Border Patrol agent jailed while facing federal child sexual abuse material...
The U.S. Federal Building, Post Office and Courthouse in Burlington on Nov. 20, 2009. File photo by Mfwills via Wikimedia Commons BURLINGTON — A U.S. Border Patrol agent arrested late last year on a...
View ArticleSpecial report: ‘This never ends for him’
Editor’s note: VTDigger does not publish the names of alleged child sexual abuse victims or their families and has used pseudonyms to protect the identities of the parents, partners and child in this...
View ArticleClergy reporting bill fails to make key legislative deadline over...
Christopher Coyne, bishop of the Diocese of Burlington, center, answers a question from Sen. Phil Baruth, D-Chittenden Central, left, as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers a bill repealing an...
View ArticleSenate panel gets first look at bill to scrap clergy exemptions for reporting...
Sen. Robert Norris, R-Franklin, listens to testimony as the Senate Judiciary Committee considers repealing the exception for clergy to report child abuse and neglects at the Statehouse in Montpelier...
View ArticleYouth organization founder facing new child sexual abuse charges
Wayne Miller is being held at Southern State Correctional Facility in Springfield. File photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDigger The founder of a youth mentoring organization is facing a spate of new child...
View ArticleOnline child exploitation tips jumped 37% during 2 years of the pandemic
One evening last December, a team of law enforcement officers carrying a search warrant knocked on an apartment door in Claremont, New Hampshire. After speaking with the tenants, the police seized...
View ArticleLawsuit alleges ‘conscience-shocking’ use of force at Vermont’s now-shuttered...
Woodside Juvenile Rehabilitation Center in Essex, now closed. Photo by Mark Johnson/VTDigger Updated at 6:13 p.m. A lawsuit filed on behalf of several youth who had been placed in Vermont’s now-closed...
View ArticleHouse backs bill dropping deadline for child physical abuse claims
Burlington’s former St. Joseph’s Orphanage, which housed children from 1854 to 1974, is now an apartment building. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger The Vermont House has joined the Senate in advancing...
View Article‘Culture of abuse’ alleged at Kurn Hattin over 80 years
The original building of Kurn Hattin Homes for Children in Westminster. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger Growing up on the family farm in North Walpole, New Hampshire, Carolyn Blake Bradshaw lived on...
View ArticleUnder state pressure, Kurn Hattin gives up license
A sign outside Westminster’s Kurn Hattin Homes for Children notes its founding in 1894. Photo by Kevin O’Connor/VTDigger After a yearlong investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and...
View ArticleChild abuse reports drop, raising alarm
VTDigger posts regular coronavirus updates on this page. You can also subscribe here for daily coronavirus news. Please send your Covid-19 questions to coronavirus@vtdigger.org At first glance, the...
View ArticleAbuse case tied to former Vermont photographer closes without criminal charges
The Washington (D.C.) Hebrew Congregation has been sued by a group of parents over alleged child sex abuse. Congregation photo A child abuse investigation in Washington, D.C., involving former Vermont...
View ArticleSuit claims DCF failed to protect children from years of abuse
Vermont Department for Families and Children offices in Waterbury. Google Street View The grandparents of two children are suing the state’s Department for Children and Families for ignoring what they...
View ArticleGathering explores keys to child abuse prevention
Gov. Peter Shumlin speaks Thursday at an event focusing on child abuse prevention. Photo by Elizabeth Hewitt/VTDiggerGov. Peter Shumlin identified opiate addiction as the greatest challenge to the...
View ArticleState divided over confidentiality rules in child abuse cases
Attorney General Bill Sorrell. Photo by John Herrick/VTDigger Attorney General Bill Sorrell says that limiting confidentiality around family court could improve transparency and accountability in the...
View ArticleDCF rolls out new policies for people required to report suspected child abuse
The Department for Children and Families is reaching out to mandated reporters of child abuse across the state to inform them of policy changes related to the implementation of Act 60. The new law,...
View ArticleUniversity of Vermont Children’s Hospital announces changes at ‘ChildSafe’...
News Release — University of Vermont July 1, 2015 Contact: Michael Carrese (802) 847-2886 BURLINGTON, VT – The ChildSafe clinic at the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital/UVM Medical Center...
View ArticleChild abuse/neglect cases spiked in 2014, data shows
The number of alleged child abuse or neglect cases filed in courts across Vermont last year grew 21 percent from the year before, according to data from the state. In some counties, the number of cases...
View ArticleAG urges more access to child protection proceedings
Dave Yacovone (left), commissioner of the Department for Children and Families, and Doug Racine, secretary of the Agency of Human Services, testify before a committee looking into problems at DCF....
View ArticleRobert Luce: Protect children by supporting families
Editor’s note: This commentary is by Robert Luce, who is a trial lawyer at Downs Rachlin Martin and adviser to Vermont Parent Representation Center Inc. The recent deaths of two child abuse victims...
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