Florida DCF investigated a hotline report that a 5-year-old girl who died Monday was being molested by her stepfather but ...

Loved ones of Melissa “Missy” Mogle, the 5 year old who died after she was subjected to brutal abuse, say she would be alive ...

Erik Dellenback, the former executive director of Hope Florida, speaks during a press conferance on July 29, 2024 in Tampa, Fl. During the conference, Florida Governor Ron Desantis and First Lady ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said ... to report such information or suspicion to the Department of Children and Families central abuse hotline. Current law provides a public record exemption for ...

A Vero Beach area daycare and preschool teacher was arrested on a charge of child abuse without great ... inspection by the Florida Department of Children and Families reported 169 students ...

Chloe and Daniel Spencer of Tallahassee, Florida, are accused of brutally abusing 5-year-old Melissa “Missy” Mogle before ...

Hope Florida helped more than 21,000 families referred to it by child protective investigators, according to the Florida Department of Children and Families. During a recent legislative hearing, the ...

Retired NFL player among 250 nabbed in human-trafficking sting - Adarius Taylor, a retired NFL linebacker, left his six-year-old child in his car when he walked into the site of the arrests, police sa ...

It is our solemn responsibility to ensure their voices are heard and their trauma met with justice and compassion.” ...

He begins to cry and then she begins to love on him," according to an allegation made to Florida's Department of Children and Families ... of neglect and abuse. The agency classified Garnett ...

WINTER PARK, Fla. — After leaders of the nonprofit Embrace Families ended their contract with Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) to manage foster care throughout Central Florida ...

Yersson Solarte, 33, has been charged with sexual battery of a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation Sanford Police Department A Florida ... abuse, call the Childhelp National Child Abuse ...