Domestic Violence News

A new study of domestic violence in Tennessee last year found women were nearly two times more likely to be victimized than men and children were the victims in 16% of all family violence cases.

"The victim had obvious injuries on her face and knots on the back of her head," Mustang Police Detective Cami McNeil said.

The number of abused and neglected Michigan children rose in recent years, during a period when state spending on abuse and neglect prevention plummeted.

The Boy Scouts of America is asking the Texas Supreme Court to review an order requiring it to turn over years of so-called perversion files in a child abuse lawsuit.

THE forum tackling domestic abuse and sexual violence hopes people will use the high-profile example of a so-called 'playful tiff' between Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson and not suffer in silence.

The 27-year-old was found to have viewed almost 5,500 of the photographs - 500 of which showed adults abusing children.

When 3-year-old Jared Nicholas Patton died in December 2009 of what doctors said were the results of an inflicted brain injury when he was only 3 weeks old, James City County 's top prosecutor hoped to bring a murder charge against the boy's father.

She followed the directions of lawyers and police and undertook every legal remedy available to a woman being terrorized by a violent and enraged husband.

"Terminator 2" actor Edward Furlong pleaded not guilty today to charges of assaulting his girlfriend and threatening her if she called police.

Federal agents and Ashland police said Tuesday that the trio forced the woman to do housework, threatened her and the girl with violence and fed their pets better than the mother and daughter.

THAT'S HOW NEIGHBORS ARE DESCRIBING THE MAN ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS OWN MOTHER. FREDRIC HARDEMAN, JUNIOR' WAS ARRESTED THIS MORNING ON A FIRST-DEGREE MURDER COMPLAINT.

Mayor making at City Hall in Norwich. Newly-elected Lord Mayor Keith Driver and Sheriff Graham Creelman.

Joseph Koch, an off-duty NYPD officer, was shot in the hand late Sunday as he struggled for his gun with a suspect in a domestic-abuse incident in Queens, New York City police said.

IT'S A Knockout legend Stuart Hall was jailed for 15 months yesterday after sexually abusing 13 schoolgirls - and could be out in just six.

CHARLES Saatchi has been cautioned by police for assault for grabbing wife Nigella Lawson's throat during a restaurant bust-up.

Leading internet companies have been summoned to a Westminster meeting in a bid to crack down on child abuse online.

A South Dakota legislative panel has started a study of the state's domestic abuse laws, but it has delayed a discussion on whether those laws should cover people in same-sex relationships.

A woman has been charged with attempted murder police say she admitted to shooting her husband multiple times early Sunday morning.

Aaron Allen, 28, from Hudson Falls, N.Y. succumbed to injuries stemming from a gun shot wound sustained last night on John Corey Road in Danby.

Police are looking for the husband of a woman found stabbed to death Saturday morning outside of a friend's house, a day aftershe obtained a restraining order against him.