OpSafeChild

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The panel will help the pontiff decide how best to protect children from sexual abuse by priests and also consider ways to support past victims.

ttorney General Beau Biden announced on Friday that Robert Hohn and Shannon Watterson, who reportedly locked their 12-year-old son in a bedroom for a three month period and , were both sentenced to prison time.

A Lago Vista couple faces child endangerment charges after authorities found their home covered in feces and garbage.

An Army staff sergeant has been accused of severely abusing and neglecting her young stepdaughter, according to reports from a public defender and assistant state's attorney in Harford County District Court on Tuesday.

HARRISBURG -- A bill at the center of a package of child abuse law reforms passed unanimously through a Senate committee Tuesday. The legislation, which has passed the House, could get a full Senate vote as early as next week. The proposal is the legal centerpiece of a huge overhaul of the state's child abuse laws; it is one of a number of changes put forth by a task force convened in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal. The main provision of the bill is a new definition of what legally constitutes child abuse:

Arizona’s Child Protective Services is sorting through a backlog of 6000 child abuse reports that it failed to investigate

The baby suffered from rib and leg fractures, police say.

WILMINGTON, Del. -- More than 1,400 victims of former Delaware pediatrician Earl B. Bradley have been sent letters detailing the amount of money they will receive from a $122 million settlement.

Kierra N. Spriggs, 24, and Sarah A. Jordan, 29, both of Woodbridge, were charged with two counts each of assault and battery and cruelty or injury to a child.

Good Stuff. I hope they continue.

Is there a reason why these cases are not investigated?