Department of Children and Families

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A railroad engineer was in the middle of his overnight shift when he spotted twin 9-month-old babies alone near the tracks in Worcester, Massachusetts. Police responded around 12:15 a.m. Wednesday after the baby boys were found in the area of the railroad tracks near Cambridge Street and Kansas Street.

A mother and her boyfriend accused of taking her three kids from Waterbury during a Department of Children and Families supervised visit and leaving the country with them have been extradited back to Connecticut.

Video of a woman’s racist rant at a supermarket in East Haven is continuing to make rounds on the internet.

A Hamden Public Schools employee has resigned after she allegedly was caught on camera using racial slurs at a supermarket in East Haven on Friday.

A former New Jersey assistant family services worker who last year admitted to extorting sex from two women he was responsible for supervising during court-ordered child visits was sentenced to three years in prison, the state’s attorney general announced Friday.

Raymond Rosario turned himself in last month after video surfaced of the March 19th incident, showing him gabbing his 14-year-old daughter by the hair, hitting her with a belt and punching her in the face according to the police report.

A Massachusetts boy missing for two years has been found in Florida. Authorities say Matthew Hale was 3 years old when he was abducted by his biological mother in September 2016 after his biological father was granted full custody by courts in Massachusetts. The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children recently received an anonymous tip that Christina and Matthew...

A former New Jersey assistant family services worker accused of extorting sex from two women he was responsible for supervising during court-ordered child visits pleaded guilty to official misconduct, according to the state’s attorney general.

A Connecticut mother who withheld food from her autistic teenage son until he died weighing just 84 pounds was sentenced Tuesday to 11 years in prison.

Kimberly and James Snead talked about how the defendant was friendly with the Snead’s son, who asked them to house the suspect that was depressed, they say, after he lost his mother to pneumonia.

A 6-year-old Bridgeport, Connecticut, girl was found safe in Pennsylvania with her father after a multi-state Amber Alert and the father is suspected of stabbing and killing the girl’s 26-year-old mother and assaulting the woman’s friend, according to police.

The mother of a newborn baby boy who was found abandoned behind a Danbury grocery store on Sunday walked into the police station Friday morning.

A 3-year-old girl was found living alone with her dead mother in their Connecticut apartment Wednesday, and police say she had nothing to eat for days except cereal that had spilled on the floor.

The mother of a 2-year-old Miami girl believed to have been missing since November told a judge the girl died, according to a new report.

Two southwest Florida parents are facing child abuse charges after authorities say they used a stun gun to discipline their children.

Police say a 6-month-old girl was found alive in a car with a dead man and a woman.

A Sarasota mother and father have been arrested after police say authorities discovered the parents were beating and not feeding their three children.

Police in Connecticut’s capital city have arrested two men in connection with the kidnapping of an 18-year-old who was held against her will and sexually and physically abused for almost a month, authorities said.

Police have arrested a mother and father from Sarasota, Florida, accused of routinely restraining their 12-year-old daughter with zip ties and keeping her confined to a “playhouse” with no access to a bathroom.