SAN DIEGO—The father of an infant who died last week after being found with severe and suspicious injuries at a University City townhouse was behind bars March 27 on suspicion of killing her, authorities said. Jaime Javier Santillanes, 37, was arrested March 22—the day after the death of his 7-week-old daughter—according to the San Diego…

The Manitoba government is spending $2.1 million on a new child abuse investigative unit. Premier Heather Stefanson says the provincewide, integrated child response unit will build on services offered by the Toba Centre for Children and Youth in collaboration with the Winnipeg Police Service and RCMP. Stefanson says the money is part of her government’s…

LOS ANGELES—Less than three years before his death in 2018, a 10-year-old boy told a school vice principal he had been abused by his mother, prompting a report to a child abuse hotline, the then-vice principal testified Feb. 8 in the murder trial of the boy’s mother and her boyfriend. Gia Greaux, who was a…

LOS ANGELES—A University of California–Los Angeles Mattel Children’s Hospital nurse testified Feb. 6 that a woman accused of joining her then-boyfriend to physically abuse the Lancaster woman’s 10-year-old son appeared to fake being emotional and was in the waiting room instead of at her child’s bedside when the boy died of his injuries in 2018….

LOS ANGELES—A prosecutor told a judge Jan. 25 that a Lancaster woman and her boyfriend tortured and abused her 10-year-old son for two weeks before his death, while an attorney for the male defendant countered that his client should be acquitted of murder. Superior Court Judge Sam Ohta was chosen to hear the case after…

Tennessee’s Department of Children’s Services (DCS) put hundreds of children sleeping in state office buildings amid a staffing shortage of nearly 500 case managers and persistent turnover, according to a recently released audit (pdf) from the Tennessee Comptroller’s office. “The Department of Children’s Services is struggling to provide support services to Tennessee’s most vulnerable children…

Australia’s e-safety commissioner, the independent regulator for online safety, has taken aim at tech giants Apple and Microsoft for allegedly “turning a blind eye” to child exploitation on iCloud and OneDrive. In a press release on Dec. 15, e-Safety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said the regulator had sent out legal demands for information to some of the world’s biggest…

Fashion company Balenciaga claimed that it made “grievous errors” in a recent ad campaign that gave hints of pedophilia, and that it strongly condemns child abuse. The apparel giant was forced to apologize after a massive public backlash following a failed effort to double down in support of its controversial ads, which critics described as…

At a news conference held Wednesday, Toronto Police announced that “Project Maverick,” a province-wide collaboration to locate and charge individuals associated with online child exploitation, had led to a total of 428 charges being laid against 107 people in just the month of October. Police have released a full list of those arrested and charged…

EL CAJON, Calif.—The adoptive mother and grandparents of an 11-year-old girl who died after being found in grave condition at a Spring Valley home remained behind bars without bail Nov. 16, but two of the defendants indicated they might contest their bail status later this month. Leticia Diane McCormack, 49, and McCormack’s parents, 70-year-old Adella…