BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For the first time since Genesis Mata’s death, allegedly at the hands of her parents, the 8-year ...

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Calls for an investigation came after Mata’s family said they had called child protective services multiple times before Mata ...

Research shows that early childhood maltreatment is associated with significant delays in social and cognitive development.

Ray Mata Jr. and Graciela Bustamonte have been charged with first-degree murder, willful cruelty to a child, and torture ...

The Kern County Board of Supervisors convened on Tuesday to address a pressing issue within the county: the oversight of ...

During an hour-plus of testimony to the Kern County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, more than a dozen residents painted a grim ...

An Irvine man described by authorities as a “prominent staff member” of an Orange County church was arrested last week following allegations that he sexually assaulted a teenage girl ...

During the past year, 12 children who had been the subject of reports of abuse or neglect to the state’s child protective services died, according to a report released Wednesday.

When investigated by the police, hospital staff, and child protective services (CPS), each entity may view the same events differently, but the sole and final decisionmaker is CPS.

Child Protective Services was already teetering under the weight of thousands of cases of child neglect and abuse, deep budget cuts and the discovery of more than 6,000 reports to the child-abuse ...

Amanda Neal, a child protective services investigator in Michigan, has noticed calls slow down during the coronavirus pandemic. She doesn’t take it as a good sign.