All news on the topic: Child neglect

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Mum 'offered to sell baby for £400' before walking off 'leaving daughter behind'
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
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Mum who left baby alone in playpen for 10 days to go on holiday guilty of murder
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
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Caregiver 'who killed 4-year-old girl' had sexual fling with jailer, deputy says
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
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Mum 'kept son, 3, in freezing house until foot became black with frostbite'
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
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Mum who wheeled baby round store in just a diaper on freezing day is arrested
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
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Shoppers confront mum pushing toddler in trolley in just diaper on freezing day
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
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Mum abandoned son, 9, to live alone after moving in with partner for two years
A French mother identified as Alexandria received an 18-month sentence this week after authorities discovered she left her nine-year-old to live alone with no heat or electricity while she moved in with her partner
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Bronson heartbreak will happen again unless cutbacks stop now - expert says
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
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Dad on the run after 12-year-old son found dead with maggots all over his body
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
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Girl, 5, who died after being thrown out by her mum had heartbreaking question
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
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Girl, 5, raped & murdered at homeless camp was always dirty & begged neighbours
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
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Toddler and dog left in hot car for six hours die in sweltering temperatures
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
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Mum-of-six who gave parenting advice on YouTube charged with child abuse
YouTuber Ruby Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt have each been charged with six counts of felony child abuse after Franke's son escaped through a window in Utah
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Neighbours find starving kids with 'little skeleton arms' before tiny boy dies
Neighbours heard a woman screaming for help on Monday morning, and as one rushed to her aid, he found a three starving children with one boy, aged 9, unresponsive on the floor. He later died at the hospital
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Drug-addict parents unremorseful as baby girl starves to death in deplorable pad
Drug-addled Angel Taylor and Chevy Lafountain of Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after their four-month-old baby girl was found dead of starvation
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Boy starves to death as mum keeps kids in tiny urine-soacked closet without food
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
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Dad who 'kept kids in cages' is wannabe rapper who posted pics of cars and cash
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
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Mum of kids found in cages says she didn't call cops as 'the dad abused her too'
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
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Inside 'caveman' brother's 'house of horrors' where mum faked happy family life
Mum Katie Koch posted happy family pictures on Instagram of her two children despite the boys smashing their way out of a window to escape their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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Parents of woman found 'melted' into couch after 12 years reindicted for murder
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
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Mum of missing 4-year-old 'angel' girl detained as police find child's remains
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
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Twist in case of daughter whose remains 'fused with couch from years of neglect'
WARNING - DISTRESSING DETAILS: Lacey Fletchers emaciated body was found rotting and "fused" to the sofa covered in urine, liquid faeces, maggots, insect bites and severe ulcers when police discovered it
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Half-brother 'strangled' starving boy found walking streets begging for food
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
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Kids trapped in car as it bursts into flames while 'mum shoplifted nearby'
Police allege a mum in Oviedo, Florida was arrested after she left her children in a car that burst into flames while she went shoplifting at a mall with an unnamed man
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Boy, 3, found dead in his own bed in 'bone chilling' child abuse case
WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. A three-year-old boy was found dead in bed in a case that has shocked American authorities - a couple have been arrested following the boy's death
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