Child Abuse

The murder case involving a former social worker who allegedly threw her newborn daughter out of an apartment building in New York has investigators looking back on the death of another child the mother had in 2008. According to the New York Times, Jennifer Berry, 33, was arrested on second-degree murder charges on Tuesday. Police said Berry threw […]

A jury found Joseph Patterson guilty in the death of NFL running back Adrian Peterson‘s two-year-old son, ESPN reports. A South Dakota jury deliberated for over five hours before reaching their verdict, the site writes. Tyrese Robert Ruffin died in October 2013 in the home of Patterson and Peterson’s former girlfriend, Ashley Ann Doohen. Autopsy results showed the toddler sustained […]

The Chicago mother of a special needs child is demanding answers after she discovered him covered in a black trash bag at school

A day care in South Carolina is being investigated after a teenager shared a photo of her foot inside the mouth of a 7-month-old baby.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has allowed the housing secretary to keep his job after profiling low-income residents and accusing them of deliberately poisoning their children to score free rent. The governor had a “direct” talk with Secretary Kenneth C. Holt, Maryland Secretary of the Department of Housing and Community Development, about the disparaging comments he […]

A Florida kindergarten teacher accused of placing duct tape over students’ eyes as a form of punishment was suspended without pay by the Hillsborough County School Board in a vote of 6-0 Tuesday. The teacher, Lindsay Blanc, may face permanent termination, though she could appeal to the board in an effort to keep her job, […]

Life is imitating art for one of Law & Order‘s former directors. Jason “Jace” Alexander, who worked on the show from 1994 through 2005, was arrested Wednesday on child pornography charges. According to the Westchester County District Attorney, Alexander was charged with several felony counts of promoting sexual performance by a child after he was caught […]

The death of a three-year-old found unresponsive on a swing in Maryland has been ruled a homicide, NBC Washington reports. Charles County Sheriff’s Office released information about the May incident involving Romechia Simms and her son Ji’Aire Donnell Lee this week. The child was put in a swing at a LaPlata-area park on May 20 and found dead (with […]

In a shocking and disturbing courtroom confession, a Detroit mother charged with killing and freezing her children to death said Monday that she felt “no remorse for the death of them demons,” according to MLive. The mother, Mitchelle Blair, was arrested after the bodies of Stoni Blair, 13, and Stephen Berry, 9, were discovered in […]

A 24-year-old father of two is facing the death penalty for allegedly beating one of his sons to death over a potty training accident. Anthony Trakemon Powell was arrested last week alongside his sister Prosha Nicole Land in Houston, Texas, according to USA Today. On Mother’s Day, Powell picked the boys up from their mom’s home in Jasper, where […]

Titus Chidi Ebubechukwu and Mary Nkiruka Ebubechukwu, a couple in Lancaster, Calif., pleaded not guilty to child abuse and false imprisonment charges after their 10-year-old daughter was discovered locked inside of a room with a chain on the door, KTLA.com reports. According to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office, the couple […]

Earlier this month, a United Nations report revealed that French soldiers were forcing young boys in the Central African Republic to perform sexual acts on them in return for money. Nearly two weeks later, the alleged abuses carried out by soldiers deployed as “peacekeepers” is taking a disturbing turn. As Vox.com points out, child rape […]