Author: Claudia Flores We talk a lot about protecting children. We want to protect them from violence in our neighborhoods and schools. We want to protect them from abuse and neglect in our institutions and homes. But what happens when the kids are not our kids? Do we...
Author:Joshua PeaseThe Washington Post Rachael Denhollander’s college-aged abuser began grooming her when she was 7. Each week, as Denhollander left Sunday school at Westwood Baptist Church in Kalamazoo, Michigan, he was there to walk her to her parents’...
Author:Alison BowenContact Reporter Getting elbowed in the stomach. Being lifted by the neck. Getting kicked in the ribs. These are all things the American Civil Liberties Union says immigrant children who crossed the border alone experienced while in custody of U.S....
Author:Becky Jacobs Two Griffith parents were arrested after a 10-month-old boy was “repeatedly abused” and had nearly three dozen rib fractures and hemorrhaging, police said. Rebekah Davis, 31, and Cashmere Mack Jones, 24, were each charged Friday in Lake Superior...
Author: David Jackson, Jennifer Smith Richards, Gary Marx and Juan Perez Jr.Contact Reporters They were top athletes and honor-roll students, children struggling to read and teenagers seeking guidance. But then they became prey, among the many Chicago Public Schools...
Author:Emma Charles In many ways, we were an ordinary family – mum, dad, two kids, a Volvo in the drive. And in some ways we weren’t so ordinary. As a ship’s engineer, my husband Daniel worked away from home for up to four months at a time. But I never for a moment...
One Child Is Too Many
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