A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent). This story was commissioned by the River City ...

A 71-year-old Strasburg woman, Gerilynn "Lynn" Amaro, is now facing six felony charges of assault of an at-risk person, and two misdemeanor charges of child abuse, in connection with the alleged abuse ...

A former employee at a home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is facing rape and other charges of abuse against a woman in his care. Hal E. Nauman, 78, of Warrenton, had been ...

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Washington has announced it will pay $8 million to settle a Pierce County case after a developmentally disabled woman was abused and neglected for years while under her family’s care. The settlement ...

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

A High Desert legislator introduced a bill this week that would legally designate the crime of rape of a developmentally disabled child as a violent felony in California. State Rep. Tom Lackey, ...

A state audit has found there were at least 3,500 incidents of actual or alleged abuse or neglect during a five-year period at care facilities throughout Louisiana that serve people with developmental ...

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Scheer, a man with developmental disabilities and mobility issues who used a wheelchair, was living at the state-run St. Louis Developmental Disabilities Treatment Center in St. Charles in June 2020 ...