Operation Phobos

The cause of 13-year-old Madeline Soto's death has been revealed. Her mother's boyfriend, Stephan Sterns, was charged with murder weeks after Madeline Soto disappeared on her way to school, per police.

The Charleston County Sheriff’s Office has charged a Ladson mother with homicide by child abuse after the death of an infant. Deputies charged Sara Shakeri-Taylor, 39, after deputies responded to a residence on May 15 for reports of an unresponsive child. 

A 30-year-old mother will spend four decades in prison after her boyfriend fatally drowned her 5-year-old son in a toilet as punishment and injured her 6-year-old daughter in 2022.

A former professional football player was sentenced this week for abusing and killing his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter in 2019.

US pop star Taylor Swift said she was “completely in shock” after an assailant in the English town of Southport attacked children at a Swift-themed dance class. A third child died on Tuesday of injuries sustained in Monday’s knife attack as police questioned a 17-year-old suspect...

Azuradee France had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the 2022 incident.

A Kinston man who was previously charged with three felony child abuse charges has had one of those upgraded to first degree murder.

Kimberlee Singler, a Colorado Springs woman accused of killing her 9-year-old daughter and 7-year-old son and attempting to kill her 11-year-old daughter, was arrested in the United Kingdom on Saturday.

After they caught him faking incompetence, federal prosecutors were on their way to trying a man who allegedly helped kidnap and murder a rape victim. But he just died.

A young mother faces a murder charge following the death of her 1-year-old daughter. The little girl's twin brother is in critical condition.

A 25-year-old Pawtucket man faces charges of second-degree murder and a count of second-degree child abuse in the death of a 1-year-old boy after a grand jury handed up an indictment in the case Friday morning.

A 29-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for causing fatal injuries to his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son, who officials found in a ravine near a campsite in 2021.

Two people are facing multiple charges in the death of a child in Blount County

The Lincoln man accused of killing a 22-month-old boy in 2023 has been found guilty.

A 25-year-old father faces a charge of murder for allegedly inflicting fatal injuries on his baby more than a year after physically assaulting the mother while she was pregnant.

A 4-year-old girl is dead after authorities said she suffered severe child abuse at the hands of her parents.

AUGUSTA, GA:  A U.S. Army spouse at Fort Eisenhower has been indicted on two counts of murder by a federal grand jury.

Susan Baffour pleaded guilty to child abuse resulting in death in a deal with prosecutors in the death of 8-year-old Dametrious Wilson.