The Walker County Children's Advocacy Center (WCCAC) in Jasper is promoting many events and initiatives for Child Abuse Prevention Month in April.

Most perpetrators aren't jet-set millionaires. "Dad, cousin, uncle, boyfriend. That is the primary perpetrator. That is where we need to focus our energies," says one local expert.

Lagos State government in collaboration with CeCe Yara has launched a new protocol for investigating and interview protocols for child sexual abuse. The launch of the 41-page document, “The Lagos ...

Diamond Brockett, an expert at the River Valley Child Advocacy Center in Clarksville, offers some insight on the process.

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According to data from the Missouri Children’s Division, about 68,000 cases of child abuse are reported each year in the ...

We must confront the myths that keep child abuse hidden and prevent children from getting the help they need ...

Editor's note: This story contains information about suspected child abuse. If you know or suspect that anyone under 18 is being sexually or physically abused, call the Texas child abuse hotline at ...

Hancock County Deputy Prosecutor Aimee Herring speaks during the recent training. Photo provided. Making sure vulnerable children are comfortable and able to share horrific and even tragic events in ...

Visitors to the Gateway Center in Helena this week might have overheard some rather large children speaking of their toys, their families and maybe about being abused. The children, it turns out, were ...

Prosecutors will be allowed to play the statements of ex-ECSO deputy Christopher Turney's three kids in front of a jury ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Quincy Mayor Thomas Koch made inflammatory comments about homosexuality and the Catholic Church child sexual abuse scandal while ...