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 ...

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 ...

In 2025, the New Hampshire Bulletin published a series of articles outlining abuse and neglect — sometimes fatal — committed ...

The Bulletin’s William Skipworth has won a Collier Spotlight award for his three-part report on abuse and neglect in New ...

State Sen. David Rochefort, a Littleton Republican, said he and the state’s legislative staff are in the process of drafting ...

A video recorded at a Dunbarton care home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities in February 2019 captured caretakers pinning Lucas Houle to the ground and slapping him repeatedly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FILLMORE, Ind. — The recently-resigned ...

When a recent audit of the S.C. Department of Disabilities and Special Needs uncovered lax abuse investigations and flawed hiring practices at the agency that cares for some of our state’s most ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Eight employees were indicted last month on accusations of patient abuse and evidence tampering at a state-run facility for adults with intellectual disabilities. One man is accused ...

People with disabilities are four times more likely to be victims of violent crime. Federal funding to bring their abusers to justice is dwindling.

After years of complaints about poor care and mismanagement, group homes for New Jerseyans with developmental disabilities could face a bevy of new regulations under legislation introduced in Trenton ...