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The life of a wheel-chair bound Carnival cruise passenger was saved by two men after she fell from a dock in the Virgin Islands Monday morning. 

An 11-year-old Fort Worth boy accidentally fell onto the post of an iron fence he was climbing and died from being impaled, police say.

A terrifying video shows the moment a five-year-old boy riding a Ferris wheel in east China Monday slipped through the bars of the cabin window, dangling 130 feet above the ground.

A suspect tried to steal a car with a five-year-old sitting in it and was subsequently shot and killed by the child’s father.

A Florida mother accused of killing her two-year-old son initially told authorities he had been abducted before admitting to investigators she hit the toddler before leaving him in the woods, police said.

“Society is continuously changing and family structures are changing along with it,” wrote Justice Robert Fowler of the Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court’s family division in his decision, reports the Canadian Press. “This must be recognized as a reality and not as a detriment to the best interests of the child.”

Authorities have issued an AMBER Alert for a seven month old girl reportedly abducted by an armed sex offender at a gas station in Virginia early Monday morning, police said.

A Richmond, Indiana, man has been charged with the alleged sexual molestation of a girl since she was five years old, police say.

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Supreme Court declined Friday to hear an appeal from a mother and father who want to take their terminally ill toddler to Italy for treatment instead of allowing a hospital to remove him from life support.

A Canadian couple may be finding themselves on the opposite side of the law for live-streaming the moment they tied up an alleged child sex predator, according to a report.

Authorities arrested an Arizona mother Thursday after discovering that she fed her daughter macaroni and cheese laced with THC, police said.

Nearly 200 children between the ages of 12 to 18 are currently being held on terror charges in Turkey.

A judge allowed a man convicted of raping a woman when she was 12 years old to have joint custody of her child despite being convicted of raping another child in a separate incident.

A California woman has allegedly abandoned her child in a grocery store, police say.

A Pennsylvania daycare worker is facing charges after video captured the worker pushing a four-year-old girl down a flight of stairs.

A Democrat state representative in Texas has pre-filed a bill that would give Child Protective Services (CPS) a longer response window for both the highest priority and second highest priority cases after a report of abuse or neglect.

The three top political leaders in Texas have ordered Child Protective Services to take action to protect children in the state after reports surfaced that the most vulnerable were left unattended.

The embattled state agency that is responsible for safeguarding the lives of children is suffering from more bad news.

Former Pittsburg, California mayor Marcelino Vasquez — a convicted sex offender — was arrested outside a school last week for the third time in five months.

A Florida woman is behind bars after police charged her with killing her 3-year-old son and stuffing his body in a suitcase.

On Wednesday afternoon, a 4-year-old girl playing in a sandbox at a North Park playground in San Diego was sliced by sharp blades, according to police.

Minors caught up in sex trafficking will not longer be counted as suspects, but as victims in cases handled through the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Search crews discovered a small plane crashed in the woods of southwest Kentucky and four dead Friday after a distressed seven-year-old girl showed up at a nearby residence asking for help, telling the resident she had survived the accident.