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In 1822, when prison reformers in New York proposed the nation’s first juvenile institution, they saw the need to keep children separate from adults as “too obvious to require any argument.” The juvenile justice system was founded on the idea that young people are capable of change, and so society has a responsibility to help them ...
Shocking new charges have been brought in the case of a family that was brutally murdered in their homes on Halloween night in 2015.. Cathy Scott, her husband Michael Scott, Mr Scott's mother ...
Child abuse (also called child endangerment or child maltreatment) is physical, sexual, emotional and/or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child, especially by a parent or a caregiver. Child abuse may include any act or failure to act by a parent or a caregiver that results in actual or potential wrongful harm to a child and can occur ...
The Beslan school siege (also referred to as the Beslan school hostage crisis or the Beslan massacre) was a terrorist attack that started on 1 September 2004. It lasted three days, and involved the imprisonment of more than 1,100 people as hostages, (including 777 children) ending with the deaths of 334 people, 186 of them children, as well as 31 of the attackers.
Philippines. In 2002 the Catholic Church apologized for sexual abuses, including adultery, homosexuality and child abuse by 200 priests over the previous 20 years. [40] In 2003 at least 34 priests were suspended in a sex abuse scandal involving sexual harassment of women. Twenty men were from a single diocese.
The new ID documentary series “Quiet on Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV” takes a deep dive into the working conditions of both child actors and adult staff on Nickelodeon in the 1990s and 2000s.
Fritzl case. The Fritzl case emerged in 2008, when a woman named Elisabeth Fritzl (born 6 April 1966) told police in the city of Amstetten, Lower Austria, that she had been held captive for 24 years by her father, Josef Fritzl (born 9 April 1935). Fritzl had assaulted, sexually abused, and raped his daughter repeatedly during her imprisonment ...
Helping to Solve a 30-Year-Old Murder Case. Home DNA tests even helped to solve the case of the Golden State Killer, according to a report from PBS News Hour.In 1987, Jay Cook and his girlfriend ...