Margie Quin, commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services, photographed on June 2, 2023. (Photo: John Partipilo) A three-year-old boy shot himself in the head after getting ahold of his father’s unsecured Ruger 9 mm semi-automatic handgun. A 4-year-old girl was discovered stuffed in a trash can, dead. And a 3-month-old infant was found […]
North Carolina children experience more than twice as much neglect as physical and sexual abuse, and poverty is a big risk factor, child welfare advocates say. But the solutions are not simple. In 2022, over 400,000 N.C. children under the age of 18 lived below the federal poverty line, or about 17%, according to the […]
Over 100,000 North Carolina children wake up to violence, substance abuse and neglect every day, often because their parents are struggling to meet basic needs. Those who catch the attention of Child Protective Services find a system also in crisis, with too little staff to provide urgently needed services and not enough foster homes where […]
Over 100,000 North Carolina children wake up to violence, substance abuse and neglect every day, often because their parents are struggling to meet basic needs. Those who catch the attention of Child Protective Services find a system also in crisis, with too little staff to provide urgently needed services and not enough foster homes where […]
Shelly Douthit-Delcour Mugshot provided by the Ottawa County Sheriff’s Office MIAMI, Okla. — Tuesday, a judge ruled there is enough evidence against a former day care worker accused of taking pornographic photographs of toddlers and sending them to her lover, to go to trial. Shelly Douthit-Delcour, 43, of Fairland, is charged in Ottawa County District […]
GREEN BAY – A Green Bay man was convicted Monday of neglecting a child in connection to the 2022 fentanyl overdose death of his 17-month-old son. At a hearing Monday, Derrick Young, Jr. pleaded no contest to one count of neglecting a child where the consequence is death. The mother of the child, Tyana Putzlocker, […]
A 44-year-old woman in San Bernardino County was arrested on child abuse charges just hours after investigators said she left her three young children alone for hours while she smoked cocaine at another location. The ordeal began May 31 when deputies with the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department conducted a welfare check at a short-term […]
A company that bred beagles for medical research agreed Monday to pay a record $35 million as part of a criminal plea admitting it neglected thousands of dogs at its breeding facility in rural Virginia. Prosecutors said the penalties amount to the largest ever levied in an animal-welfare case. The plea deal also bars the […]
COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL)— The Columbus woman accused of neglecting her child during a medical emergency made her first court appearance Monday morning. Emily Henry was arrested Friday, May 31 in connection to an incident that occurred May 3. Police say Henry was aware her 1-year-old son was lethargic, vomiting, and experiencing seizures; however, she is […]
A teacher at an Indianapolis elementary school is accused of orchestrating and filming a fight between two 6-year-old boys inside a classroom, according to court documents. Julious Johnican is facing a charge of neglect of a dependent, a level 6 felony, and is accused of failing to intervene in an altercation that occurred between the […]
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania lawmakers want Gov. Josh Shapiro’s Department of Aging to disclose more about the shortcomings it finds when it evaluates whether county-level agencies are properly investigating complaints about the abuse or neglect of older adults. The effort comes as Republican state lawmakers have pressed Shapiro’s administration to do more to investigate the deaths […]
Police are searching a landfill site in California for the body of a missing 3-week-old baby, after his mother was arrested on child abuse charges in Utah. Detectives with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department were combing through waste at the Antelope Valley landfill in Palmdale, north of Los Angeles, on Tuesday in the hope […]