#child-abuse

#child-abuse

Stacey Lee Snow, 53, pleaded not guilty earlier this month to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the 16-month-old girl, who authorities said was found unresponsive after she had been put down for a nap April 8. The Medical Examiner's Office concluded that the girl asphyxiated, and the report indicated she'd had her head wedged between a plastic cot placed on top of a portable crib and the crib railing.

Two young girls have been awarded over $30 million in damages after reaching a settlement Friday in a lawsuit over the death of their 11-year-old sister. According to the lawsuit, filed in San Diego County Superior Court, Arabella McCormack endured starvation and torture at the hands of her adoptive family before her death in 2022. Although the alleged abuse lasted for years, the lawsuit says that time after time, adults did nothing to save the three sisters from their torment.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of central Budapest on Saturday, marching to Prime Minister Viktor Orban's offices demanding his resignation over alleged child abuse in state-run juvenile institutions. The protesters, seen carrying soft toys and torches, were led by Orban's main challenger, Peter Magyar, who held a banner that said: "Let's protect children." The protesters walked across the Danube River, with many heading towards Orban's offices on Castle Hill.

Security camera footage from the centre showed the director of the Szolo Street juvenile detention centre kicking a boy in the head. Earlier this week, four staff members were taken into custody, and the government announced that it would place all such child facilities under direct police supervision. On Saturday, thousands of protesters walked through Budapest's frosty streets behind a banner reading Protect the children! and called on the government to take more action against the perpetrators.

In the last year a boy in Brandy Cooney's and Becky Hamber's care was alive, he and his brother were locked in their bedrooms for 18 hours, zip-tied into wetsuits, tube-like sleep sacks and hockey helmets, and surveilled on cameras, a Milton, Ont., court was told during Cooney's second day of testimony. Cooney underwent intense cross-examination Tuesday by assistant Crown attorney Monica MacKenzie.

At the Dec. 2 hearing, Commissioner Todd Olsen issued a protective order prohibiting Smith from any in-person, written or electronic contact with the children. When Smith asked the court to consider pretrial release, Olsen asked the state's opinion, and prosecutor Clifford Ross opposed the request unequivocally. "That's a hard no, your honor," Ross said. He directed the court to the probable cause declaration, citing safety concerns, and maintained that a no-bail warrant remained appropriate, given the severity of the allegations against Smith.

The Peace Officer Standards and Training Commission pulled Trooper Michael Gagnon's law enforcement certification Tuesday, a week after he was arrested and charged with domestic assault and battery and assault and battery on a child causing injury. The POST Commission suspension order directs Gagnon to surrender his agency-issued credentials and equipment, including his uniform, badge, firearm, cruiser, and Taser. A State Police spokesperson previously said Gagnon has been relieved of duty and suspended without pay.

By around 6 p.m. ET on Dec. 21, 2022, the court heard Monday, the boy seemed calmer, Brandy Cooney and Becky Hamber told a Halton Children's Aid Society (CAS) protection worker in an interview the next day. But when Cooney went to check on him, she found vomit everywhere and he was unresponsive, protection worker Faisel Modhi said in the witness box, referring to his notes from the interview.

destroyed every way I could become a functioning adult

My identity, my immediate family, my extended family, everything was erased,' says adoptee Ju-rye Hwang. Sydney, Australia Ju-rye Hwang grew up assuming her parents in South Korea were dead and that she was alone in the world after being adopted to North America at about six years of age. That was until a phone call from a journalist in Seoul turned her world upside down.

Miguel Adrian Gonzalez, 28, worked at schools, camps and after-school programs throughout the Los Angeles area, L.A. Police Department officials said in a statement on X. Arrested Friday by LAPD detectives and agents from Homeland Security Investigations, Gonzalez confessed to molesting boys whom he baby-sat and photographing their genitals, according to a complaint filed in federal court that charged him with possessing child pornography.

News broke recently that the body of 11-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia had been found buried in a storage container outside an abandoned house. Mimi's body was found more than a year after she'd allegedly died, reportedly following long-term abuse, including starvation and restraint as punishment. Mimi's mother, Karla Garcia, allegedly told her sister, Jackelyn Garcia, that the girl had died after she was starved for two weeks.

Could she be deceiving us now?

Police found the remains of 12-year-old Jacqueline "Mimi" Torres-Garcia in a plastic storage bin last Wednesday behind 80 Clark St. in New Britain, the Farmington Police Department said in a press release. Investigators determined Torres-Garcia likely died in the fall of 2024 while her family was living in Farmington. Evidence suggests she suffered "prolonged" physical abuse and malnourishment before she died, according to police. The girl's mother, Karla Garcia, 29, is charged with murder with special circumstances.

An investigation found that Lori A. Maricle, 31, locked the 6-year-old girl inside a closet and pushed a heavy wooden dresser in front of the door so she couldn't get out, police said. Maricle left the home for about an hour, leaving the girl confined in the dark closet. She also left two other children - a 2-year-old and a 7-month-old - unsupervised in the home, police said.

A creche worker who 'upended and forced' a 19-month-old boy in his care onto the floor leaving an outline of a large toy block on his head and cheek has been sentenced to three years in prison for assault.

Los Angeles county will pay $20m to the family of a four-year-old boy who was tortured to death by his parents six years ago in a case that brought scrutiny of the region's child welfare system. Noah Cuatro died in a hospital in 2019, days before his fifth birthday, after being found motionless at the family's apartment in Palmdale, north of LA. His parents, Jose Maria Cuatro Jr and Ursula Elaine Juarez, later pleaded no contest to murder and torture charges.

Footage from a police interview shows Lecka being confronted with CCTV evidence of her repeatedly pinching and hitting children aged between 10 months and two-years-old. Polish-born Lecka is seen fiddling with her hair and looking disinterested as she is told a boy appears to be crying on his mattress. A female police officer then abruptly stops the grilling to ask: Sorry, am I boring you? Lecka says: No, sorry, I'm listening.