Got story updates? Submit your updates here. › The harsh flash photography of damaged digital evidence highlights the grim realities of child exploitation cases pursued by federal authorities.Jamestown Today Federal authorities announced the arrest of a 42-year-old registered sex offender from Jamestown, NY on new child pornography charges, as well as the sentencing of two...Read More

Table of Contents Table of Contents Ask Anything Encyclopaedia Britannica defines social media as “a form of mass media communications on the Internet (such as on websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos).” Globally, some 64 percent of the population (some 5.24 billion users), and 94 percent of all Internet...Read More

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (InvestigateTV) — A father who lost his 2-year-old son to a furniture tip-over has built the only child-safety demonstration house in the United States to prevent similar tragedies. Brett Horn founded Charlie’s House in Kansas City, Missouri, after his son Charlie died when a 30-inch dresser fell on him in 2007. The...Read More

A new study about teens and sexting shows a rise in the number of teens either sending or receiving sexually explicit texts. The study finds 27-percent of kids under 18 receive sext messages including nude photos and nearly 15-percent of teens send them. Some of the most concerning new data in the report relate to...Read More

Story highlights Brandy Vela, who had been bullied, killed herself in front of her family Her family says people have posted disturbing things on a memorial page Police are investigating but say they don’t have any suspects CNN —  Raul Vela, who watched his daughter die two weeks ago, doesn’t want peace or quiet. He wants...Read More

BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Gov. Brad Little signed a bill that gives foster care children more protection. Senate Bill 1257, known as “Isaiah’s Law,” is named after a boy whose story exposed gaps in the system. The law strengthens foster child safety by allowing courts to deny in-person parental visitation when physical or sexual abuse...Read More

SOMERS POINT, N.J. (WPVI) — A pre-kindergarten teacher’s aide in South Jersey is accused of sexually assaulting multiple children over a 10-year span, according to prosecutors. Shaun M. Stebbins, 43, of Somers Point, was arrested Sunday and charged with first-degree aggravated sexual assault of a child under 13, first-degree permitting a child to engage in...Read More

One of the latest and most ambitious studies on bullying and cyberbullying in middle and high school students begs to differ with the adage, “sticks and stones can break my bones, but names can’t hurt me.” Researchers found that 1 in 5 students said that they had been threatened with a weapon at school, 73...Read More

Updated at 2:48 p.m. ET on February 27, 2026 Not so long ago, Mark Zuckerberg was working in overdrive to convince the world that his company was doing everything it could to protect children. In 2021, he posted a note to his personal Facebook page, writing that he had “spent a lot of time reflecting”...Read More

In January, I wrote about a study in which two-thirds of teenage girls in an online forum reported being asked to send sexually explicit messages or images via text. The overwhelming majority of the girls who sexted reported being “coerced” into doing so. That study was based on a small sample of about 400 young...Read More