Experts say low conviction rates explain why disability abuse cases, including recent Delaware examples, often end with probation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 4—A cellphone video taken inside a Santa Fe care facility in May shows a disturbing scene: A young man who worked as a ...

The state is baring the history of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized.

In a news release from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, deputies said they opened a child abuse investigation on Nov. 14 after a witness reported seeing a bus aide strike the child.

Most physical or sexual abuse against the disabled happens to those who are mentally retarded - a condition that can be caused by genetic defects, diseases, poor nutrition in early childhood or brain ...

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DIFFERENT FACILITY. AGAIN, WHAT ARE YOU DOING? SOLOMON SANCHEZ IN HOT WATER. ONCE AGAIN, NO ONE TAKING YOU TO THE BATHROOM AFTER THE FORMER 20 YEAR OLD TEACHER PLED GUILTY TO ABUSE OF A SEVEN YEAR OLD ...

Group sexual violence against a disabled person: three arrests in the province of Naples, victim attacked for months. This morning, the Carabinieri of the Afragola Station executed an order ...

Domestic abuse in the UK is at crisis levels. More than 1.6 million women became victims of such abuse in the year ending March 2024 – adding to the ever-growing list of women seeking support to ...

This story was commissioned by the River City Journalism Fund. After Ronald Scheer was found suffocated to death by the straps of his own wheelchair, an autopsy determined his cause of death was ...