UPDATE: The young girl seen on video outside in freezing temperatures without a jacket or shoes last week has been removed from the home of her foster parents. Don Smolen, the attorney for the girl’s ...

Content warning: This story contains descriptions of child sexual, physical, and mental abuse. For Ashley Miller, the hardest part about the sexual, physical, and mental abuse she suffered during her ...

PIERCE COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) has agreed to pay $9 million to a woman who alleges that she was abused in her childhood foster home. The ...

Washington state to pay $9 million in foster care abuse settlement case DSHS failed to detect or act on abuse, missing visits and background checks Lawsuit shows gaps in oversight of foster placements ...

The state will pay $9 million to a Portland woman who said she was abused for years as a child in Washington’s foster care system, adding to the growing number of payouts related to sexual assault in ...

Illinois 18-year-old Mackenzi Felmlee was tortured and, in May 2024, killed by her long-term foster parents. A year later, after the state issued criminal charges, it was revealed that Mackenzi had ...

When foster youth act out, whether through tantrums, withdrawal, or defiance, society too often labels them as “problem kids.” Teachers may see them as disruptive, caregivers describe them as ...

TOMS RIVER ― A Point Pleasant man, whose residence was being utilized as a foster home, took nude images of the children in the family’s care, using cameras hidden in their bedrooms, said Ocean County ...

Two children who disappeared from their foster home in the early hours of Thursday morning have been found, the Los Angeles Police Department said Sunday. When the brothers — a 10-year-old and a ...

I've spent over four decades in courtrooms watching an American tragedy continue to unfold. Children—some barely old enough to speak—face the traumas of abuse, neglect, removal from their natural ...

LAWRENCE, Kansas (KMBC) — A child’s slumber party ended in commotion when an unknown naked man broke into the home in the middle of the night. Officers with the Lawrence, Kansas, Police Department ...