People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to ...

RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THAT PERSON. WELL, IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MORE THAN 1700 CASES OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND DISABLED ADULTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY THE AGING AND DISABILITY COMMISSION ...

State Sen. David Rochefort, a Littleton Republican, said he and the state’s legislative staff are in the process of drafting ...

Parents with any kind of disability are much more likely to have some type of interaction with the child welfare system than other parents. This means they are more likely than other parents to be ...

The issue of abuse emerged from this study with unexpected force. We were unprepared and found we had a lot of homework to do. On examining the literature on abuse of both women in general and women ...

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- When police had to make the family notification after a 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability died in the hospital, the man's mother, who's accused of allowing her ...

Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...

Katie Price with her son Harvey leaves Portcullis House in London after giving evidence to the Commons Petitions Committee where she called for online abuse to be made a specific offence. (Photo by ...

You don’t have to read past the first two sentences of the summary of the latest audit of the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs to recognize that heads need to roll: “DDSN does not ...

Those living with intellectual and developmental disabilities are seven times more likely to be sexually abused in their lifetimes than people without disabilities, according to U.S. Department of ...

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- A 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability may have been neglected to the point where he weighed 70 pounds and had multiple disfigurements, including flesh rot and ...

Physical abuse, including assault, was the most common type, followed by psychological abuse such as verbal harassment.