Police: Birthday cake beating followed week of handcuffing
A 9-year-old boy who was fatally beaten over a missing birthday cake had been handcuffed for up to three hours a day for a week before the deadly assault, according…
Child abuse
US archbishop quits after archdiocese charged with cover-up
By NICOLE WINFIELD Pope Francis has started making good on his promise to not let even the most senior churchmen get away with sex abuse or cover-up. On Monday, he…
Child sex abuse claims shake UN as revelations continue
By CARA ANNA The boys said they approached the French soldiers because they were hungry. Some were so young they didn’t quite understand the acts the soldiers demanded in return.…
Sentencing for man who kept 4 sons in filthy home
A father whose four young sons could communicate only in grunts when authorities rescued them from a filthy Denver apartment faces up to seven years in prison when he’s sentenced…
IMPACT: Abused children die as authorities fail to protect
By HOLBROOK MOHR and GARANCE BURKE At least 786 children died of abuse or neglect in the U.S. in a six-year span in plain view of child protection authorities —…
Ohio senators pass lethal injection drug bill
By ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS Ohio lawmakers on Thursday rushed to pass a lethal injection law meant to restart executions even as prosecutors who want a condemned child killer executed in February…
UN COMMITTEE BLASTS VATICAN ON SEX AB– USE, ABORTION
By NICOLE WINFIELD Kirsten Sandberg, center, chairperson of the U.N. human rights committee on the rights of the child, talks to committee members Maria Herczog, right, and Benyam Mezmur during…
EDUCATOR CHARGED WITH SEXUAL AB– USE IN YOUTUBE CASE
A woman who wanted to be identified by her first name, Brianna, is led away by her attorney, Luis Carrillo, right, after a news conference in Pasadena, Calif., Thursday, Jan.…