Child Abuse

Child advocacy groups estimate that at last one hundred thousand children are trafficked each year in the U.S. They are coerced or abducted by traffickers…

After a series of highly-publicized child deaths, the new leader of the Florida Department of Children and Families rallied a record crowd at the annual…

The University of South Florida will begin digging for human remains from the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Marianna on Saturday. The work on the…

State leaders are responding to the rash of child deaths in Florida this summer.Broward senator Eleanor Sobel hosted a town meeting that drew hundreds of…

The Greater Orlando Human Trafficking Task Force includes the Florida Department of Children and Families and Orlando Police Department. It also includes…

More than 111,000 domestic violence crimes were reported in the sunshine state in 2011 according to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and experts…

The state Senate is making another try at policing assisted living facilities that abuse or neglect their residents. The Senate Committee on Children,…

The Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns approved its final report Monday and will start implementing its recommendations.The…

The toughest child abuse reporting law in the nation went into effect in Florida last October. It used to be that only parents or caregivers suspected of…

A state Senate panel is preparing a bill that would overhaul the Road to Independence program for youth aging out of foster care. It's aimed at giving…