HOUSTON, Texas -- A man is accused of using an extension cord to beat as many as seven children in northwest Houston. Raetheon Patterson, 31, was arrested in connection to the incident that happened ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nuns have admitted beating children with slippers and belts in a six-year campaign of abuse. Marie O’Gorman, 79, and Mary McGuire, ...

A case involving a couple accused of repeatedly assaulting their six children with baseball bats and neglecting dogs in a filthy home deemed unfit for living will proceed to court after the husband ...

Randi Nicole Jackson Staples was arrested and charged with willful abuse of a child under the age of 18 on Nov. 16 Staples worked as a teacher at Cottage Hill Christian Academy in Mobile, Ala., where ...

O’FALLON, Mo. (KMOV/Gray News) — A mother and father in Missouri are in jail after authorities said they beat, starved and locked up their three children. Police in O’Fallon are calling it “one of the ...