Child Abuse

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

A Georgia woman has been sentenced to 200 years in prison plus 200 years of probation in a horrific child abuse case involving her nine children. More

March 16, 2022

Heather Adkins is accused of abandoning her 5-year-old, non-verbal son on a dark road in the rain. From jail, she told reporters she left the child to save him from herself. More

March 14, 2022

Alexis Avila allegedly put her baby boy in multiple plastic bags filled with trash before throwing the bag into a dumpster in freezing conditions behind a city business. More

March 1, 2022

Police said a 4-year-old child fired a gun at officers on the order of their father Monday at a Utah McDonald's. More

February 22, 2022

Detectives said the Ferriters had been physically abusing and forcibly confining the teen to live in the garage structure since at least 2017. More

February 16, 2022

A missing six-year-old girl has been found alive inside a makeshift room under the stairs of her non-custodial parents in upstate New York. More

February 16, 2022

A Colorado mother whose 7-year-old daughter died after authorities said she duped doctors about her daughter’s health, leading to unnecessary surgeries and medications, was sentenced to 16 years in prison. More

February 11, 2022

A mother whose infant son was found dead in her Cleveland home last week with suspected fentanyl in his system has been charged with felony child endangerment. More

January 21, 2022

The man arrested for investigation of the attempted murder of his 5-year-old son along the Cherry Creek Trail last week confessed to trying to kill his son and was driven by mental health issues, a Denver court heard Thursday at his first appearance. Michael Ninomiya, 42, was arrested Wednesday for investigation of attempted first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder – position of trust, attempted child abuse causing death, and child abuse causing serious bodily injury. More

January 21, 2022

DENVER  (Scripps News Denver) — A father has been arrested for the attempted murder of his 5-year-old son after the two were rescued from icy water along Cherry Creek Trail last week. Around 4:30 p.m. on Jan. 12, the Denver Fire Department says crews received a call that a 5-year-old boy had fallen into the […] More

January 20, 2022

An 18-year-old New Mexico woman accused of abandoning her newborn baby in a dumpster pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges of attempted first-degree murder and child abuse. Alexis Avila of Hobbs was told by a Lea County judge at her arraignment that she can stay out of jail pending trial and set house arrest as a main condition of release. More

January 12, 2022

The police chief in New Hampshire's largest city made another plea Wednesday for anyone with information on Harmony Montgomery, who was last seen in 2019 at age 5, to come forth, saying detectives are working on about 300 tips and the reward fund has grown to $104,000. More

January 12, 2022

Avila said she was not aware that she was pregnant until Jan. 6 when she sought medical attention for abdominal pain. More

January 11, 2022

A television producer has pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges in connection with paying a Nevada woman to bring her 9-year-old daughter to Vermont to engage in illegal sexual activity at a Ludlow ski house. More

December 22, 2021

According to court documents, CNN producer John Griffin allegedly used messaging services to contact her and other parents of young girls. More

December 17, 2021

William Looper told investigators he beat and abused the boy for two weeks and couldn't explain why, Solicitor David Stumbo said. More

November 12, 2021

Buffalo N.Y. man Keenen M. LaValley sentenced to prison for sexually abusing child victims. District attorney said he sexually abused victims 13-years-old or younger between 2010 and 2017. More

November 2, 2021

A California mother is accused of hosting alcohol-filled parties for her teenage son and his friends, encouraging them to drink heavily and engage in sex acts with intoxicated girls, some of them non-consensual, prosecutors said. More

October 14, 2021

Illinois and federal officials on Monday unveiled a mobile unit that they say will add speed and efficiency to digital investigations of child pornography and exploitation. More

October 4, 2021

A Michigan woman has been charged with murder days after her 3-year-old daughter's body was found with stab wounds inside a garbage bag, authorities said. More

September 21, 2021

The child abuse charges could mean three to twelve months in jail. More

August 27, 2021