Last week, the West Virginia Child Advocacy Network released its annual statewide data report for the 2024 fiscal year.

"I happen to be a tax-and-spend liberal," says Richard Wexler, "but this bill provides not one iota of additional help." ...

A disturbing wave of crimes against children across multiple states has sparked renewed concerns about child safety and ...

A historically troubled agency in West Virginia could be seeing a big change, a change local attorneys welcome for the ...

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) – A man was convicted on Wednesday of five counts of felony sexual abuse against a child relative in ...

Officials say in 2021, the child told school staff about 35-year-old Paul Thomas Cheatham's abuse. Staff reported it to Child ...

Nassau County has hired another batch of former law enforcement officials to investigate reports of child abuse and neglect for the Department of Social Services, an effort intended to relieve ...

A judge in West Virginia has ordered the new chief of a state agency and several of his subordinates to be assigned as Child Protective Services workers.

New York City child welfare agencies routinely investigate parents who report being abused, but a state appellate court ruled ...

National, state and local data show that our crime and child safety problems are driven largely by addiction and mental ...

HARRISVILLE, W.Va. (WCHS) — A circuit court judge is ordering officials with the West Virginia Department of Human Services ...

Attorneys for Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital filed an appeal in the "Take Care of Maya" case, arguing they didn't receive a fair trial.