Child Abuse and Safety

1+ hour, 32+ min ago   (350+ words) Warning: This story contains content that may be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is advised. A Winnipeg man is facing numerous charges after an investigation into an international child exploitation operation, according to police. A 50-year-old Winnipeg man was arrested…...

6+ hour, 11+ min ago   (133+ words) October 9, 2026 9:03 AM / Staff Report An Aurelius woman was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after deputies said she used her children to facilitate phone calls with a Cayuga County Jail inmate against whom the children had an order…...

1+ hour, 36+ min ago   (242+ words) Published 4:50 pm Friday, October 9, 2026 The Albemarle County Police Department (ACPD) has obtained nine additional charges against a 37-year-old Buckingham County man accused of sexually assaulting victims while employed as a staff member in that county’s school system. Michael J. Swiney,…...

3+ hour, 20+ min ago   (283+ words) During a hearing, defendant Shawn Stone entered no contest pleas to 24 felony charges, which included multiple counts of Aggravated Child Abuse, False Imprisonment and Tampering with a Witness in a Life Felony Proceeding. He was then sentenced to 45 years in…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (156+ words) MCCRACKEN COUNTY, Ky., (KBSI) – A 64-year-old McCracken County man faces 33 felony charges involving child sexual abuse material following an investigation by the McCracken County Sheriff’s Office. According to the sheriff’s office, detectives executed a search warrant at a McCracken County…...

8+ hour, 11+ min ago   (359+ words) Two Dillon residents have been arrested following an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse involving a child, according to the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office. On October 1, investigators with the Dillon County Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division and Violent Crime Task…...

1+ week, 10+ hour ago   (139+ words) Specifically, we found that 10 of the 70 screened out reports in our sample had been inappropriately screened out. In addition, 138 of the 140 accepted reports in our sample did not comply with requirements for immediate screening, risk and safety assessment, or investigation....

23+ hour, 10+ min ago   (163+ words) WASHINGTON (KATV) — An audit from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services found that Arkansas failed to appropriately respond to and investigate reports of child abuse and neglect. According to the September audit, Arkansas failed to meet federal response…...

37+ min ago   (468+ words) LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) — A September federal audit has found that Arkansas inappropriately handled thousands of reports of child abuse and neglect between 2023 and 2024. "Essentially, we have children who are crying out for help, saying that they are being abused,…...

1+ hour, 5+ min ago   (265+ words) Act 146 of 2006 went into effect on May 8, 2007. A provision of this law requires that the department prepare a non-identifying summary for the governor and the General Assembly of findings for each c... Quarterly Summaries of Child Fatalities/Near Fatalities Act 146 of…...