child abuse

A 56-year-old Brooklyn woman has been arrested for allegedly hitting a 2-year-old boy multiple times in the face on a subway in Harlem last weekend. Police said Friday that Elizabeth Galarza had been charged with assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child in the attack on the toddler on a northbound C train entering the 116th Street…

Police are looking for a person seen hitting a 2-year-old boy multiple times in the face on a subway in Harlem over the weekend, authorities say. The suspect and toddler were on a northbound C train entering the 116th Street station around 3 p.m. Saturday when witnesses saw the child being attacked. The toddler suffered redness to the face and…

A trial has been postponed until April for a former Franciscan friar accused of molesting students in the 1990s at a Catholic school in Mississippi.

A former employee of the New Jersey Department of Child Protection and Permanency pleaded guilty to producing child pornography on Thursday, according to the U.S. Attorney District of New Jersey. Authorities say 28-year-old Kayan Frazier was working at the child protection agency in 2019 when law enforcement officers received reports that Frazier was distributing images of child sexual abuse on…

The five-minute clip shows a man sitting in between the kids, screaming at them and even landing two closed-fist punched to the neck and face of one child, while grabbing and violently shaking the other by the hair

The five-minute clip shows a man sitting in between the kids, screaming at them and even landing two closed-fist punched to the neck and face of one child, while grabbing and violently shaking the other by the hair

The video is tough to watch: a man abusing two children in public at a Bronx subway station. Erica Byfield reports.

A 24-year-old woman has been arrested on multiple counts of assault and acting in a manner injurious to a child younger than 17 in connection with the death of a baby boy in midtown Manhattan over the weekend, authorities say. Cops responding to a 911 call of an unconscious infant in a room at the Candlewood Suites in Times Square,…

A Florida waitress noticed an 11-year-old boy with bruises and thought something was wrong. Orlando police say her quick actions may have saved the boy from more danger.

The vice president for Manhattanville Development at Columbia University has been arrested on aggravated sex assault and other charges for allegedly engaging in sex acts with a child younger than 13 in New Jersey, officials say. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Marcelo Velez, identified on Columbia’s website as its “point person on all aspects of development, design and construction” for the…

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has been hit with several lawsuits for allegedly covering up decades of sexual abuse among Boy Scout troops in Arizona, marking the latest litigation before the state’s end-of-year deadline for adult victims to sue

In a candid Instagram post, Jacob Roloff claims he was molested by a former “Little People, Big World” field producer.

Nobel Peace Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi said there needs to be a “sense of urgency” in working toward the end of child labor globally.

A 27-year-old Long Island woman has been arrested on child endangerment charges for allegedly leaving her 3- and 9-year-old kids in a parked car for about 30 minutes while she shopped in a mall. It was 37 degrees at the time — and the car wasn’t running. Suffolk County cops responding to a 911 call at the Smith Haven Mall…

Police are looking for a man they say lured a 12-year-old girl into a Bronx alleyway by snatching her phone, then forced her to perform a sex act, authorities said. A witness intervened and the man ran off. The girl was standing outside a building on Tiffany Street around 3 p.m. Sunday when the stranger approached her and grabbed her…

A 30-year-old high school teacher from New Jersey has been arrested after a 4-year-old child in his custody allegedly consumed pot — enough that the child had to be taken to a hospital, unable to stand. The child was taken to a hospital on Tuesday, officials said Friday. Medical tests indicated that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive compound in cannabis,…

Two men have been charged in the separate deaths of two children — a 3-year-old from Brooklyn and a 3-month-old in Manhattan — this week, the NYPD said Friday. In the most recent case, police say Jaylynn Evans, of Brooklyn, was pronounced dead at a hospital in Queens, where she had been brought unresponsive with no obvious signs of trauma….

A 31-year-old Bronx man has been indicted on murder, kidnapping and other charges for allegedly killing his girlfriend after holding her, the mother of his child and his toddler son hostage for 48 hours earlier this year, prosecutors announced Friday. Anthony Portis allegedly beat his girlfriend and the mother of his child for two days while his little boy was…

A 19-year-old New Jersey woman has been arrested for allegedly dumping her full-term newborn in a clothes hamper after giving birth, prosecutors said Tuesday. The child was later found dead. Kimberly Aponte, of Hackensack, is accused of aggravated manslaughter in the Aug. 21 overnight death of her child. Prosecutors say she had hidden her pregnancy from her family and managed…

People who were sexually abused as children will have more time to file legal claims under a new state law against individuals and public and private institutions after concerns that the pandemic was keeping survivors from coming forward. Advocates and survivors had been pressing for an extension of the Child Victims Act amid the shutdown and disruption caused by the…