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A Holly Hill man accused of sexually abusing two foster children in his care will remain in jail without bond.

"He had requested siblings and females or younger children."

His agency is working with law enforcement after one of its licensed foster fathers, Justin Johnson Senior, was arrested and accused of making child pornography.

The weather is warming up, but not everyone can jump in the pool.

9 Investigates continues to push for answers after a Sanford foster father was arrested and accused of creating pornography featuring the children in his care.

If the bill is passed, it will take effect on July 1.

"There's no place in hell that would accept this individual for the stuff that he has done to children," Sanford police Chief Cecil Smith said.

A Florida couple was charged Wednesday with child abuse and false imprisonment for the abuse of their adopted 14-year-old son.

“Adoptees are told to just be grateful that we were chosen. And yet so many of us are struggling.”

Police in North Carolina arrested a former college professor on first-degree murder charges, after they alleged his 6-week-old adopted son died from injuries stemming from physical abuse at his hands.

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In a wide-ranging interview, the real estate mogul opens up about her upbringing--and how it helped her as an entrepreneur and Shark Tank judge.

Thomas Rhett’s 6-year-old daughter has started asking some tough family questions, and the country star admits he’s not ready to have a deep conversation about adoption just yet.

Fathers have rights too!

MIAMI — Two days after Alysha Princess Cesaire gave birth to her son on Feb. 1, 2018, someone at Hollywood’s Memorial Regional Hospital phoned the state’s child abuse hotline to e…

Serena so desperately wants to be a mother, and I identify with that.

A dozen men are suing the state of Utah in federal court because of a law that allows mothers to put their babies up for adoption without the biological father's consent, or sometimes even knowledge. The civil rights lawsuit claims the Utah Adoption Act has resulted in what amounts to "legalized fraud and kidnapping."

A local family desperately wants to adopt their 4-year-old relative, but they say the state is preventing them from keeping the little girl in the family. Instead, the family’s lawyer says one of the employees at the adoption agency they used is trying to adopt the child.

“What’s happening at the Supreme Court is that people are using us to further their own agenda. They’re co-opting our lives and our stories.”

When Hugh Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness adopted 
a baby boy from 
a rural American family – who 
was born almost 20 years 
ago to the day amid tragic circumstances – they knew 
they faced a lifelong, incredibly emotional journey. And now that Oscar is 18, he's decided to reunite with his birth family.

Orsa Moldauer remembers watching her son Yul on the playground after school. Then 7 years old, Yul and a group of his friends took turns going across a set of monkey bars.