Child Abuse

Innocent Lives Foundation, ILF, recently held a fundraiser in Punta Gorda. The non-profit group hires experts to scour the internet, looking for child predators.

Lawmakers in several states are embracing legislation to let children work in more hazardous occupations, longer hours on school nights and in expanded roles including serving alcohol in bars and restaurants as young as 14.The efforts to significantly roll back labor rules are largely led by Republican lawmakers to address worker shortages and in some cases run afoul of federal regulations.

One in four American women will experience domestic violence in her lifetime, according to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence. That's more women than are affected by breast cancer, ovarian cancer and lung cancer combined. Still, more than one-third of Americans have never discussed the issue.

On this episode of the Book Club, we hear from Julie K. Brown, the award-winning investigative journalist from The Miami Herald.

State health officials reported 2,628 new COVID-19 cases, Thursday, bringing Florida's total to 709,144 cases. The Florida Department of Health also reported 131 new coronavirus-related deaths, Oct. 1, increasing the statewide death toll to 14,619 fatalities.Of the 5,333,017 COVID-19 tests that have been reported in Florida so far, the overall positivity rate stands at 13.3% and the latest single-day positivity rate dropped to 4.62%.

The lookback window to file sex abuse claims in NY has been extended.

We're getting an update on the state of the foster care system in southwest Florida with Nadereh Salim, she's the chief executive officer of the…

When an investigator with the Department of Children and Families follows up on a call to its abuse hotline and determines there is reason to suspect a…

Governor Rick Scott has signed a claims bill into law to help further compensate a young abuse survivor who—along with his sister—suffered for years,...

This week, Reveal revisits the story of a woman who decides to confront the man she says abused her decades earlier.Reporter Tennessee Watson says she was…