Sex traffickers are selling foster kids on the weekends, 25 Investigates has uncovered.

For 20 years, the Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP Report) has demonstrated the United States’ conviction that human trafficking is a global threat necessitating a global response.

A Northern Kentucky man is accused of sexually abusing his foster children and adopted child, according to the Boone County Sheriff's Office.

Social workers in Louisville have used blank removal orders with pre-signed judges' signatures to take some children from their homes in cases of alleged neglect or abuse.

Three current and former employees of a child services agency in North Carolina were arrested this week and indicted with over three dozen felony and misdemeanor charges related to its alleged...

Most child victims of sex trafficking come from our nation's own foster care system.

The Massachusetts Department of Children and Families did not report 118 incidents of sexual abuse of a child in the agency's care, a new state audit says.

The Georgia House approved legislation that would make it illegal for foster parents to have sexual...

A new State Department report on human trafficking shows the growing focus, and pervasiveness, of the terrible trade.

Many of the children sold as sex slaves were in the care of social services when they went missing. Aren't these agencies supposed to keep kids safe?

A man sexually abused as a child by his foster mom wants to sue DFCS. Georgia law won’t let him.

A woman accused of selling foster kids for sex on the weekends has been indicted on charges after a Boston 25 News investigation in May. 

ASHLAND — An Ohio foster parent has been indicted on multiple sex crime charges involving three children he was fostering, a county prosecutor said Tuesday.Christopher Wolf, 55, of Ashland, is...

MUNCIE, Ind. – Police arrested a Muncie foster parent accused of sexually abusing two children in his care. Jaythan Patterson, 41, is charged with two counts of child molesting and two counts of vi…

A grand jury indicted Kenneth Schulz on charges of endangering children Thursday. Additional charges, including homicide charges, are possible.

ST. LOUIS – Three boys say they were paid $10 and gingerbread cookies to lie to a grand jury. Decades later, they learned why. The Britton brothers are unanimous, having sworn repeatedly their uncl…

A North Fort Myers family says they're livid after finding out that a Lee County DCF worker that checked on their son, was later arrested for child molestation.

There were 121 foster children statewide listed as AWOL in November. Forty-nine of them, almost half the statewide total, were listed as AWOL in just one county: Jefferson.

Claims says he endured years of abuse and neglect at hands of couple.

The family of a 4-year-old boy who died while in foster care has filed a wrongful death lawsuit.

The girl was placed with a man later convicted of molestation. But that would not be the worst she would face.

Attorney General William Barr directly addressed the scourge of human trafficking in the American child welfare system in his speech at the White House summit on human trafficking. (RELATED: Ex-CPS...

The death of a 16-year-old Valley teen has her family asking about who is looking for the hundreds of children listed as missing by the Arizona Department of Child Safety or DCS.

An exasperated U.S. District Judge Janis Graham Jack found the state in contempt of court for failing to comply with some of her earlier orders in the wide-ranging lawsuit filed on behalf of Texas ...

Multiple employees for the Arizona Department of Child Safety lost their jobs for wearing T-shirts that read “professional kidnapper,” according to a report. The bright pink shirts that were

Medicated, institutionalized and separated from his siblings, Dontay Davis followed the path of many black boys raised in foster care.

Audit cites research showing that in typical cases, children left in their own homes usually fare better in later life.

A former foster parent is accused of sexually abusing four siblings in Georgia. 

A longtime foster parent faces charges of sexually assaulting a foster child he was hosting. Our Ike Bendavid was in court and has the details.

The Cabinet for Health and Family Services admits the child died, but it won't reveal much else.

A foster parent from Anderson is accused of sexually assaulting a child who had been placed in her custody.

Eric Walston, born in 1974, was arrested at his home Saturday night, according to Junction City Police Chief Bob Morris.

The foster parents of a 5-year-old girl who died at the Spirit Lake Reservation were arrested Friday night on a federal complainy.

A foster parent well known in the foster community is currently at the Lower Buckeye Jail facing seven counts of sexual abuse, sexual misconduct, and attempted sexual abuse.

