child abuse

Clergy in 33 states are exempt from laws requiring professionals such as teachers, physicians and psychotherapists to report information about alleged child abuse to police or child welfare officials.

It was Jan. 17, 2020. Police responded to a call about a boy who had fallen in the driveway of his family’s home on Long Island. When cops arrived, the child’s father, an NYPD officer, was performing CPR on him in the basement. The boy died. He was 8. His name was Thomas Valva. In the days after his death,…

It was Jan. 17, 2020. Police responded to a call about a boy who had fallen in the driveway of his family’s home on Long Island. When cops arrived, the child’s father, an NYPD officer, was performing CPR on him in the basement. The boy died. He was 8. His name was Thomas Valva. In the days after his death,…

Warning: The details in this story are graphic and disturbing. Police have arrested a Naugatuck man who is accused of making his child eat his own feces while being locked in a closet as punishment and other forms of child abuse. Back in May, police said they learned of additional allegations that stemmed from a child abuse case investigated by…

Today police arrested a Bronx mom and her teenage son for the murder of 7-year-old girl Julissia Batties. Melissa Colorado reports.

Julissia’s mother and brother have been charged with murder with depraved indifference in her death, while the girl’s brother is also accused of sexual abuse. She was only 7 when she died.

A New Jersey family is suing their school district after claiming that their 7-year-old child was beaten by a school employee. Checkey Beckford reports.

A Long Island man has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing eight young children who were enrolled at the unlicensed day care his wife ran from their home, the district attorney said.

A South Carolina mother accused of killing her three-year-old foster child has been convicted of homicide by child abuse.

A New Jersey family is suing Newark Public Schools, claiming their 7-year-old child was beaten on an elementary school campus and pushed down a flight of stairs in an attack not done by a student or classmate — but by a school employee

Police are looking for a sexual predator who forced a 13-year-old boy to an unknown location at knifepoint and attacked him earlier this week, authorities say. The boy was walking near Rockaway Parkway and Winthrop Street shortly before 4 p.m. Monday when cops say the stranger engaged him in conversation. The suspect then told the boy he had a knife…

Police are looking for a sexual predator who forced a 13-year-old boy to an unknown location at knifepoint and attacked him earlier this week, authorities say.

A New York City schoolteacher is facing multiple criminal charges after allegedly choking a 12-year-old student, police said Friday. Chester Hingle, 45, is charged with endangering the welfare of a child and criminal obstruction of breathing. He was arrested Thursday. According to the NYPD, the incident happened at I.S. 217 School of the Performing Arts on Fox Street in the…

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A 6-month-old boy was badly hurt but is expected to survive after his mother allegedly dropped him from a second-floor balcony in Brooklyn, then woke up the infant’s father to tell him what she had done, authorities said Thursday. Police were called about the incident at a multi-family home on 51st Street around 4 a.m. The baby was said...

The parents of an 8-year-old Bronx boy who was allegedly starved and beaten before his death have been charged with murder and manslaughter in the heart-wrenching case.

A 22-year-old man who allegedly attacked two law officers, biting one of them and escaping when they tried to cuff him a day ago was captured Wednesday in Yonkers and will head to Pennsylvania to face sex crime charges in the toddler twins’ case. Isaiah Metz, also known as Decklyn McBride, had an outstanding Pennsylvania warrant out for him that…

A 22-year-old man has been arrested for assaulting two NYPD officers, including biting one, while they attempted to arrest him Tuesday morning before eventually breaking free, police said.

A federal employee in New Jersey is facing charges that he used his government-issued computer to collect and store dozens of extreme images of child pornography, including the abuse of toddlers. John Struble, 63, of Fair Lawn, was employed by the Environmental Protection Agency when the EPA alerted the Department of Homeland Security last September to child porn on his…

The parents of an apparently severely malnourished 8-year-old Bronx boy who died nearly 10 months ago have been arrested on murder, manslaughter and aggravated manslaughter charged in his death, authorities say. Little Joseph Barney was discovered by his mother unconscious at their 214th Street apartment on June 1, officials have said. His mother brought him, unresponsive, to a hospital, where…