The child's grandparents found videos showing Toon aggressively push the child's head and neck into her bed and throw her ...

A former East Texas live-in nurse was sentenced on Friday to five years in prison for abusing an 8-year-old girl with disabilities she was supposed to be caring for.

A district judge is sending an Athens woman who turned down a probation deal to get a lighter sentence to prison in ...

Gaston County police arrested Vera Williams and Marlo Wallace, accused of abusing and neglecting 23-year-old Aaliyah Fortner ...

A coalition of eleven Malawian civil society organisations has issued a joint submission demanding bold reforms to address deep-rooted human rights abuses affecting the most vulnerable groups in the ...

The Los Angeles County Public Defender's Office has an unusual unit at its office: A team dedicated to working with defendants who have cognitive disabilities. The office helps these people access ...

A prosecution investigation last year cleared person with mental disabilities who was wrongly accused of embezzlement, after ...

A “Glock switch” is a small, attachable device roughly the size of a quarter that allows a semi-automatic pistol to fire ...

As incarceration rates continue to soar in the Northern Territory, experts warn mental health reform in the justice system is ...

Criticizing the law allowing pregnant women to park in disabled parking spaces, a lawyer said the law’s passage shows “a total lack of awareness.” ...

The teen, who has a two-year-old toddler of her own, lives with a guardian away from her dad, after her biological mother died last year.

This is a disturbing case involving a child predator who used his disability to gain sympathy and trust from young children ...