A campaign group hopes to prompt the government to take action to stem the rise of violence against women by keeping a database of every woman who is killed by a man With neat rows of photographs of smiling women old and young, of all backgrounds, classes and creeds, it might be pages from a social media website or something from an advertising campaign. Hundreds of women, captured in a moment … [Read more...]

John Ferrell said he feared for his life; Jane Hughes asked for protection SIMPSONVILLE. S.C. — The dispute between a man who was killed Saturday and his estranged wife and her family members who are charged in his death goes back several years, according to court documents obtained by WYFF News 4. A family court judge decided custody of John Ferrell's and Jane Hughes' son and daughter on … [Read more...]

The federal government's failure to enforce the nation's child protection laws is a "national disgrace" that leaves abused children vulnerable to future harm, according to a three-year study by two child advocacy groups. The 110-page report released Tuesday identified some of the same failures reported in December by The Associated Press after an eight-month investigation into hundreds of … [Read more...]

MONTEBELLO >> Red flags were everywhere in the marriage of Daniel Diego and Erica Roberta Perez. Police say there was a history of domestic violence. Family members say it was a troubled marriage. She was convicted of misdemeanor corporal injury to a spouse in 2011, in an incident that her family members say was self-defense. They also say the abuse was a pattern. On Dec. 10, the body … [Read more...]

AUSTIN, Texas - Texas has not publicly reported hundreds of abuse- and neglect-related child deaths since 2010, raising questions about the accuracy of the state's official fatality count, an Austin American-Statesman investigation into the state's child protection system has found. Between 2010 and 2014, the Department of Family and Protective Services did not publicly report 655 child … [Read more...]