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The Child Protection Services investigation against Mariah Carey has been dropped.

Mariah Carey was visited by Child Protective Services shortly after giving birth to her twins.

A 25-YEAR-OLD woman has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder after a prematurely born baby boy was found decapitated in her US trailer home.

A QUIET mobile home park nestled among towering evergreens reeled yesterday in the aftermath of an unthinkable crime: five children slain in their own home, apparently by their father, who subsequently committed suicide.

The mother of the octuplets born in the US last month apparently has bigger worries than taking care of her 14 children, it was revealed today.

A nine-year-old boy accused of methodically shooting dead his father and his father’s roommate pleaded guilty to negligent homicide.

A WOMAN who took in a family recovering from Hurricane Katrina has been arrested and charged with kidnapping after authorities said she refused to return five children to their mother and went on the run with them for a month.

Texas child welfare chiefs have asked a judge to put eight children from a polygamist sect’s ranch back into foster care because their mothers refuse to limit their contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages.

IN the windowless front rooms of a former day care centre in a tiny Texas community, children as young as five were fed powerful painkillers they knew as “silly pills” and forced to perform sex shows for a crowd of up to 100 adults.

Texas child welfare authorities appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children from a polygamist sect’s ranch was unjustified, but they also agreed to reunite 12 children with their parents while the case moves on.

THE six-year-old son of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs did not suffer physical or sexual abuse while living with his mother at the group’s Texas ranch, a child welfare case worker testified yesterday.

A mother taken from a polygamist sect in Texas and being held as a minor in state custody has given birth to a baby boy who was immediately taken into protective custody.

More than half the teenage girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state authorities said today.

Child welfare officials and police today removed a busload of children from a secretive Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.

IN A confrontation captured on video, a hospital security guard fired a stun gun to stop a defiant father from taking home his newborn, sending both man and child crashing to the floor.

Drivers swerved cars and trucks into other lanes to avoid a three-year-old boy, wearing only a nappy and T-shirt, who was playing along a busy highway after wandering away from home while his mother slept, police said.

Police have arrested the mother of a young boy whose neighbours took turns caring for him and waited weeks to call police after she went shopping and did not return.

A US mother turned herself in to police to face a child battery charge, eight days after a nationally televised video-tape depicted her shaking, slapping and punching her four-year-old daughter in a store car park.

A US judge has allowed the mother of a hyperactive child to carry on giving him cannabis.