Child abuse

An Illinois daycare employee has been charged with child endangerment for allegedly placing a 4-year-old boy in a freezing alley and a trash can as punishment.

Four family members are behind bars after authorities discovered two young children left strapped down in a car seat and swing for days in horrific conditions.

A mother and stepfather have been arrested in connection with the death of a toddler who died during an alleged attempt to "teach" him how to swim.

An Australian woman has been arrested and charged for allegedly poisoning her infant child, then pretending that the child had a severe illness in order to boost social media attention.

Children's author Jennifer Wolfthal and her husband pleaded guilty to years of child abuse. They now face jail time while her publisher halts book promotion.

A Florida mom was arrested with drugs in her purse after parkgoers contacted police because she abandoned her son for misbehaving.

An Ohio woman has been arrested after she allegedly left her two young children by themselves in a car as temperatures outside dropped, officials say.

A former NICU nurse in Virginia has been charged with malicious wounding and child abuse after multiple premature babies suffered unexplained fractures.

An Ohio couple was sentenced to a combined 28 years in prison after disturbing footage showed them abusing their five adopted sons with special needs.

A Washington mother was arrested trying to flee to Canada after she was charged with trying to kill her 17-year-old daughter.

A 1-month-old baby spent Christmas with Child Protective Services after his parents left him in his car seat on the median of a busy road because of a dispute.

The parents of a Colorado infant have been arrested after they allegedly left their one-month-old baby boy unattended in a car seat on the median of a road.

A Georgia couple has been sentenced to 100 years in prison for sexually abusing their adopted sons and producing child pornography.

A Texas woman has been arrested and taken into custody after she reportedly disciplined a little girl by duct-taping the child's mouth shut and locking her into a dog cage under her Christmas tree.

Cloe Workman, 20, who sent the video to the child's father, was charged with misdemeanor child endangering and domestic violence

A Houston mother faces child injury charges after allegedly assaulting and neglecting her two young children.

A former Texas high school teacher allegedly invited a student who was homeless to live with her and then sexually assaulted him multiple times, going as far as to tattoo his name onto her body, officials say.

A parent is under arrest after allegedly storming into a North Carolina high school and assaulting a student in the hallway, authorities report.

A father and stepmother received life sentences for the brutal murder of their 10-year-old, who child protective services failed to protect from years of abuse.

A Virginia man accused of conspiring with his au pair to murder his wife and another man has now been charged with felony child abuse and neglect.

The middle school teacher and football coach can be seen lifting a sixth grader up by his shirt and throwing him across the classroom in a viral video that has unsettled viewers.

A Tennessee woman has been arrested after posting a video of her kicking an infant child in the head to social media, officials say.

A British man asked why his partner would leave him alone with her baby after learning put up cameras because she had concerns he was harming her son.

The couple said a prayer then performed the at-home circumcision before they rushed to a nearby hospital.

A California dad is accused of breaking his 1-month-old baby's skull while the child's mother was sleeping.

Catherine Guziejka was arrested after surveillance footage showed her kicking six toddlers in their lower backs than 100 times over the course of four months.

A young Texas mother has finally been brought into custody after she left her infant child at home unsupervised, while she went on a date 150 miles away.

A 21-year-old gym teacher at a special needs school in England was sentenced to three months in prison for putting two students in headlocks and for drawing a penis on a third student's face.

Filipino authorities transferred an accused child rapist to a children's hospital in in Quezon City in order to administer medical tests requiring special equipment, officials say.

An 11-year-old girl in Boulder, Colorado, escaped a kidnapping attempt by hitting her assailant with a tree branch in self-defense, according to law enforcement.