I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

Four people have alleged in a lawsuit that they were sexually abused decades ago while in Baltimore City’s foster care system. The lawsuit against Baltimore City and Jewish Community Services says the ...

A South Dakota woman is suing the State of Iowa for allegedly placing her in a foster home with a convict who sexually assaulted her.

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has agreed to pay $9 million to a woman who alleges that she was abused in her childhood foster home. The ...

The police urgently removed five children from a family home in Zuid-Holland last month after a report of possible abuse, the ...

Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual, physical, and mental abuse. For Ashley Miller, the hardest part about the sexual, physical, and mental abuse she suffered during her ...

YORK, Pa. (WHTM) – The 2024 Child Protective Services Report released in July of 2025, showed child abuse reports in York County had the second-highest number of substantiated cases in the state. The ...

A class-action child abuse settlement set to make major changes to Oregon’s foster care system must consider the needs of hundreds of foster youth who still live with their birth parents, a federal ...