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All parties are banned from discussing the case in which a father allegedly kept his 16 children inside a small room.

The discovery of 16 siblings who authorities say were held at a rural Ohio home for years in squalid conditions is straining the county’s resources.

As of Monday, the agency had fielded about 60 requests to make donations to the children who were removed from a squalid Vinton County home, including two from Canada.

The discovery of 16 children living in deplorable conditions in rural Ohio has left people wondering why the life-threatening squalor wasn’t detected earlier.

Republican lawmakers have introduced bills that would boost the punishment in Ohio for people who ask others to share explicit photos online, and then use those pics to blackmail them.

Dozens of immigrant women have said they received unwanted gynecological procedures at Irwin County Detention Center. Yet even as authorities investigate, the accusers have been in danger of removal.

Reports of child abuse in Ohio are down dramatically, but those working in the field say they’re concerned that incidents are actually on the rise and…

Online depiction of child sexual and physical abuse has exploded during the last decade. Last year, more than 18 million incidents of such content were…

An independent investigation has found that former Ohio State physician Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 male students between 1979 and 1997.…

"There can simply be no ambiguity about the church's responsibility to protect the abused and be a safe place for the vulnerable," wrote the president of the Southern Baptist Convention.