Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A registered nurse, Dina Lester left her job working for the state in part over concerns about its poor level of care (Anna ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A former employee at a home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities is facing rape and other charges of abuse ...

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Two caregivers have been charged with murder after a 14-year-old disabled girl died from starvation and neglect in California ...

atrina Turner’s eyes lit up when her father, Pat Turner, and his fiancée, Elaine Sheffer, walked through the door of the beige stucco house in the Sacramento County community of Fair Oaks, where she ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A man was arrested after he allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman with a developmental disability from her Southeast Portland group home on Monday. Just before ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — “Torture” is how New Mexico’s top prosecutor describes the treatment a 38-year-old developmentally disabled woman endured before her death at the hands of her caregivers, who ...

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 ...

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, ...

FOREST PARK, Ohio (WKRC) - A woman paid to care for her developmentally disabled brother is accused of abusing him. Deborah Meier, 69, is charged with patient endangerment and domestic violence. Her ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Last week, law enforcement agents arrested a Portland man accused of raping and sexually abusing a developmentally delayed child multiples times over several years. Authorities ...