Pass her in a mall or on the sidewalk and you'd never guess the horrors she endured throughout her childhood."I was born into a drug-addicted family," she begins. "My father was a drug addict and my mother was an alcoholic." The last thing her kids need i

Drug-addicted teens under the control of pimps are a top priority for the provincial government -- but only if they are ready to accept treatment. Peel Regional Police found a 14-year-old girl selling her body in a Mississauga motel room. For two months,

An RAF technician who shook his baby daughter to death then blamed his wife for the killing was jailed for six years and eight months today.Gareth Harries, 25, attacked eight-month-old Chloe when she would not stop crying.He initially blamed his wife Hayl

A SINGAPOREAN housewife who set her dog on an Indonesian maid was sentenced to 20 months in jail for what a prosecutor called one of the worst cases of maid abuse.Tay Siew Hoon, 53, received the sentence in court yesterday.Prosecutor Lim Tse Haw said the

Jerry Lee Williams Jr. was, authorities say, the most sinister kind of rapist: He would rape and choke, rape and choke, and sometimes he would rape and kill. All told, there were six victims, authorities allege. Two are dead.And the state couldn't stop hi

A long-simmering dispute within a North County Indian band boiled over yesterday when the tribe withheld casino profit checks from about 50 people, claiming that one of their ancestors was adopted and that as a result, they're not really Indians.Valley Vi

Hundreds of people have been arrested and 21 children rescued in what the FBI is calling a five-day roundup of networks of pimps who force children into prostitution.Officials say they are preyed upon by organized networks of pimps who lure them in with

A Winnipeg soldier guilty of assaulting his infant triplets had no intention of breaking their bones when he employed "inappropriate parenting techniques," a lawyer argued yesterday.His intention was to shock or startle the babies ... he did not intend an

A man is believed to have killed his two young children and then himself at a remote beauty spot in a Father's Day tragedy.The three, who have not yet been named, were all found dead yesterday in a car parked in a deserted country lane. Both children were

The Nassau County Commissioner of Investigations, in a report to be released Saturday, lambasted the work of Child Protective Services caseworkers investigating an abuse complaint against a New Cassel mother less than a day before her three children were