Child Abuse

U.S. couple Mackenzie Spencer and Nicholas Spencer are charged with child trafficking involving a foster child in Uganda. More

December 22, 2022

Colorado woman Susan Lucero was arrested after allegedly stabbing her 10-year-old son multiple times. Cops say she also stabbed herself multiple times. More

December 21, 2022

Missouri mom Shelly Christine Vallejo admits to her role in the death of her 2-year-old son who died after a fentanyl overdose. More

December 21, 2022

Ashley Roland and Nathan Bridges were arrested after the 6-year-old's decomposing body was found buried underneath a hallway floor. More

December 20, 2022

The FBI sounded the alarm about an increase in teen boys targeted online and extorted for money after being tricked into sending sexually explicit photos. More

December 19, 2022

Dr. Katherine Lessman insisted the outcome of the baby’s death spoke to defendant Angela Hock’s incompetence and negligence.  More

December 14, 2022

John Griffin met a woman on a website in 2020 and persuaded her to bring her 9-year-old daughter to his Vermont home for illegal sexual activity. More

December 14, 2022

4 upstate New York men -- Scott Wood, Jr., Domenic Licata, Matthew Koons and Leonard Sawyer -- were arrested for sex crimes against children. More

December 13, 2022

Self-proclaimed midwife Angela Hock is facing negligent child abuse charges after a home-birth delivery went tragically wrong. More

December 9, 2022

The FedEx driver accused of abducting and killing 7-year-old Athena Strand told cops he strangled her after accidentally hitting her with his van. More

December 8, 2022

Fla. backup QB Jalen Kitna, son of retired NFL QBJon Kitna, is charged with distribution of child exploitation material and possession of child porn. More

November 30, 2022

Antoniel Colon, who attempted to sexually abuse a child, got 15 years in prison, post-release supervision, and must register as a sex offender. More

November 8, 2022

Thomas Valva died after being forced to sleep overnight on the concrete floor of a freezing garage in Michael Valva's Long Island home. More

November 7, 2022

An Iowa-based youth basketball league agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit filed by former players whose coach, Greg Stephen, secretly recorded them undressing or obtained nude photos of them and is now serving a lengthy prison sentence for sexual exploitation of minors. More

August 1, 2022

The parents of a 3-year-old girl who was found wandering naked in Vero Beach have been arrested and charged with child neglect. More

August 1, 2022

The shocking abuse in the Turpin home went unnoticed in Perris, California until then-17-year-old Jordan Turpin escaped in January 2018 and called police. More

July 8, 2022

The case against the Jupiter parents accused of locking their adopted son in an 8-foot by 8-foot box has been continued until Monday. Timothy and Tracey Ferriter are charged with false imprisonment and aggravated child abuse. More

June 9, 2022

Maryland murder suspect Randolph Mack blames 3-year-old's beating death on the girl's 9-year-old brother. More

June 8, 2022

Evan Frostick, 26, and Madison Bernard, 23 -- parents of a 15-month-old -- were arrested at their Santa Rosa apartment for her death after the child was found unresponsive. Police found drug paraphernalia and fentanyl. More

May 11, 2022

Police say 32-year-old Evan Thomas Harris Frock used multiple names on Snapchat, falsely posing as a high school aged boy to solicit explicit photos from underage girls. More

May 11, 2022

Las Vegas elementary special ed teacher Alfred Carcena arrested for lewdness with child. More

April 22, 2022

William Ushler, director of upper school admissions at Delaware prep school Tower Hill, is charged with five counts of dealing in child pornography. More

April 21, 2022

Former University of Michigan violin professor Stephen Shipps sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to transporting a girl across states lines for sex. He must also pay $120,000 in restitution to his victim. More

April 15, 2022

Former Franciscan friar Paul West was convicted of sexually abusing a grade school student during the 1990s at a Mississippi Catholic school. More

April 13, 2022

Three members of a Southern California family pleaded not guilty Friday to abusing their nine foster children, including two girls from the Turpin family who were rescued from nightmarish conditions three years ago. More

April 4, 2022

Chelsea Crossland is accused of killing her 5-year-old son and sexually abusing a young girl for years. More

April 4, 2022

They claim their children hacked their email to obtain the evidence, and the couple's attorney is now fighting to have that information thrown out. More

April 1, 2022

A Texas woman who said her 3-year-old son was killed in a road-rage shooting has been arrested on a child endangerment charge, police said Thursday. More

April 1, 2022

Andrew Carlson, father of missing 5-year-old girl Oakley Carlson, sentenced to about a year in prison after pleading guilty to exposing children to methamphetamine. More

March 29, 2022

A Ring camera captured 5-year-old Thomas Adkins walking up to someone's front door on a rainy night in February. More

March 22, 2022