The case out of the Bronx is the kind that makes even seasoned cops and neighbors stop in their tracks. Prosecutors say a mother kept her twin sons locked inside their apartment for most of their ...

A commonly found link between animal and child abuse is what has inspired SB115, sponsored by Sen. Jen Plumb, D-Salt Lake City, this legislative session.

Child sexual abuse cases involving female perpetrators are confronting and distressing. When these cases make the news, they ...

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a dismissal of the lawsuit, in which a mother accused the now-closed Arizona school ...

The suit was jointly filed by the ACLU, NAACP, the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs, Mayer ...

Understanding how to help victims of gender-based violence is crucial for building safer families, communities, and societies ...

The conditions in New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services’ secure youth prisons are deeply troubling.

A former Hiawatha woman grew up in an isolated, lonely environment where years of being molested by her father remained ...

Erzurum Dumlu No. 2 Penal Institution, one of Turkey’s high-security prisons referred to as “well-type” facilities by prisoners and rights advocates, continues to face serious allegations of rights ...

Emotional abuse is a quiet, frequently unrecognized and therefore unnamed, form of abuse that can, nevertheless, have devastating consequences for the abused. Further, emotional abuse can lead to and ...

As teens spend less time with their friends in person, scientists are beginning to uncover how isolation may affect the developing “social brain." Here’s what we know—and when parents should be ...