'It's An Epidemic': Conference In Dallas Draws National Attention To Child Abuse
Making the world safer for children is the ultimate goal of a decades old conference in downtown Dallas this week.
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Making the world safer for children is the ultimate goal of a decades old conference in downtown Dallas this week.
A convicted child molester from Texas, who is on that state's 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list, could be in the Chicago area.
A woman who lives at a home where the body of a child was found buried had a young son who more than a decade ago was fatally beaten.
Skipper Glenn Crawley, 51, was taken into custody at the home where he was staying in Indiana.
David Sauceda Medina, 62, s wanted for indecency with a child/sexual contact and failure to comply with sex offender registration requirements.
A massage therapist who in 2012 flew to London before the Summer Olympics faces up to life in prison for sexually exploiting boys.
Police are searching for the man who sexually assaulted a teenager behind a business on the morning of July 18.
Eduardo Rafael Rodriguez, 63, was booked into the Garland jail Wednesday and faces a charge of indecency with a child by exposure.
Police in Dallas are searching for the mother of a newborn who was found on the ground next to a dumpster.
Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells.
David Turpin, 56, and Louise Turpin, 49, pleaded not guilty to more than 40 charges, including torture, false imprisonment, abuse of a dependent adult and child abuse.
Texas authorities have identified a dead child found washed ashore in South Texas last year, and accused his mother and her girlfriend of dumping his body.
Authorities have arrested a woman accused of leaving her 7-year-old son in a hot car while she allegedly shoplifted some makeup from a Houston-area Walmart.
An advocacy group says teens in Texas foster care are five times more likely to become pregnant than other girls statewide.
Prosecutors say a North Texas man who faked being a photographer and movie director to gain access to boys must serve 40 years in prison for molesting the children.
A congressman who represents Fort Hood has introduced legislation to change how authorities handle crimes including sexual assault that the children of service members commit on military bases.
Arrest affidavits and pictures from a shed where an infant was found dead detail the sad circumstances leading to her demise.
David and Louise Turpin have pleaded not guilty in Riverside County, California, to multiple counts of torture, child abuse and false imprisonment. The couple moved to California from near Fort Worth in 2011.
"Severe, emotional, physical abuse," Riverside County District Attorney Mike Hestrin said in announcing numerous charges against David Allen Turpin, 57, and Louise Anna Turpin, 49. "This is depraved conduct."
A 17-year-old girl called police after escaping from her family's home where she and her 12 brothers and sisters were locked up in filthy conditions, some so malnourished officers at first believed all were children even though seven are adults.
During a custody hearing Wednesday, a child abuse specialist testified that 3-year-old Sherin Mathews, who was found dead in a culvert in Richardson, showed signs of abuse.
Investigators say a San Antonio-area couple punished their three young children by forcing one to brush her teeth with cat feces, using a shock collar as punishment and beating them with a thorny switch.
The night before 1-year-old Amira Fleming died, she looked like her usual smiling self.
A 25-year-old man who taught at Southwest High School in Fort Worth was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on a federal child pornography charge.
A Texas doctor believes a modeling system that's successfully identified neighborhoods, streets and even specific businesses where shootings and other crimes are likely to occur can help stop child abuse and neglect before it happens.
