Topic: Child Abuse
A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway. An estimated 553,000 children suffered physical, sexual or emotional abuse ...
Ireland's Roman Catholic bishops are being summoned next month to a Vatican summit with Pope Benedict XVI to shape the pontiff's response to child-abuse scandals, church officials said Wednesday. A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Ciro Benedettini, confirmed that the pope has written to Ireland ...
Tennis star Anna Kournikova's mother has been arrested in Florida and charged with child neglect. A Palm Beach police report says 46-year-old Alla Kournikova left her 5-year-old son home alone while she ran errands Tuesday. Someone passing by the home found the boy and ...
