Domestic Violence News

Cocoa police said Sunday that the Palm Bay man who abducted his 3-year-old son during a supervised visit Saturday may have escaped with the boy on a sailboat.

The report into how allegations of clerical child abuse were handled in the Dublin Archdiocese will be published later today.

VICTIMS of abuse took part in a walk through Basildon town centre to help launch Domestic Abuse Awareness Week.

A father with an abusive past allegedly hit and kicked his son and forced him to drink an energy drink on Thanksgiving afternoon, authorities said.

MADISON - A woman trying to control her 5-year-old daughter's tantrums is accused of repeatedly tying up the child, starving her and drugging her to calm her down.

A Norfolk man has been arrested on suspicion of felony child abuse. Police say they began investigating 31-year-old Jeremy Dewitt earlier this month after receiving a tip that he may have used drugs in the presence of a 4-year-old child.

Karla Giraldo's face required about 40 stitches after an incident with her boyfriend, a New York state senator.

Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen has said the cover-up by the Catholic hierarchy in Dublin of child abuse by priests was shocking and disturbing.

A PRIEST who was abused as a young seminarian yesterday said that bishops who failed to prevent or report decades of child abuse in Dublin would have to face God over their devastating inaction.

Friday, November 27, 2009 at 10:56 p.m. Read more: State , Crime , Lakewood , Colroado , Baby's Death , Father , Arested LAKEWOOD, Colo.

A survivor of domestic abuse has spoken out at the start of a campaign in Norfolk to raise awareness of violence against partners.

Published by Jon Land for 24dash.com in Local Government Tuesday 24th November 2009 - 10:12am Councils 'still missing signs of child abuse' - Ofsted Children's workers are still failing to identify and report signs that a youngster is the victim of abuse, inspectors warned today.

An eastern Iowa man has been arrested after he allegedly hit his girlfriend with branches from a Christmas tree.

A 2-year-old girl is in stable condition at a hospital after her mother was arrested on a charge of injury to a child.

A decision on which case to try convicted baby killer Andrea Person on next will be made in several weeks, 5th Circuit Solicitor Barney Giese said Monday.

Associated Press A November 26, 2009 A DUBLIN -- An expert commission says the Roman Catholic Church in Dublin covered up decades of priests' sexual abuse of children because its bishops were determined to protect the church's reputation at the expense of victims.

The Archdiocese of Dublin and other Catholic Church authorities covered up clerical child abuse until the mid-1990s, according to a government-commissioned report released Thursday.

Shaquille O'Neal gets the 2009 Thanksgiving award for quietly paying for the funeral of a little girl he never met.

The woman accused of second-degree murder in the 2007 death of one of her boyfriend's children entered a guilty plea to a reduced charge today and will testify against the father at his trial next spring.

Counsellors are bracing themselves for an onslaught of crisis calls after the latest horrific revelations of a Catholic Church cover-up of clerical sex abuse.