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A South Florida woman is facing charges of aggravated child abuse for a series of gruesome attacks against a child with special needs, according to an arrest report.  Jennifer Elaine Foran, 39, allegedly tied the child to various appliances around the Pompano Beach home using a metal cable lock, the report stated. She also allegedly used an eyebrow razor to…

Deputies along Florida’s Treasure Coast arrested a couple after what they called a “horrific” case of abuse involving three teens found inside their home starving and locked up for months. St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office deputes arrested 40-year-old Oscar Torres and his 32-year-old wife, Brittany Kirschenhofer, on Tuesday after an investigation at their Port St. Lucie home that started...

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A Florida elementary school teacher is facing charges alleging he solicited online to have sex with a 2-year-old and traveled to meet the child

An Associated Press analysis has found that reports of child abuse plummeted during the coronavirus pandemic, as children are out of the public eye and away from usual reporters of welfare problems

A Hialeah teacher was arrested Friday for allegedly engaging in inappropriate and abusive sexual behavior with at least three underage students over the course of several years. 41-year-old Jeanette Valle-Tejeda is facing various charges of child abuse, sexual battery and committing sex acts with a minor. She’d been employed with Miami-Dade County public schools for twenty years. Police were...

A Hialeah teacher was arrested Friday for allegedly engaging in inappropriate and abusive sexual behavior with multiple students over the course of several years.

Authorities say five South Florida inmates beat up an accused child killer as he slept because “of the nature of his pending charges.”

The man awaiting trial for the death of his adopted daughter was attacked by five inmates earlier this month.

A trial has been postponed until April for a former Franciscan friar accused of molesting students in the 1990s at a Catholic school in Mississippi.

Authorities in Tampa say a man and woman are accused of handcuffing a young boy and locking him in a closet for hours each day as a form of punishment

A Florida waitress who noticed bruises on an 11-year-old boy flashed him a handwritten note asking him if he needed help, and when he nodded yes, she called the police, authorities said. “Do you need help?” the note said. Orlando police credited Flaviane Carvalho, a waitress at Mrs. Potato Restaurant, with coming to the boy’s aid on New Year’s...

A Florida waitress noticed an 11-year-old boy with bruises and thought something was wrong. Orlando police say her quick actions may have saved the boy from more danger.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been hit with several lawsuits for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state’s end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue

In a candid Instagram post, Jacob Roloff claims he was molested by a former “Little People, Big World” field producer.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said there needs to be a “sense of urgency” in working toward the end of child labor globally.

A 47-year-old Florida woman avoided a first-degree murder charge by pleading guilty to felony aggravated manslaughter in the starvation death of her 13-month-old daughter

A woman was arrested Tuesday in Homestead after she allegedly attacked her daughter following an argument about Instagram.