SIERRA VISTA — Two local men, one a soldier stationed on Fort Huachuca and the other a former foster parent, have been taken into custody following an investigation into alleged

Antioch police have arrested a father and son on charges of sexually abusing multiple children under their care for six years.

Not even the family dog was safe from this sicko.

Jordan McClain, 20, met one of the minors on Facebook, and now faces child abuse charges after allegedly giving them marijuana and Xanax

The investigation has revealed that Summers allegedly molested and/or abused all four children in his care.  The children range in age from 8 to 16 years old and lived in the home for approximately 4...

Police say the foster parent for twins who were found dead in a car in Hinesville has now been arrested.

Most of the 78 alleged offenses occurred after Simon Chavez Jr. admitted to Children and Family Services that he “made out” with one of the girls.

A Florida foster mother has been arrested on charges of organizing an adoption scheme and allegedly used her own adopted son as a pawn in the fraud.

Scott Thomas was charged with 22 counts of sexual abuse of children related to child pornography.

A disturbing "experiment" in the late 20th century out of Germany, where pedophiles fostered children, so they wouldn't have to 'seek new victims.'

Samantha Morton says she still does not feel justice has been done despite a major inquiry.

Babies were snatched off the streets by strangers in passing cars. Or taken from day-care centers or church basements where they played. Or stolen from hospitals, right after birth, passed from doctor

German officials in Berlin for 30 years routinely placed homeless children under the care of dangerous pedophiles.

Italian police have arrested 18 people, including a mayor, social workers and psychologists for allegedly “brainwashing” children into believing their parents had abused them, in a scheme to take

Lawyers for the 10 plaintiffs, who range in age from 18 months to 17 years old and are all in Oregon foster care, accuse the state of consistently violating the children’s rights guaranteed by...

Deputies found a six-month-old child naked and unresponsive in a plastic container.

"It’s an epidemic across our nation," one parent told NBC.

Government-funded researchers tested AIDS drugs on hundreds of foster children over the past two decades, often without providing them a basic protection afforded in federal law and required by some...

Witnesses reported seeing Malcolm Cobler walk his adopted daughter on a leash which he yanked so hard her feet left the floor, in Missoula, Montana in the USA

Daniel Spurgeon’s plea agreement will send him to prison for 25 years.

The process of adoption in Tennessee has been called into question after investigators found the bodies of two adopted children on two different East Tennessee properties.

Hundreds of millions of dollars may have been fraudulently collected by adoptive parents, and states are prohibited from investigating the fraud.

A Dearborn-area couple was arrested on $50,000 warrants Tuesday after a boy reported to neighbors that he had been abused.

Emotional statements indicate the impact of the cruelty the parents visited upon their children.

Pennsylvania's Auditor General reiterating just days ago that the state's foster care system is broken. A system designed to protect our most vulnerable, putting them at risk of abuse, and sometimes...

A North Carolina Child Protective Services worker has been arrested after her 11-year-old foster child was found chained to the porch of her home with a dead chicken hanging around his neck, a...

Priscilla Marquez invites the public to a protest Sunday outside the Phoenix home where she says her daughter's remains were found.

Kendrea Johnson's death, her family said, was a result of failures in the county child protection system intended to protect her.

SACRAMENTO -- The paternal grandmother of a 6-week-old baby is demanding answers from Sacramento County Child Protective Services after her infant granddaughter died in a foster home. "Whether it w…

SACRAMENTO — A Sacramento family is demanding answers from CPS after their infant son, taken into protective custody following allegations of abuse, died in foster care. “The next thing…

A South Florida woman has hired an attorney after her 14-year-old daughter committed suicide on Facebook Live at her foster family's home in Miami Gardens.

Two years after a BuzzFeed News investigation, the Senate introduces the Child Welfare and Accountability Act to track foster care contractors.

Child Protective Services (CPS) is using a “Predictive Analytics” computer program to determine whether or not parents should be allowed to keep their children. The State Department’s 2019 human...

Removing children for anything less than imminent danger is simply punishment for the crime of being poor.

It’s afternoon on the Monday after the Fourth of July. My daughters, ages five and six, sit perched on the ...