New York State Police have charged the father of a five-month-old with assault and other charges after the infant had to be hospitalized, and Troopers say the story about how the child suffered the injuries wasn't adding up.
Officials with the Oneida County Child Advocacy Center say they were alerted to the case back in early October when a one-year-old girl was being treated at the hospital for facial injuries, and a healed fracture in her elbow.
The New York Police Department has classified the death of a 1-year-old girl as a homicide after the medical examiner found that she suffered from "fatal child abuse syndrome."
Legislation to make it easier for molestation victims to seek criminal charges or file lawsuits against their abusers has once again passed the New York state Assembly.
The Democrat-controlled state Assembly has passed legislation that would mandate New York private schools to require employees and volunteers to report allegations of staff members abusing students.
Investigators say a San Antonio-area couple punished their three young children by forcing one to brush her teeth with cat feces, using a shock collar as punishment and beating them with a thorny switch.