Advocates, policy-makers and experts are asking how state and local social safety nets allowed a slew of tragedies to occur ...

"Obviously, the trauma here is significant," Oakland County Prosecutor Karen McDonald said in announcing the charges ...

A teenage boy who lived for years in squalor after his mom abandoned him and his two little sisters left the house only twice ...

A judge set a $250 million bond Thursday for a Michigan woman who is accused of leaving three children alone for years in a ...

Police discovered a boy and two girls abandoned by their mother and living in squalor for at least five years in southeastern ...

The children, a 15-year-old boy, and two girls, ages 12 and 13, had been alone in the home without supervision since either ...

The mom accused of abandoning her children and forcing them to live in squalor alone for years is being represented by a ...

Three children were found living alone in "absolute squalor" in a Pontiac, Michigan, rental home after their mother abandoned ...

Three children are now living with a relative and their mother could be facing charges after they were found abandoned in ...

A Michigan woman has been charged with child abuse, five days after police found her three children living alone for years in ...

The neglected children had been living without an adult for at least four years when they were discovered by police.

PONTIAC, MI – A woman who abandoned her three children in a home covered in garbage, human feces and mold has been charged in ...