California legislators are introducing the first bills in the current biennium. One of these bills, AB 83 (Pacheco), would ...

The abuse of older adults is, sadly, quite common, especially in nursing homes. When this happens, victims of elder abuse may be able to pursue compensation and justice by hiring an elder abuse lawyer ...

Business owners in San Luis Obispo County are being urged to display a new poster in their storefronts, signaling participation in the county’s Law Enforcement Anti-Theft Task Force. This initiative, ...

The gerontocracy itself creates the conditions for a horrifying form of elder abuse, where aged and diminished leaders are used as puppets by unelected officials. Democrats unsuccessfully tried to ...

Israel has drafted a report that details the abuse that hostages were subjected to, based on the information gathered from captives who survived Hamas’s captivity, and plans on submitting it to ...

As a result, the teen's lawsuit will go to trial. Laila Mickelwait, CEO of the Justice Defense Fund and author of Takedown:Inside the Fight to Shut Down Pornhub for Child Abuse, Rape and Sex ...

After decades of silence, dozens of older men are talking about the sexual abuse they suffered at schools run by religious orders. We spoke to four of them. By Megan Specia Reporting from Dublin ...

A Church of England priest at the centre of a sexual abuse case was twice reappointed to a senior role in his diocese during the Archbishop of York's time as Bishop of Chelmsford, the BBC can reveal.

COLONIAL HEIGHTS – The nursing home where 18 employees face a variety of charges related to elder-abuse allegations that led to a former resident's death is vowing to “cooperate fully” with the ...

BILLINGS - Bond was set Friday at $100,000 for John Anthony Skauge, a Billings landlord who faces felony charges of aggravated assault and exploitation of older person with developmental ...

Massachusetts has the highest spending on elder abuse prevention per elderly resident. it also has an elder abuse working group, the Elder Protective Services Commission, which was formed in 2013 ...

Many new laws will go into effect on January 1, including one that will require posters to be hung containing information on what physical/sexual abuse is and how to report it. Many new laws will ...