When detectives asked Michael Beer’s young daughter to demonstrate how Beer handled the toddler state child welfare authorities placed in hi...

Forced to give her up for adoption, Liz Wilde’s mother Valerie was told it would spell the end of her troubles as a ‘fallen woman’. But deca...

A Champlin, Minnesota woman will be sentenced next month on a third-degree assault conviction for injuring her infant foster son. A jury f...

Officers wielding pistols and ballistic shields kicked in the door of a suburban Phoenix home in the middle of the night to bring a sick 2-y...

By the age of 17, David Vanwetter had been in and out of detention perhaps a dozen times. Often homeless when he went in, he would be righ...

Earlier this month, 29 migrant parents from across Central America who were separated from their children last year by U.S. immigration offi...

The case worker and her supervisor who were responsible for handling the case involving Aniya Day-Garrett, the 4-year-old girl who was kille...

A woman who plotted the rape, torture and murder of her own teenage daughter pleaded guilty on Friday and was sentenced to life in pr...

A 63-year-old Urbana foster dad on Wednesday was sentenced to 13 years in prison for sex crimes involving three young boys. Jeffery McClai...

A foster care worker in Bradford County has pleaded guilty to child endangerment. Tabitha Dunn of Monroeton was charged in December after ...

The prosecution of a former Galesburg foster parent moved a step forward Tuesday afternoon. Dennis K. Donnelly, 70, Glendale, Arizona, mad...

There were 40 substantiated child protection and welfare concerns made against foster carers last year, the Child and Family Agency has reve...

Oregon child welfare officials are removing foster children from a Klamath Falls residential program located in a county juvenile jail, afte...

After a SWAT team broke open a door to take an unvaccinated 2-year-old boy with a fever to the hospital, an Arizona lawmaker is calling for ...

Manatee child protection services investigator Gwendolena Fernandez was supposed to be working on a Wednesday morning last December when det...

Three youths under the watch of the state’s Department of Children and Families died of overdoses last year, and six others suffered nonfata...

A boy who was sexually abused while in a group home run by the South Carolina Department of Social Services has been awarded $534,000 in dam...

In February, Arizona police officers broke down the door of a private home with their guns drawn. They weren’t there to rescue a hostage. Th...

A man who killed and dismembered his girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter as part of a rape-murder fantasy he shared with the teenager'...

A lawyer for a child in Oregon's foster care system plans to sue the state after the lawyer says the child saw two state workers having ...

A Guatemalan father is suing two nonprofits that house migrant children for the US government, alleging his 10-year-old son was forced to ta...

State lawmakers are contemplating a bill that would limit the caseloads for state child protective workers, a shift aimed at closing cracks ...

Oregon child welfare officials concealed reviews into the deaths of two children on its watch, including one girl shot and killed in foster ...

A New York county has banned unvaccinated children from all public spaces as the state battles its largest measles outbreak in decades. Of...

Oregon teenagers who spent time in foster care were less than half as likely as their classmates in the class of 2017 to graduate on time. ...