All news on the topic: Child neglect

Two one-year-old twin sisters have been found dead in their beds from dehydration as a heatwave sweeps across France.

A seven-year-old boy died weighing 18 stone with his parents arrested for murder, child abuse and torture.

A healthcare executive and her husband have avoided prosecution after agreeing to fines, community service, and a total ban from the Florida county where their six-month-old baby was found left alone on a beach.

Jonte William Bluck was killed by his family’s pet XL Bully while staying with his dad in November last year, with an inquest into his death opened at Gwent Coroner’s Court on Monday

An unnamed Australian in their mid-40s was jailed last month at Perth’s District Court of Western Australia for neglecting their only child after the child was admitted to the hospital severely malnourished.

An office worker told police that Jessica Woods, mother of an 18-month-old girl, tried to sell her the baby for $500 on a street outside an H&R Block store in Palatka, Florida

An Ohio woman pled guilty to murder after leaving her 16-month-old daughter alone for 10 days while she went on vacation to Detroit and Puerto Rico, as investigators found the toddler starved, dehydrated, and covered in faeces

Authorities allege that caretaker Alysia Adams, 31, who they say is responsible for the death of four-year-old Athena Adams, had a sexual relationship with her jailer

A mum in Indiana was charged with felony negligence after police discovered she abandoned her son, 3, in a cold house without heat for so long he needed his foot amputated

Kambria Gabrielle Darby, 26, was charged with child neglect after taking her two-year-old son to Walmart dressed in just a diaper despite freezing temperatures in Mississippi

A Walmart worker was sacked after she confronted a mom who was pushing her toddler son around the store in just a diaper. The mom was seen wearing a jumper, trousers and boots

A French mother identified as Alexandria received an 18-month sentence this week after authorities discovered she left her nine-year-old to live alone with no heat or electricity while she moved in with her partner

Following the death of Bronson Battersby, found curled up next to his deceased dad Kenneth in Skegness, Lincolnshire, the Mirror looks at other tragedies, such as Baby P

Jacarie Robinson's body weighed just 24.5kg and had already begun to decompose when he was discovered by his older sibling inside their dad's apartment in Milwaukee

Zoe Felix often asked neighbours if she could stay with them after being neglected by her mum and was often seen running around unsupervised. Authorities also visited the family many times

The Kansas Department for Children was called multiple times in the weeks leading up to Zoey Felix's alleged murder after she was kicked out the house by her own mum

Kristen Danielle Graham, 40, of Seaford, Virginia has been charged with child neglect after leaving an 11-month-old and a dog inside a hot car for six hours while she went into her home to sleep

YouTuber Ruby Franke and business partner Jodi Hildebrandt have each been charged with six counts of felony child abuse after Franke's son escaped through a window in Utah

Neighbours heard a woman screaming for help on Monday morning, and as one rushed to her aid, he found a three starving children with one boy, aged 9, unresponsive on the floor. He later died at the hospital

Drug-addled Angel Taylor and Chevy Lafountain of Louisiana have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder after their four-month-old baby girl was found dead of starvation

Elizabeth Archibeque has been sentenced to life without parole after her six-year-old son was found unresponsive and malnourished having been kept in a tiny closet which reeked of urine

Police found children severely abused and locked in dog cages at the home of Travis Doss, 31, and Amanda Stamper, 33. Meanwhile, Doss had been branding himself as a wealthy, tormenter rapper on social media

The stepmum of six children found in an apartment, two of them in cages, has claimed she was abused too after she and her husband were arrested and charged with child abuse

Mum Katie Koch posted happy family pictures on Instagram of her two children despite the boys smashing their way out of a window to escape their home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Sheila and Clay Fletcher have been re-indicted on murder charges after their daughter Lacey Ellen Fletcher's body was discovered "melted" into a couch in their home in Louisiana