COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – A disability advocacy organization has sued the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health, accusing the agency of withholding records tied to alleged abuse and neglect at its ...

RELEASED THE IDENTITY OF THAT PERSON. WELL, IN THE PAST THREE YEARS, MORE THAN 1700 CASES OF PHYSICAL ABUSE AND NEGLECT AND DISABLED ADULTS HAVE BEEN RECORDED BY THE AGING AND DISABILITY COMMISSION ...

Experts say low conviction rates explain why disability abuse cases, including recent Delaware examples, often end with ...

The state is baring the history of generations of disabled people and the violence many faced while institutionalized.

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- A 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability may have been neglected to the point where he weighed 70 pounds and had multiple disfigurements, including flesh rot and ...

HITCHCOCK, Texas (KTRK) -- When police had to make the family notification after a 45-year-old man with an intellectual disability died in the hospital, the man's mother, who's accused of allowing her ...

In a news release from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office, deputies said they opened a child abuse investigation on Nov ...

-- Reposted from the online magazine, "The Trauma & Mental Health Report" The term disability is used regularly, although its definition remains somewhat elusive. Statistics Canada defines “disability ...

In his latest annual report, New Jersey's disability ombudsman said neglect, abuse and unsafe conditions persist at group homes. Paul Aronsohn's report describes a bureaucracy that often treats ...

Victoria University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than one-third of mothers with intellectual and developmental disabilities have an interaction with the child welfare system ...

Women with disabilities in Kyrgyzstan face alarming rates of harassment, physical and sexual abuse, and economic discrimination, despite legal reforms, Human Rights Watch said today, ahead of ...