B AKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For the first time since Genesis Mata’s death, allegedly at the hands of her parents, the ...

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development.

House Health Chairwoman Amy Summers is asking how the public’s representatives can learn more about a state agency’s responses to sensitive child protective services cases. The question has ...

During an hour-plus of testimony to the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, more than a dozen residents painted a grim ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- A recent state investigation revealed that Child Protective Services (CPS) agencies are not always handling cases of child abuse or neglect appropriately and that the mistakes may ...

Police arrested a man after a years-long investigation into the repeated sexual abuse of a child under 13 in Newark. Daniel R. Shaffer, 43, was taken into custody in Florida and flown back to New York ...

Calls for an investigation came after Mata’s family said they had called child protective services multiple times before Mata ...

Kern County is moving to conduct an external investigation of its child protective services following the death of an ...

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development. Unfortunately, according to the United States Department of Health and Human ...