Jacksonville teacher who had consensual sexual activity with a 16-year-old student pleaded guilty Monday to child neglect and was sentenced to two years probation.

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