An Open Secret, the documentary about child sexual abuse, has debuted at Cannes. The film is directed by Amy Berg, who helmed Deliver us from Evil, a film about child abuse in the Roman Catholic Church and West of Memphis, a film about a miscarriage of justice.
Here’s your semi-regular update on how Scott Walker—Wisconsin governor and possible future president of the United States of America—is attempting to drag his state into the ground. In a recent budget proposal, Walker suggests removing $238,000 worth of funding to child advocacy centers, a move so depraved that even…
Stephen Collins, the man who played the firm but gentle father on 7th heaven, shoked the world when it came out that he'd exposed his genitals to at least three underage women. Now one woman, April Price, has come out to tell her story in a painful interview with The Daily Mail.
An intense and disturbing investigative piece published by the Arkansas Times alleges that State Representative Justin Harris, a devout Christian who also owns a religious preschool, gave away two little girls he and his wife had adopted six months before. The little girls were "re-homed" with a former teacher at the…
She's not like a regular mom, she's a cool mom—and that means if her kid's going to watch her fuck strangers after driving drunk, then so be it. Not that there's anything wrong with fucking strangers. It's the driving drunk and doing it in the presence of your kid that's going to be a cause for therapy.
Knox Grammar was once an elite boarding school in Sydney, Australia. Now, however, investigation into the school's history has revealed that teachers sexually assaulted students—and the school even honored a pedophile teacher with a plaque that read "he touched us all."
A new investigation from the Center for Investigative Reporting shows that Jehovah's Witness leaders explicitly discourage church elders from reporting child sexual abuse allegations to the police, or even to their own congregations. Candace Conti, who was repeatedly abused as a child, is now suing the church…
Last weekend, Christopher Lucas and Jennie Chang attended a wine tasting in Washington D.C. Their small children—a 2-and-a-half-year-old and a 22-month-old—were sleeping when the couple arrived at the restaurant, so the parents left the children in near-freezing conditions while they went inside.
A Chicago woman is facing criminal charges after her boyfriend beat her 16-month-old son to death.
The Florida authorities called the Dozier School for Boys a reformatory, a home for orphans or wayward boys who needed a little guidance. But the boys sent to the school called it Hell.
An Indiana father is facing a felony child neglect charge after his 15-year-old mentally disabled daughter was taken to a hospital by family members in a severely deteriorated state, weighing only 40 pounds. Jesus fuck.
A physical education teacher in Stockton, California, has been charged with a misdemeanor corporal injury to a child after attempting to force a 14-year-old student into a pool by dragging her.
For someone who's devoted years of his life to ensure children's health through decent school lunch programs, Jamie Oliver sure has an odd take when it comes to child abuse. The celebrity chef recently lamented (in jest, we hope) how sad it is that he, as a famous person, can't get away with beating his kids.
Adrian Peterson has already been indicted on charges he beat one of his children, and a new report from KHOU alleges that he beat another. KHOU reports the mother of a different four-year-old son of Peterson's filed a report with Child Protective Services because of a beating the Vikings running back gave the child.
Janet Killough Barreto, the only woman on the U.S. Marshals Service's 15 Most Wanted list, has been captured after evading authorities for five years.
A 39-year-old woman from Bristol, England has been jailed for three years after she was found guilty of abusing her son under the guise of giving him "sex lessons." What's even more disturbing is that this abuse was directed and orchestrated by the woman's partner, a man who watched the abuse over webcam.
George Gibbs sued The Sun after the newspaper published claims in 2011 that he was abusing and grooming young boys. Now, three years later, Gibbs has been sentenced to life in jail because it turns out those allegations were true.
Darren Keith Patrick was arrested on June 19th for helping his daughter. While the preceding sentence could cause some outrage (why would anyone arrest a father trying to help his child?), Patrick wasn't arrested for assisting his daughter in any traditional way. Instead, he held down another girl as his daughter beat…
23-year-old Port Charles, Florida resident Kayla Oxenham has been arrested for physically abusing her two 7 and 5-year-old children, including, most bizarrely, branding them with a hot stick so that they could have ice cream (??), and of course, so she she can keep track of them.
The Titusville Herald reports that two Pennsylvanian adults are going to court for allegedly tattooing an obscene term on a 12-year-old who was spending the night. Probably because they were all out of goodie bags. I hate when that happens.
