The conviction came nearly five years after the couple brought their unresponsive 10-month-old son to the Hoag Hospital ...

Their son, now 5-years-old, suffered permanent brain damage, leaving him a quadriplegic unable to walk, talk, or see.

The latest case in a wave of abuse actions that experts say could bankrupt state schools involves a Fresno County district, where five former students filed a suit Wednesday alleging officials brushed ...

A 79-year-old Sylmar man has been sentenced to life in federal prison on various child sex charges, the FBI announced Saturday. Edwin Bernard was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge Josephine ...

Three members of a Southern California family were charged Wednesday with torturing six foster children between the ages of 4 and 16 over a span of years, prosecutors said.. Kenneth Michael Key ...

A nationwide operation resulted in the rescue of 115 children and the arrest of 205 alleged sex offenders, several of them from California, according to federal authorities.

The law set off a wave of child sex abuse litigation that has pushed some public institutions to the brink of financial crisis. School districts face up to $3 billion in claims.

Editor’s note: This article includes descriptions of child sexual abuse. A jury convicted a former UCLA Early Care and Education center teacher Friday of nine counts of child sexual abuse.

An angry security guard “purposely struck” a child on a bicycle at a San Rafael shopping mall and drove away, California police reported. Melvin Anthony Kennedy, 66, returned to the scene and ...