A growing number of states are debating whether to alter their policies on summoning child protection officials if a student has excessive absences.

Prosecutors say five young children lived in hazardous conditions inside an Oconomowoc basement home. Karianne Lindsey and Christian Diaz now face five counts each of child neglect. A judge ordered no ...

JENNINGS COUNTY — Two North Vernon parents have been arrested on felony neglect charges involving their 8-month-old child. Detectives with the Jennings County Sheriff Office were notified by the ...

A 63-year-old in-home nurse accused of child neglect pled guilty on Monday and has been sentenced to a year in the Lee County Jail. Kelly Perrigo was arrested in February after an investigation was ...

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (WEAU) - One person is sentenced in a child neglect, abuse case. 28-year-old Mary Oram, or “Bentley,” was sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison followed by 5 years of extended ...

A 5-year-old boy in Louisiana died weighing just 19 pounds, a weight more typical of an infant than a kindergartner, after what investigators describe as prolonged and extreme neglect. Authorities say ...

FARGO — Two people charged last summer after an incident the year prior, in which emergency responders and police reported that their home's conditions were "not livable" for children, each pleaded ...

Debates about which types of authority figures should be mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect ended in one proposal ...

Is leaving your child home alone 'abandonment' in Georgia? Neglect? What age should kids reach before being allowed to stay home alone?

"Hansel and Gretel" by the brothers Grimm features an example of child neglect and child abuse Source: Wikimediacommons.org/Public Domain “…There was once more ...

The California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act (“CANRA”), Penal Code Sections 11164 et seq., designates certain positions at Santa Clara University to be Mandated Reporters of known or suspected ...

MARGATE, Fla. (WFLA) — The mother of a 10-year-old Florida girl who has been missing for months was arrested on Tuesday. Passha Davis, 34, remained in the Broward County Jail on Wednesday after being ...