All news on the topic: Child neglect

Sequoia Samuels was reported missing early on Thursday morning after family woke up and she was nowhere to be found with the front door of their apartment in Memphis lying open

WARNING - DISTRESSING DETAILS: Lacey Fletchers emaciated body was found rotting and "fused" to the sofa covered in urine, liquid faeces, maggots, insect bites and severe ulcers when police discovered it

Ethan Washburn, 20, from Tennessee, US, is the biological son of Kristy Schindley, 47, who is accused of committing child cruelty alongside husband Tyler, 46, after the boy weighed just 36 pounds

Police allege a mum in Oviedo, Florida was arrested after she left her children in a car that burst into flames while she went shoplifting at a mall with an unnamed man

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. A three-year-old boy was found dead in bed in a case that has shocked American authorities - a couple have been arrested following the boy's death

A 16-year-old teen apparently "didn't know she was pregnant" when she gave birth to twins at 30-weeks. She has since been charged with involuntary manslaughter, among other things, after dumping the babies in the bin

Kathreen Adams and Christopher McLean's older, four-year-old child managed to escape the sweltering car but their toddler daughter perished in the heat

Kaylea Titford was found in conditions described as "unfit for any animal", in soiled clothing and bed linen at the family home in Newtown, Powys, and her parents allowed her to become morbidly obese

Tyler and Krista Schindley are accused of attempting malice murder against their 10-year-old child, among other charges, after the boy was found wandering alone away from his home

Christian Miguel Bishop-Torrence from Wichita Falls, Texas, was charged with murder after his one-year-old baby starved to death, weighing less than she did when she was first born

Peter Jackson said every day has been a living nightmare after the death of his daughter Darcey who died in her carseat alongside her sister after being left in 60C heat in Queensland, Australia

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT Mum Louise Lennon and her boyfriend Jake Drummond messaged each other about putting her 15-month-old son Jacob in a 'torture chamber'

Raven Yates, a 31-year-old mum-of-two from Texas, allegedly left her two children at home alone. She was found several months later in Alabama, hunderds of miles away from them

The baby's remains were found last night, close to where Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were earlier arrested on suspicion of child neglect

Police, who were forced to break down the door to enter the house in India's Haryana state, were stunned to find huge piles of garbage made up of clothes, hair and empty grocery packets above a thick layer of dirt covering all surfaces

A 12-week-old baby girl was found dead next to her mother who had taken cocaine in a room with empty beer bottles, according to a Serious Case Review in Liverpool

Abusive woman Jody Simpson, 29, abused baby Tony Hudgell with her partner so badly he needed his legs amputating. She has now been released less than five years into a 10-year sentence

A 49-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man have been arrested on suspicion of neglect after a seven-year-old girl was found dead at an address in North London

Kaylea Titford, 16, spent the last years of her young life in conditions 'not fit for animals' after allegedly being neglected by her parents, a court heard

In what is believed to be the first-of-its-kind case in Britain, a feckless dad has been convicted of child neglect after babysitting his daughter through the Amazon Alexa app while he was at the pub