child neglect

A woman has been arrested after two young children were left in a car that caught fire while she was allegedly shoplifting in Oviedo, Florida, on May 26.

An Oklahoma mother was sentenced on Thursday to 30 years in prison for starving her eight-year-old son, WKRC reported.

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said the 6.5-pound newborn baby girl was left for dead on a 50-degree night, roughly an hour after her birth.

A 27-year-old woman has been arrested following a South London house fire that killed four children.

An Indiana school bus driver lost her job and is facing criminal charges after a video surfaced of her letting a few students take the wheel, according to multiple reports.

A Michigan mother charged with killing her baby by neglect allegedly told police she was “just too busy” to feed and care for the child.

A West Virginia woman succumbed to the injuries she suffered after her boyfriend allegedly set her on fire last month.

An Oklahoma woman and her boyfriend are accused of forcing the woman’s 11-year-old brother to smoke methamphetamine.

A woman who allegedly lost her children due to charges of prostitution and illegal drug use has been ordered not to get pregnant again by a New York family court judge.

Child Protective Services advocates and the commissioner that heads the agency think they have come up with one solution for the problems that are plaguing Texas. Their solution is to focus on prevention programs, including home visits.

Two Texas House hearings have been held to address nightmares with the Texas Child Protective Services agency. During one of those hearings, a state representative who was chairman of the committee, angrily shut-out a discussion of the due process and other constitutional rights of parents.

A couple from Layland, West Virginia, have been arrested and charged with trying to sell their own baby for drugs, a report reveals.

A California man has been arrested and charged with leaving his infant girl alone in a car in the parking lot of a local strip club while he enjoyed lap dances inside.

The body of a 2-year-old girl was found in a burnt-out apartment in Brooklyn, killed by a fire started after the child’s mother allegedly left her home alone.

A drunk Wisconsin couple was caught by police allegedly allowing their nine-year-old daughter to drive them home in their pickup truck to avoid getting stopped for drunk driving.

Seven investigators in a Missouri Crimes Against Children police unit are suspended pending an investigation into whether they failed to investigate cases where children were sexually assaulted in a timely manner.

Police in Arizona made a shocking discovery in a closet in the apartment of a Hispanic couple when a three-year-old girl was found malnourished, bound in duct tape, and stuffed into a cloth bag.

A pair of Oklahoma women have been arrested for allegedly beating and torturing a five-year-old boy so badly that he has had two strokes since being placed in the hospital.

A 26-year-old man from Newport News, Virginia, was arrested for allegedly abandoning his own baby in the middle of a busy street where the child was almost hit by an SUV, police report.

The Houston Chronicle notes that “Texas law doesn’t say how old is old enough for kids to be left alone,” but unnamed “authorities” warn that “inadequate supervision puts children at risk.” Yes, and inadequate common sense puts innocent people at risk. I guess you could say the Nanny State is practicing what it preaches, as it frets about leaving its child-citizens inadequately supervised. No wonder helicopter parenting is mandated.