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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Iranian prosecutors opened criminal cases against six guards at the country's notorious Evin prison, the judiciary reported on Tuesday, after footage showing the widespread abuse of detainees ...

Two years ago, a Hillsborough County detective adopted a boy from Riverview who narrowly survived a traumatic, severely ...

New Scotland Yard said it will investigate after three players from the England football team received racial abuse ...

New figures show Indigenous children form a disproportionately large number of kids who have received child protection services, including ...

Commentary It's natural and normal to feel sadness and sympathy at the suffering of others and to want ...

Vulnerable teenagers placed in residential care under Victoria’s child protection service were subjected to violence in 2019-2020, with ...

A North Carolina couple, both previously divorced, first met each other at church, but had no intention of having ...

A 30-year-old man will face court charged with the sexual assault of a teenage girl more than a ...

SANTA ANA—Three gymnasts are suing an Aliso Viejo-based gym, alleging they were battered and emotionally abused by their ...

ROME—A former Vatican altar boy has testified that an older seminarian would come into his bed at night ...

GENEVA—The United States on Friday condemned China's abuse of ethnic and religious minorities, including what it called "crimes ...

A couple embarking on a tentative journey into fostering found themselves to become "new mommy and daddy" to ...

The Australian government has announced a $452.2 million raft of measures as an immediate response to the findings ...

AUSTIN, Texas—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was prepared to release three men convicted of sex offenses against children, ...

A Virginia couple have welcomed their baby nephew into their home after he faced alleged physical abuse at ...

Few things can be more damaging to family and self than drug addiction, and one New Zealand woman ...

A concerned waitress who came to the aid of an abused boy, sitting with his mom and stepdad ...

Fu Zhenghua, Deputy Director of Committee for Social and Legal Affairs in Political Consultative Conference, was recently reported ...

An Atlanta police officer has given straight from the heart after meeting a woman in need who is ...

An unplanned encounter with a 2-year-old led two Texas police officers to pull out all the stops for ...

Spanish police raided a farm and rescued 41 severely malnourished dogs after receiving a complaint from an animal ...

Birmingham City Council is cracking down on animal rights abusers with a new law that makes it illegal ...

As Orange County, California, experiences a surge in domestic violence calls related to the COVID-19 pandemic, locals are ...

This pony has lived locked up for a long time. Fortunately, kind people came just in time and ...

WASHINGTON—When Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) promised to “bring in 135 million people into Medicare for All at no ...

Before she was old enough to be called a “troubled teenager,” Phyllis McNeal was an alcoholic. She knew ...