RIVERSIDE CO., Calif -- Six of the 13 Turpin siblings who were rescued in 2018 from a life of captivity in their parents' Perris, California, home have filed a lawsuit against Riverside County and the ...

The number of impoverished Rhode Island children removed from their homes in 2023 was 34.8 per 1,000, more than twice the national average of 16.3, according to an analysis by the National Coalition ...

POLK COUNTY, Iowa (Iowa Capital Dispatch) - A South Dakota woman is suing the State of Iowa for allegedly placing her in a foster home with a convict who sexually assaulted her. Mikalla Starr Winkel, ...

For years, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson said, six foster children in the Victorville home of Kenneth and Tina Key suffered from physical and emotional abuse. Finally, one day ...

A second foster mother this summer has been charged with abusing a child in her care. The foster mother, Johnnie Denise Douma, 47, is facing one count of child abuse after an exam showed the ...

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 ...

Two months after it was first requested, the Illinois Department of Children Family Services released a timeline of involvement with a Fairview Heights foster child who died in the agency’s care.

Kourtney Eutsey is escorted through the Fayette County Courthouse Friday for her preliminary hearing on homicide and abuse charges. The Fayette County foster parents charged in the death of 9-year-old ...

A class-action child abuse settlement set to make major changes to Oregon’s foster care system must consider the needs of hundreds of foster youth who still live with their birth parents, a federal ...

The costs of a compromised foster care system, and some possible solutions In this series, I have talked about the paradox of the foster care system, the problems inherent in the system, and the real ...

Michigan's Department of Health and Human Services wants to be freed from federal oversight over its foster care system by next summer, despite continuing problems with handling abuse and neglect ...

BOISE (Idaho Capital Sun) — Programs in Idaho that support foster children have unique challenges across the regions, but lately, nearly all of them are reporting the same problem — children seem to ...