Gov. Tony Evers has signed "Ethan's Law," a law that tightens out-home-home placement restrictions in an effort to protect children from abusive guardians.

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A Tomah man has pleaded guilty to neglecting his infant son which caused the baby's death.

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A Wisconsin baby sitter who allegedly killed a 2-month-old boy then pretended he was alive when she gave the boy back to his mother has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide.

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Former Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green has pleaded not guilty to child abuse charges.

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Former Green Bay Packers running back Ahman Green was charged Monday with felony child abuse after his 15-year-old daughter told police he punched her in the face.

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A former Milwaukee Public Schools teacher's aide has pleaded not guilty to felony child abuse for pushing a student to the floor in an incident caught on video.

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A not-guilty plea has been entered for a Madison man accused of causing the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old daughter under his care last month.

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Gov. Scott Walker signed half-a-dozen bills designed to curtail child abuse and sex trafficking during visits Tuesday to law enforcement facilities around the state.

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A couple who struck their children with rods was properly convicted of child abuse, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Thursday in rejecting the defense's argument that they were following their religion.

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A Wisconsin appeals court has ruled Green Lake County and Berlin's police department are immune from claims in a child abuse case.

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A Wisconsin Assembly panel deadlocked on legislation Tuesday that would require doctors and nurses to report to child protective services when they learn one of their child patients is sexually active, a rare instance of Republicans failing to pass one of their own bills at the last minute.

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The state Assembly has approved a bipartisan bill that would require child protective agencies adopt formal procedures for investigating reports of abuse and neglect of disabled children.

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The Wisconsin Senate has passed a bill that makes repeated acts of child abuse a felony.

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A jury has convicted a Milwaukee man accused of physical abuse that prosecutors said led to the 2013 death of his infant son.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Brad Schimel and a group of Republican legislators began a push Tuesday to crack down on child abusers with a package of bills that would make repeated abuse a formal crime and expand reporting requirements.

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Opening statements are expected Monday in the trial of a Lake Geneva couple accused of abusing their six children.

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The Legislature's finance committee has decided to beef up Bureau of Milwaukee Child Welfare staffing to help reduce a backlog of child abuse complaints.

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A bill passed Thursday by the state Assembly would give Wisconsin courts jurisdiction over restraining orders or injunctions in cases of domestic, child and adult abuse, regardless of whether the alleged instances occurred in state or elsewhere.

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A state appeals court has decided a Milwaukee man accused of severely harming his 2-month-old triplet daughters by twisting their legs and breaking their bones was properly convicted.

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A Wisconsin woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for giving a lethal overdose of a narcotic painkiller to a toddler in her care and physically abusing her.

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A western Wisconsin man facing a felony child abuse charge is accused of hitting his 8-year-old son with a belt and then ordering the boy not to tell others because Minnesota Vikings football player Adrian Peterson got in trouble for disciplining his son with a wooden switch.

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The Manitowoc mother accused of beating and scalding her 5-year-old son who has Down syndrome wants her family reunited.

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A Wisconsin mother whose children police said were beaten until they were bloody and unconscious called the abuser's one-year sentence a "complete failure of the justice system."

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A 45-year-old Milwaukee man has been found guilty of sex trafficking, child abuse and related charges.

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A Portage County jury has found a 28-year-old man guilty of causing the death of his girlfriend's 2-year-old son.

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A former Balsam Lake man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for abuse that led to the death of his young son.

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A Wisconsin father convicted of abuse for starving his teenage daughter down to 68 pounds was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison.

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A Wisconsin elementary principal has been charged a second time with mishandling a 2011 child abuse report.

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Jury selection is set to begin in the re-trial of a Madison man accused of locking his teenage daughter in the basement and starving her down to 68 pounds.

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A northeastern Wisconsin couple accused of neglecting the man's daughters by withholding food from one and restraining the other with zip ties are headed to trial.

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