Survivors of Burlington’s St. Joseph’s Orphanage — a long-shuttered institution with a dark legacy of abuse — gathered with supporters and public officials in Kieslich Park on Friday afternoon to ...

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodian authorities said Monday they had shut a foreign-run orphanage that is suspected of beating its children and carrying out human trafficking. Officials and a rights ...

Many former residents of the orphanage reported abuse by Catholic leaders. A memorial honoring residents of the former St. Joseph's Orphanage, where many children described abuse at the hands of ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont’s top law enforcement officer said Monday a two-year investigation into allegations of murder at a long-closed Burlington orphanage found no evidence of such crimes and ...

Mugshot of Michael Karl Geilenfeld, 71, who is accused of sexually abusing boys at the orphanage he founded in Haiti. Dozens of impoverished Haitian boys looked up to Michael Geilenfeld as a “father ...

MARY, Turkmenistan -- Turkmenistan's state media often describe the country's orphanages as a safe and happy place that provides an idyllic childhood for its kids. But 27-year-old Mahym, who grew up ...

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. — A federal judge on Friday sentenced the 73-year-old founder of a Haitian orphanage to 210 years in prison after calling him the “worst of the worst” in a devastating child ...

A 73-year-old Colorado man was sentenced to 210 years in federal prison on Friday after a federal jury in Florida convicted him of charges related to his sexual abuse of boys in an orphanage he ...

A memorial honoring residents of the former St. Joseph's Orphanage, where many children described abuse at the hands of Catholic leaders, will be unveiled in Burlington. The Voices of St. Joseph's ...