Prosecutors call it one of the most complex cases they’ve ever had to try.

After a two-week trial, a father is now convicted of abusing his infant son, breaking more than two-dozen bones.

After more than three years, the case of 30-year-old Robert Lee Heck of Mankato is coming to a close.

John William Gonzales, convicted of first-degree murder and felony child abuse in the death of his 1-year-old son, is staying in prison.

Gonzales is serving a life term and up to 22 years for the child abuse charge.

Being a parent sometimes requires a measure of tough love. But even according to some of the leading law enforcement minds in the state, the line between discipline and abuse is sometimes unclear – specifically when it comes to spanking. There are many methods of correcting a child by spanking – with a hand, a […]

Baltimore police are seeking to question a man who may have assaulted an 18-month-old girl who contracted the sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea, according to a city police spokesman.

Police said they have tried several addresses for the man but had not found him as of Wednesday evening. The spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi, said on Wednesday evening that state parole and probation agents requested and received a warrant charging the man violating the terms of his release from prison.

A mother already on probation for child abuse now faces a new charge involving the same 4-year-old child.

Diana Leigh Otwell, 24, of 1047 Jesse Drive, Cleveland was charged May 6 with misdemeanor child abuse.

SAN DIEGO – A disproportionate percentage of victims of severe physical child abuse in San Diego County tend to be infants, and the perpetrators are often younger parents or caregivers, according to a report released Wednesday.

The San Diego County Health and Human Services Agency examined the most severe physical child abuse cases locally over the past 18 months to look for trends.

A Deschutes County registered sex offender has been charged with more than 200 new counts of criminal charges involving child sex abuse after an investigation in Port Orford.

David Windham, 43, of Bend, was charged last week with 180 counts of encouraging child sex abuse, 31 counts of using a child in a display of sexual exploitation, and eight counts of sexual abuse in the first degree. Windham is lodged in the Deschutes County Jail on $5.3 million bail, according to Curry County Sheriff John Bishop.

When a Superior Court judge would not let state police search Dr. Earl B. Bradley’s office in December 2008, he told investigators he would sign a warrant for the pediatrician’s arrest, but prosecutors decided they didn’t have enough evidence to prove he was conducting inappropriate vaginal exams, according to an independent report released today.

The judge, who was not identified, told a state trooper “he would sign a criminal arrest warrant” when he denied the search warrant application, the report said.

The pope admitted today that the Catholic church was entirely responsible for the child abuse scandal that has spread across Europe, silencing conspiracy theorists in the church as he arrived in Portugal to be met by hundreds of protesters distributing condoms.

FORT WORTH — Toxicology tests on a 2-year-old boy hospitalized Sunday for seizures revealed that he had amphetamines and methamphetamines in his system, according to a Fort Worth police report.

The crimes against children unit is investigating.

The boy was taken by ambulance to the Cook Children?s Medical Center emergency room Sunday morning, according to a police report. His mother said her son “had got into something” and was having seizures.

New York (CNN) — The only picture Donna Green ever had of her son, Raymond, was in her mind.

“I don’t have a picture of him. I never had a picture,” Green says about the fair-skinned baby boy snatched 31 years ago from her home in Atlanta, Georgia.

That changed last month when Green had a chance meeting with Diana Trepkov, a certified forensic artist. Both women had traveled to Wilmington, North Carolina, to attend a conference hosted by the CUE Center for Missing Persons.

SPRING – Alexandria Lowitzer seems to have vanished without a trace.

No phone calls, no text messages, no good-bye letter to indicate she was upset and wanted to get away from things. No obvious reason, anyway, for her to be upset.

The last time anyone saw the 16-year-old teen from Spring, she was getting off the school bus April 26, only a few feet from her home on Low Ridge Road.

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. – A Grand Junction mother is asking for help finding her two young children missing since April 17th.

Law enforcement officials are concerned but admit that because the children were taken by their father, their hands are tied.

STOCKTON — In a surprise move Melissa Huckaby pleaded guilty Monday to the murder of 8-year-old Sandra Cantu.

Huckaby pleaded guilty to murder with a special circumstance of kidnapping. All other charges against her in the case were dropped.