TAG / ABUSE

A landmark 2018 takedown promised a reckoning for online sex trafficking—but while a handful of executives fell, the broader ecosystem of enablers, profiteers and apologists remains largely intact. How do we hold the hidden perpetrators accountable?

With limited video oversight and dozens of abuse reports, advocates say Arkansas’ Human Development Centers fail to adequately protect vulnerable residents from harm.

Attorney Michael Jaafar represents dozens of girls who allege beatings, forced stripping and sexual misconduct at Vista Maria. The facility ended its residential program amid mounting complaints.

Footage shows a therapist striking a nonverbal autistic boy with a shoe, racket and other objects—an incident that has reignited scrutiny of abuse risks within behavioral and mental health systems.  

Inspectors found a resident with a body temperature of 105.7 degrees left in a bathtub while staff ignored required checks and emergency protocols.

From fatal neglect to violent assaults, the state-run facility has faced repeated fines while patients continue to die under its care.

From “Fight Club” brawls to staff overdoses, Los Padrinos has spiraled into chaos. Now California moves to seize control to protect the children inside.

In a remote Alabama town, victims were drugged, restrained and raped for profit—while continuing to attend school. 

Donald Lantz and Jeanne Whitefeather tortured five children they forced into slave labor, locking them in a shed without water or light. “May God have mercy on your souls, because this court will not,” the judge said. 

A unit of Universal Health Services has been exposed for boosting profits as part of “a disturbing long-standing pattern of abuse and neglect.”