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They Called CPS on 'Free Hugs' Boy's Family. Then, Tragedy

The search is still on for 15-year-old Devonte Hart and two of his siblings after the SUV they were believed to be in with their adoptive parents and three other siblings went over a cliff in...

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Cops Seeking Missing Kid Rescue 11 From Compound

Police looking for a missing 3-year-old boy at a remote compound in northern New Mexico didn't find him—but they did rescue 11 other children who were living in the most squalid conditions they'd ever...

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Police: Mom Left Kids in Hot Car, Attacked Good Samaritan

A mother in Louisiana left her two young children locked in a hot car for around 90 minutes and then attacked one of the people who rescued them, police say. Shawnise Sherman, 22, has been charged with...

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Cops, DCFS Called After Mom Lets Girl Walk Family Dog

The mom of an 8-year-old in suburban Chicago is railing against a "crazy waste of resources" that ended in what CBS Chicago describes as a "legal nightmare." The Chicago Tribune details how on Aug. 2,...

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Cops: Mom Left 3 Kids in Cold Car to Shop

It's the corollary to the child-left-in-hot-car stories from the summer: A woman in Wisconsin faces child-neglect charges after leaving her three young children in a cold car while she shopped, reports...

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Cops: Girl Told by Mom to 'Hurry' Under Train Dies

Joy Frances Collins didn't want to miss her bus home, so the California mom asked her children to do something they'd done many times before, police say—and now her young daughter is dead. Per Fresno...

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Cops: Mom Left Kids Home Alone Watching Home Alone

An Indiana mom left her two small sons home alone with some very appropriate entertainment, reports KWBE . Police responded to a report of unattended children in a Muncie home and found 4- and...

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Parents Sentenced for Child Neglect Over YouTube Videos

A Maryland couple whose YouTube prank videos garnered them accusations of child abuse were sentenced to five years probation on child neglect charges Monday, BuzzFeed reports. Michael and Heather...

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Classmate Recalls Students Treating Turpin Girl Like Dirt

David and Louise Turpin essentially can't have anything to do with their children for the next three years following a judge's Wednesday court order. The Desert Sun reports Riverside County Judge Emma...

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They Called CPS on 'Free Hugs' Boy's Family. Then, Tragedy

The search is still on for 15-year-old Devonte Hart and two of his siblings after the SUV they were believed to be in with their adoptive parents and three other siblings went over a cliff in...

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Cops Seeking Missing Kid Rescue 11 From Compound

Police looking for a missing 3-year-old boy at a remote compound in northern New Mexico didn't find him—but they did rescue 11 other children who were living in the most squalid conditions they'd ever...

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Police: Mom Left Kids in Hot Car, Attacked Good Samaritan

A mother in Louisiana left her two young children locked in a hot car for around 90 minutes and then attacked one of the people who rescued them, police say. Shawnise Sherman, 22, has been charged with...

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Cops, DCFS Called After Mom Lets Girl Walk Family Dog

The mom of an 8-year-old in suburban Chicago is railing against a "crazy waste of resources" that ended in what CBS Chicago describes as a "legal nightmare." The Chicago Tribune details how on Aug. 2,...

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Cops: Mom Left 3 Kids in Cold Car to Shop

It's the corollary to the child-left-in-hot-car stories from the summer: A woman in Wisconsin faces child-neglect charges after leaving her three young children in a cold car while she shopped, reports...

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Cops: Girl Told by Mom to 'Hurry' Under Train Dies

Joy Frances Collins didn't want to miss her bus home, so the California mom asked her children to do something they'd done many times before, police say—and now her young daughter is dead. Per Fresno...

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Cops: Mom Left Kids Home Alone Watching Home Alone

An Indiana mom left her two small sons home alone with some very appropriate entertainment, reports KWBE . Police responded to a report of unattended children in a Muncie home and found 4- and...

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'Hundreds of Bugs' Crawl Out of Girl's Backpack, Mom Arrested

When a Florida second grader came to Bagdad Elementary School in Milton with an undesirable smell and soiled clothes, a staffer found out from the little girl she didn't remember the last time she'd...

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Cops: Boy's Death Will Haunt Us Our Whole Lives

It was a slow and painful death for a 12-year-old Indiana boy chained and starved by his father and stepmother, according to authorities. "I cannot think of, in 30 years, a case like this. It's beyond...

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Nobody Checked Child Abuse Email—for 4 Years

A Colorado government email account set up to organize reports of child abuse and neglect went unchecked for four years so that five cases requiring immediate attention were disregarded. Colorado's...

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Youth Ranch Raided After Complaint About Nail Gun

Montana has removed 27 children from a home for troubled youth after reports of abuse, including one mentioning a nail gun shot at a child, per NBC News . "No child should have to experience what...

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