child abuse

Eat or drink at seven participating Billings businesses on Thursday (4/28) and you'll automatically help raise funds for the Family Tree Center.

A recent undercover investigation reveals child labor is being used to produce one of the world's most popular Easter chocolates.

Montana's health department is concerned that the decline in the number of calls to the child abuse hotline since schools closed due to the coronavirus might be masking the danger that children are in.

Officials say the boy is no longer in their custody.

19-year-old Keagan Shearer of Helena is accused of having nude images of underage girls on his phone and faces a felony charge of sexual abuse of children. Shearer has been under adult supervision since March for sexual abuse without consent...

35-year-old Jason Rose of Billings was sentenced Tuesday to 80 years in prison with no time suspended for raping a toddler over a period of three years. Rose pleaded guilty in June to one count of sexual intercourse without consent for raping the child...

Back in Missoula jail for a third time, despite pleas by the child's father that she be put in for a longer sentence.

Hundreds of families were allowed to return home this past weekend in the Lolo Peak and Rice Ridge Fire areas.

45-year-old Chad Meeks has been charged with sexual assault after an elementary school student told school officials he abused her, according to charging documents.  Meeks appeared Monday in Yellowstone County Justice Court where Justice of the Peace David Carter set bond at $150,000...

  According to charges filed in Yellowstone County District Court, a Billings couple starved, burned, and tied up their preschool-aged son with rope and duct tape.  KTVQ.com reports that 49-year-old Cornelius Mitchell and his 40-year-old wife, Julie, are charged with two counts of aggravated assault, assault with a weapon, three counts of assault on a minor and one count of endangering the welfare