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Jenna's Law (Texas: Tex. Educ. Code § 38.0041; 2009 HB 1041; 2009 Tex. Gen. Laws, Chap. 1115) [1] is a Texas law which mandates that all public schools, charter schools, and day care facilities train school aged children K-12, staff, and parents on the signs and symptoms of all forms of child abuse. It is the first child sexual abuse ...
A proposed Texas law that would criminalize medical child abuse has been approved by a House committee after a hearing last week that included testimony from the Tarrant County sheriff.. The ...
Youth lockups in Texas remain beset by sexual abuse, excessive use of pepper spray and other mistreatment including the prolonged isolation of children in their cells, the Justice Department said ...
A Houston man was sentenced to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to sexually exploiting a 9-year-old and being a dark web administrator for a website that consisted of child sex abuse ...
An Austin-based appellate court on Friday upheld several lower court rulings blocking Texas from investigating several families that provided gender-affirming medical care to their children for ...
The Refuge Ranch was a Christian faith-based facility on 50 rural acres in Bastrop County, Texas, for young women who had been subjected to human trafficking, which operated under contract with the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (DFPS) until it was ordered to shut down on March 11, 2022, in the wake of multiple reports of sexual abuse and exploitation, medical neglect and ...
Zeigler's former stepmother explained that his father had used similar methods to raise his children, which often involved abuse. Other ex-wives also gave recollections of Zeigler's father's abuse and likened the circumstances to that surrounding the death of Riley Ann. [ 13 ]
U.S. District Judge Janis Jack ordered the fines Monday evening for the state's repeated failures to timely and fully investigate allegations of abuse in the foster care system, holding a Texas ...