TRENTON — New Jersey's child welfare system, which was wracked with problems over the years, appears to be improving its training and supervision of caseworkers but still needs to work on services to ...

IRVINGTON — Four times between March 2006 and April 2008, anonymous tipsters called the state child abuse hotline to report that a woman in their Irvington neighborhood was screaming at her three ...

Escobar v. DYFS: $166M for Failure To Protect Child A New Jersey jury's award of $166 million to an infant beaten to the point of permanent blindness and brain damage, by a parent that the state ...

With foster parents adopting more children in the Garden State, the Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS) is in the midst of an apparent turnaround. Due to terms of a federal lawsuit, DYFS was ...

TRENTON >> A sexually abused victim is suing the state’s child protection division for punitive damages, alleging she suffers from post-traumatic stress as a victim of Lamont King’s alleged misconduct ...