All news on the topic: Child neglect

A Child Safeguarding Practice Review has outlined the history of the seven-month-old baby's life and death, following the tragedy in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham

Jason Warren, 54, was desperately trying to attract down members of the public on Monday in California after claiming his 7-year-old grandkid had been kidnapped for human trafficking

Mummy YouTuber Ruby Franke has been compared to cult mum Lori Vallow as both harbour intense obsessions with control, a handwriting expert said of Franke's diary entries

Ruby Franke and her business partner Jodi Hildebrandt were each sentenced to four consecutive sentences of one to 15 years in a Utah prison in February following the 'horrific abuse'

Young couple Zackery Davis and Jacquilyn Keith were arrested this week after they allegedly tried to auction off their newborn twin baby girls to a family member for £3,959

Ohio mother Kristel Candelario, 32, lied to police officers when her 16-month-old daughter Jailyn was found starved to death in squalor - claiming she was refusing food

Kristel Candelario, 32, told a judge this week that while her toddler's, Jailyn, death was unfortunate, her pain stemming from depression and anxiety forced her to take a vacation, during which her daughter died in urine and poop-filled clothes from stravation and dehydration

Sheila and Clay Fletcher have received a 40-year sentence after pleading pleading no contest to manslaughter charges for the death of their 36-year-old daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher

An office worker told police that Jessica Woods, mother of an 18-month-old girl, tried to sell her the baby for $500 on a street outside an H&R Block store in Palatka, Florida

An Ohio woman pled guilty to murder after leaving her 16-month-old daughter alone for 10 days while she went on vacation to Detroit and Puerto Rico, as investigators found the toddler starved, dehydrated, and covered in faeces

Authorities allege that caretaker Alysia Adams, 31, who they say is responsible for the death of four-year-old Athena Adams, had a sexual relationship with her jailer

A mum in Indiana was charged with felony negligence after police discovered she abandoned her son, 3, in a cold house without heat for so long he needed his foot amputated

Kambria Gabrielle Darby, 26, was charged with child neglect after taking her two-year-old son to Walmart dressed in just a diaper despite freezing temperatures in Mississippi

A Walmart worker was sacked after she confronted a mom who was pushing her toddler son around the store in just a diaper. The mom was seen wearing a jumper, trousers and boots

Following the death of Bronson Battersby, found curled up next to his deceased dad Kenneth in Skegness, Lincolnshire, the Mirror looks at other tragedies, such as Baby P

Jacarie Robinson's body weighed just 24.5kg and had already begun to decompose when he was discovered by his older sibling inside their dad's apartment in Milwaukee

Zoe Felix often asked neighbours if she could stay with them after being neglected by her mum and was often seen running around unsupervised. Authorities also visited the family many times

The Kansas Department for Children was called multiple times in the weeks leading up to Zoey Felix's alleged murder after she was kicked out the house by her own mum

Kristen Danielle Graham, 40, of Seaford, Virginia has been charged with child neglect after leaving an 11-month-old and a dog inside a hot car for six hours while she went into her home to sleep

Elizabeth Archibeque has been sentenced to life without parole after her six-year-old son was found unresponsive and malnourished having been kept in a tiny closet which reeked of urine

Police found children severely abused and locked in dog cages at the home of Travis Doss, 31, and Amanda Stamper, 33. Meanwhile, Doss had been branding himself as a wealthy, tormenter rapper on social media

The stepmum of six children found in an apartment, two of them in cages, has claimed she was abused too after she and her husband were arrested and charged with child abuse

Sheila and Clay Fletcher have been re-indicted on murder charges after their daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher's body was discovered "melted" into a couch in their home in Louisiana

Sequoia Samuels was reported missing early on Thursday morning after family woke up and she was nowhere to be found with the front door of their apartment in Memphis lying open

Ethan Washburn, 20, from Tennessee, US, is the biological son of Kristy Schindley, 47, who is accused of committing child cruelty alongside husband Tyler, 46, after the boy weighed just 36 pounds