Child Abuse

Louis VanWie victimized young children for decades, and now his victims are worried that he may be released.

A Scotia man entered a guilty plea in Schenectady County District Court for raping an underage child and faces up to seven years of imprisonment when he is sentenced in September.

A Troy resident has been arrested for allegedly raping a juvenile in a correctional facility in 2020.

The operators of the daycare, a couple from Green Island, have both been arrested for endangering the welfare of children at the daycare.

The two men are accused of taking a 16-year girl to a hotel room in Malta overnight on January 27 and January 28. The two men allegedly gave the young girl alcohol and drugs and then proceeded to have sexual contact with her

Once again a grown man has been arrested for allegations of sexual misconduct with a child.  This time the predator traveled to meet a 10-year-old when undercover officers arrested him.

The tragic death of a four-year-old foster child in Rotterdam led to the arrest of both of his foster parents.

Mr. Ojeda had pleaded guilty to manslaughter. He admitted that the baby ingested methamphetamine while he was caring for his child. Mr. Ojeda did not call for medical assistance for his child until it was too late.

45-year-old Matthew Peters has been arrested.  According to authorities, the Schenectady resident initiated and exchanged sexually explicit text messages with an undercover officer between October 2 and October 7.

In August 2019, 31-year old Douglas Fountain pleaded guilty to eight felony counts of sexual exploitation of a child, one count of transportation of child pornography and two counts of child pornography.

A fifth lawsuit has been filed against a local bishop Howard J Hubbard, accusing him of sexual abuse, that dates back into the 1970s.

Edward J. Bush, of Fort Edward, was arrested on July 20 for trying to make arrangements to have sex with an 11-year-old child.

Social Studies teacher at Warren Street Academy, 26-year old Sean M. Miller of Latham was arrested on Thursday by the Colonie Police Department.

Jake Alexander Cruse 33 years old and lived in Troy just plead guilty to not only having child pornography he was distributing, transporting and receiving video images of child abuse.

Tommie Lee has broken her silence on child abuse charges which sent her to jail for some months.

Thirteen people have been arrested in an underage rape sting, accused of trying to rape a child under the age of 15, state police said Monday.

In today's #BLANKSTARENEWS: This is the definition of "degenerate." Two men filmed themselves letting a toddler smoke cigarettes and drink beer and thought it was a good idea to post this online, according to Central European News. The 1-minute clip was posted to Facebook by a user named Daniel Tecu, who later asked for help identifying the two boneheaded adults, according to Central Eur