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A man accused of raping a child in Newark was arrested in Gainesville, Florida. The Newark Police Department said they began ...

Calls for an investigation came after Mata’s family said they had called child protective services multiple times before Mata ...

B AKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For the first time since Genesis Mata’s death, allegedly at the hands of her parents, the ...

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development.

During an hour-plus of testimony to the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, more than a dozen residents painted a grim ...

Police arrested a man after a years-long investigation into the repeated sexual abuse of a child under 13 in Newark. Daniel R. Shaffer, 43, was taken into custody in Florida and flown back to New York ...

During the past year, 12 children who had been the subject of reports of abuse or neglect to the state’s child protective services died, according to a report released Wednesday.

When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same events differently, but the sole and final decisionmaker is CPS.

Child Protective Services was already teetering under the weight of thousands of cases of child neglect and abuse, deep budget cuts and the discovery of more than 6,000 reports to the child-abuse ...

Amanda Neal, a child protective services investigator in Michigan, has noticed calls slow down during the coronavirus pandemic. She doesn’t take it as a good sign.