child abuse

A Massachusetts family doctor was arrested for allegedly recording and possessing child sex abuse images, including on a hidden camera designed to look like a bracelet, prosecutors said Tuesday.

A judge gave a guilty verdict to a woman and her boyfriend who were charged with torturing and murdering their 10-year-old son in 2018. Ted Chen reports for the NBC4 News on March 7, 2023.

A judge is set to announce the verdict Tuesday in the trial of a Lancaster woman and her boyfriend who are charged with torturing and murdering her 10-year-old son in 2018.

Anthony Avalos’ mother and her boyfriend are “evil” and “monsters,” a prosecutor said in closing arguments of the torture and murder trial related to the boy’s death.

A young woman testifying in the murder trial of her father and his girlfriend said that she saw her dad repeatedly dropping his girlfriend’s 10-year-old son on the floor and that the boy appeared to be dead when she saw him two days later.

The two half-siblings of Anthony Avalos testified about the forced punishment they had to undergo before the death of their brother.

Plaintiffs’ attorneys say Central California’s Tulare County will pay $32 million to settle a lawsuit alleging its child welfare agency failed to respond to reports of abuse involving an infant boy who was hospitalized for malnutrition and suffered brain damage.

A prosecutor told a judge Wednesday that a Lancaster woman and her boyfriend tortured and abused her 10-year-old son for two weeks before his death, while an attorney for the male defendant countered that his client should be acquitted of murder.

Police say they have identified the boy whose body was found in April in a Las Vegas-themed suitcase in rural Indiana, as well as two suspects in his death.

Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials.

A woman who drove an SUV over a man after he confronted her for beating a child in an apartment complex parking lot near the Lincoln Park neighborhood was sentenced Monday to nine years in state prison.

A 10-month-old baby who ingested a foreign substance in Costa Mesa that left the girl hospitalized was recovering Wednesday, while her father was behind bars and charged with child abuse.

A South Carolina mother accused of killing her three-year-old foster child has been convicted of homicide by child abuse.

Critics say employing such algorithms gives a program powered by data mostly collected about poor people an outsized role in deciding families’ fates.

The San Bernardino County District Attorney Thursday charged two Barstow parents with murder in the alleged torture death of their 1-year-old baby boy.

A Barstow 1-year-old who arrived unresponsive at a Pomona hospital was pronounced dead, leading to police arresting the baby boy’s parents on suspicion of murder, police said Tuesday.

Costa Mesa police arrested 39-year-old youth soccer coach Joshua Clever Thursday on suspicion of child molestation and possession of child sexual abuse material. As the investigation continues into Clever’s history, detectives are seeking potential additional victims and ask for the public’s assistance in identifying them.

A Texas judge is hearing a case Friday on whether to prevent state officials from investigating reports of transgender youth receiving gender confirming care as child abuse.

Two day care workers in Rancho Cucamonga were arrested after a child suffered a skull fracture, and the two allegedly concealed the injury from the child’s mother, authorities said.

Police allege the mother of a 14-year-old New Jersey girl, whose disappearance drew national attention, brutally abused her for years and forced her to skip school and beg for money on the streets.