The West Virginia Center for Children’s Justice hosted the event Friday night.
ODESSA, Texas (KMID/KPEJ)- April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, and raising awareness of child abuse in the local area is critical for the prevention of this ongoing issue. “I don't think a lot of people realize how prevalent child abuse is in the Permian basin," said Odessa Harmony Home Prevention Director, Amanda Allen. “In 2023 the []
A Youngstown man was indicted Thursday by a Mahoning County grand jury on charges that could carry a life sentence for the rape of a young child.
President Marcos wants the elimination of online sexual abuse and exploitation of children to be his legacy as he regards the crime, whose youngest victim in the country is a three-month-old infant, as “unFilipino,” the Department of Justice said yesterday.
TOPEKA (KSNT) - The Shawnee County District Attorney's Office held a fundraiser for children who've been abused. The fundraiser benefits the LifeHouse Child Advocacy Center. Participants could buy water balloons to throw at Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay. Money raised by selling balloons goes towards the cause. KSNT News spoke to Kagay about his []
In Johnson County, Kansas, two people are now charged in the murder of a child and abuse of a another. Both behind bars on a $1 million.
The city of Santa Cruz held a memorial flag-raising ceremony in honor of National Child Abuse Prevention Month.
The city of Springfield honored the young lives lost to violence, abuse and neglect.
Curtis Webb, 33, of Jena was arrested Thursday and charged with 13 counts of possession of child pornography and 100 counts of sexual abuse of animals, according to Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Cyber Crime Unit.
A 46-year-old cab driver from Northern Westchester will spend more than a decade in prison for grooming and sexually abusing a young girl for nearly a year, officials announced. Peekskill resident Luis Urgiles was sentenced to 16 years in state prison for engaging in sexual conduct with a young girl, the Westchester County District Attorney's Office announced on Tuesday, April 23. According to the DA's Office, Urgiles, a cab driver in Peekskill, met the victim's family when they were...
Carl Jones, 57, of Little Hulton, Salford, has been charged with multiple sexual offences
LAS VEGAS (KLAS) - A case of child abuse in Henderson is spotlighting the importance of the work Clark County School District truancy officers do each day. Jeffery Scanlan, 41, and Misty Scanlan, 46, are each facing one charge of child abuse and are accused of locking their 11-year-old boy in a cage, according to []