Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly two hundred years. Why have the failed? Baby Doe A political history of tragedy. Last June, a woman walking her dog on Deer Island, in Boston Harbor, came across a black plastic garbage bag on the beach. Inside was a very little girl, dead. The woman called for help and collapsed in tears. Police searched the island; divers … [Read more...]

The bad stuff hurt too much, the girl said, so she took trips in her head. She imagined she was playing in the park, not lying on the basement floor or standing naked in the bathroom where, she said, her father touched her. He told her not to tell anyone, she said, but she told anyway. She told her mother, who went to the police. She told her therapist, who wrote a letter. She told the … [Read more...]

The famous Wolferts sisters, Danielle and Sydney, disappeared July 17, 2014 and remained in hiding until found safely with their mother on January 3rd. Now, they are being held without charges in a Utah juvenile detention center known as Slate Canyon. Although the sisters have repeatedly expressed their wishes to remain with friends and family in Utah, their allegedly abusive father has filed a … [Read more...]

A special-victims unit fights the hidden epidemic of sexual assault that is disturbingly difficult to investigate. A dull, frigid winter morning. Overhead, the sky was locked in gray, only occasionally releasing an ashen, icy flake or two, more like iron shavings than snow. On the third floor of the New Haven police station, Detective Kris Cuddy had just finished interviewing the mother of … [Read more...]

(KUTV) After 18 months on the run, law authorities now know where 16-year-old Sydney and 15-year-old Danielle Wolferts are. But they aren't releasing those details. Their father, Brian Wolferts, was granted sole custody of the girls, including the eldest, Brittany, who is now 20 years old. For years, the teens kept journals with allegations of physical and psychological abuse from their … [Read more...]