A Hampden, Maine mother whose son was a victim of abuse in an assisted living facility was shocked to learned the full extent of the abuse from a local newspaper.

When Mary Melero, 38, was discovered on Feb. 23 in Texas close to the U.S. border, she was so battered that she was unable to stand and was unresponsive.

A man from Texas who is accused of "honor killing" his two daughters and who was on the run for more than a decade from authorities faces trial on Monday, claiming that he did not kill his daughters but that he was followed.

A man has been charged with continuous sexual abuse of a child after he reportedly admitted to having sexual intercourse with an underage victim some "50 to 100 times" in San Antonio, Texas.

A sex offender has been sentenced to 50 years in prison after he directed a woman to sexually abuse a young boy in a perverted "master-slave" agreement in Lake Worth, Florida.

A retired gymnast has filed a class action suit against Gymnastics Canada for abuse when she was still competing back in the 2000s.

Amber Heard released a message on Instagram on Saturday about her upcoming defamation trial against Johnny Depp on Monday, as the two continue to battle publicly the allegations of abuse in their relationship.

A widow in Palm Springs is accused of stabbing her physically-disabled husband at least 140 times earlier this month after he filed for divorce in December, police said on Sunday.

A nomadic 26-year-old mother and a 40-year-old father have been arrested after viciously abusing their 9-month-old son to death in an RV parked outside of a beaver-themed convenience store in Middle Georgia, the Warner Robins Police Department (WRPD) said on Friday.

Global megachurch Hillsong's leader has finally resigned after his father's sexual abuse case has resurfaced.

An Inkster, Michigan woman has been arraigned on child abuse and intent to murder raps after allegedly slitting her children’s throats with a knife in a gruesome New Year’s Day attack.

Police nabbed a deranged Utah man, who is accused of staging a hostage drama, where he held a woman captive for several weeks in sheer desperation to force her to fall in love with him. 

A woman who had been locked up in the home she shared with her abusive partner was rescued with the help of health care workers she visited.

A Jacksonville mother will be serving life in prison term after pleading guilty to the 2017 murder of her 11-year-old daughter, who was the victim of years of abuse. 

A court handed a suspended sentence to a woman who stabbed her drunk former partner in self-defense.

A Fayetteville father faces a charge of second-degree murder following the death of his four-week-old daughter on Aug. 29 while the infant was left in his care.

On Wednesday, a second Ghislaine Maxwell accuser testified that convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was 14. She also claimed to have ridden a private jet with Prince Andrew in a flight operated by Larry Visoski, who also presented evidence against the British socialite. 

A Gwinnett County mother is facing increased charges for the murder of her autistic 8-year-old daughter after police found her lifeless body in DeKalb County days after her reported disappearance.

A New Jersey mother has been arrested last week amid allegations she subjected her 14-year-old daughter to years of recurring abuse. The revelations came after the child ran away from home.

Between 2016 and 2018, around 18,000 people were reportedly killed in Venezuela for resisting authority.

A man reportedly dropped his 2-month-old infant and fractured the child's bones over "excessive crying."

An Indiana woman is behind bars facing a slew of felony charges after an alleged threesome set up on a dating app turned into the horrific rape and murder of her two victims, one of whom was declared “deceased and beyond help” after being brutally beaten to death.

Accused Sarah Lawrence sex cult leader Larry Ray and his alleged victim-turned-accomplice, Isabella Pollok, will face separate trials over allegations they brainwashed a group of students and made a profit by forcing some into prostitution, a federal judge ruled on Tuesday.

A man who donned women's clothes and allegedly assaulted a 12-year-old girl has been arrested while he was riding his bike naked near a school.

An abusive man will receive capital punishment over the gruesome murder of his ex-wife, a Tibetan social media star, who he doused with petrol and set alight during one of her live streams last year, a Chinese court ruled.

A six-year-old child was allegedly abused and brutally killed by his stepmother, with his father condoning the abuse. The couple has been charged with murder and assault.

A man was reportedly caught on camera repeatedly sexually violating a miniature horse named "Mariah."

There are calls for the father of a girl who was allegedly sexually assaulted in a Virginia school bathroom to be tagged as a "domestic terrorist" after the distraught parent attacked officials during a local school board meeting, which disregarded his daughter's ordeal. 

An insider claimed that Tyga let his ex-girlfriend in at one point in time, and things took an untoward turn behind closed doors.

Schools all over the country are tackling the problematic Slap-a-Teacher challenge that has become viral over the social media application, TikTok.