abuse

A new audit finds that Louisiana's Department of Health is taking over a year to flag healthcare workers accused of abuse, putting vulnerable patients at risk.

Three Louisiana school aides were caught on surveillance video abusing a blind and autistic student. Parents are outraged, and an investigation is now underway.

A 15-year-old girl was found living alone in a Shreveport hotel room in deplorable conditions. Police have arrested her parents on charges of child neglect and improper supervision. The case remains under investigation.

A former priest in New Orleans has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse just moments before his trial was set to begin.

A man in New Orleans, Louisiana waited outside of a church for Archbishop Gregory Aymond to arrive so that he could plead for the release of documents surrounding alleged abuse.

A Louisiana nurse assistant has been charged with cruelty to the infirmed after he was allegedly caught on a monitor urinating in a hospice patient's milk.

Geremaine Adams now sits in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center after he allegedly injured his girlfriend so bad that she suffered serious injuries.

A man and his girlfriend are behind bars after the man's elderly mother says the couple would not allow her to leave her bedroom for essential reasons and allegedly threatened to beat her if she did.

Nine students were injured Wednesday morning after a school bus overturned on I-10 in New Orleans.

A mother accused of abusing her adult daughter, with the alleged help of her friend, is behind bars in Acadia Parish.