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James Stanley Weems Jr., Shanteari Young, Lil Kidz Kastle, child abuse, crime, theGrio.com
April 17, 2025
James Stanley Weems Jr., was sentenced to life in prison on Monday, April 14 for sexually abusing children at his…
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March 21, 2025
“May God have mercy on your souls, because this court will not,” a judge told the white couple convicted for…
February 23, 2024
By broadly defining abuse and neglect, CAPTA enabled the creation of a punitive child welfare system that conflated poverty with…
December 23, 2022
Nicholas Spencer and his wife, Mackenzie Leigh Mathias Spencer, came to Uganda in 2017 and were fostering three kids.
August 2, 2022
A South Carolina inmate who killed four people is off death row after a federal appeals court ruled the judge…
June 2, 2022
Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers.
May 9, 2022
A child welfare algorithm showed a pattern of flagging a disproportionate number of Black children for a “mandatory” neglect investigation,…
May 4, 2022
A lawsuit alleges that a Chicago-area medical center called a child protection agency under the assumption a harmless birthmark was…
May 3, 2022
Peterson agreed to the sessions as an alternative to prosecution during a pre-filing hearing on Friday, ESPN reported.
April 23, 2022
Six Black children were allegedly mistreated and forced to sit in a separate group from their white peers at a…
March 3, 2022
Reported missing almost 15 months ago, the boys' bodies have not been found, but the Kern County, California, DA has…
February 11, 2022
Harris' plea of guilt on two counts means that five additional federal counts against the former Netflix show star will…
February 10, 2022
Yolanda Denise Coale was reportedly asleep when she heard screaming and found the boy being hit by his older sister.
February 4, 2022
"All she does is cry and say she wants her mama," said Hoyle's mother of Jariyah, her 10-year-old granddaughter.
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January 25, 2022
Actors Marlon Kazadi and Adrian Holmes spoke with theGrio about their Canadian thriller film, 'Chained,' which was released in December.
January 21, 2022
Joyce Watkins and Charlie Dunn spent 27 years in prison before parole was granted in 2015, but Dunn died before…
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December 3, 2021
A Texas father has been jailed on aggravated assault charges after causing fatal injuries to his three-year-old daughter.
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October 30, 2021
Gloria Williams has been charged with injury to a child, and Brian Coulter is facing a murder charge in the…
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October 17, 2021
The Real host Jeannie Mai said that she is now in a safe place with her husband and she finally…
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September 14, 2021
An Arizona mom is being named as the primary suspect in the murders of two children found in a Phoenix…