New Jersey's Supreme Court has declined to take up the case of a chaperone whose child endangerment conviction stemming from what he called a "shower game" was reversed on appeal.
The definition of child abuse would expand to include a child subject to prenatal exposure to a controlled, dangerous substance under a new bill introduced by Assemblyman Declan O’Scanlon.
A monument at a New Jersey Catholic church that is dedicated to victims of child sexual abuse has been destroyed for the second time in less than two years.
New federal statistics show that reports of child abuse and neglect have dropped nationwide for the fifth consecutive year, and abuse-related child fatalities also are at a five-year low.
A Newton 56-year-old arrested in July for kiddie porn later admitted luring a 15-year-old to Pennsylvania for sex and having erotic fantasies about child cannibalism, say federal investigators. Now they want to know if Robert Mucha's alleged victims include any children in Lakewood, where he spent time as a drum and bugle corps instructor several years ago.
Jerry Sandusky's child sex-abuse trial remained on track to start next week after a Pennsylvania appeals court on Friday turned down his latest request for a delay.
According to a New Jersey court,
A slap on the face constitutes excessive corporal punishment if it’s hard enough to leave a handprint and bruising.
This is coming on the heels of a child welfare case in which a woman slapped her 8-year old son in the face when he answered a question by shrugging his shoulders...