By the time Sadie Kendall turned 18 and aged out of West Virginia’s foster care system, she had lived in more than two dozen ...

Senators Rick Scott (R-FL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) have introduced the Stop Human Trafficking of Unaccompanied Migrant ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - A month into President Donald Trump’s first administration, an Ohio deputy stopped a Spanish-speaking family for speeding. The father had a valid Maryland driver’s license, but the ...

The law that created Chicago's elected school board also calls for a noncitizen advisory board, to let parents who can't vote ...

The Metropolitan Police has passed a full evidence file about a Premier League footballer accused of rape to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a charging decision, the BBC has been told.

The move comes as online criminals increasingly use AI to create child abuse material, with reports of such explicit images rising nearly five-fold in 2024, according to the Internet Watch Foundation.

This could include a state “takeover” of CPS’ financial management that ... noting that state involvement could take many forms. “It can be calibrated to whatever scope of responsibility ...

It is wrong to say group-based child abuse is predominantly committed by Pakistani men, the National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) has said. Figures from the police database show where ethnicity ...

Some forms of ill treatment are immediately identifiable as abuse. But elder abuse can also be very subtle, which makes it difficult for older people to pinpoint when it happens and for others in ...

Every state has mandatory reporting laws that require certain professionals like doctors or teachers to report child abuse and neglect. But in Florida, every adult is a mandated reporter.

Law enforcement officials have so far identified seven victims. A former nurse who was employed at the Henrico Doctors' Hospital in Richmond, Virginia, was charged on Friday with malicious ...