FUKUOKA--Calls are growing for specific legal provisions that penalize sex crimes against intellectually disabled people without heavily relying on the testimonies of the victims. Sexual abuse is ...

The Chiba District Court has handed down a suspended sentence to a 78-year-old man accused of killing his severely intellectually disabled 44-year-old son, whom he was caring for at home. The court ...

Zhang Baolin, from the China Association of Persons with Intellectual Disability and their Relatives, said despite the incentive to be exempt from the fund, employers are still reluctant to recruit ...

A Riverland man has been jailed for having sex with his intellectually disabled adult daughter – with a court then told of his repulsive past. Graphic warning. The man, who cannot be named to avoid ...

Anti-death penalty and disability advocates have criticized how Georgia handled intellectual disability in death penalty cases, because defendants had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that they were ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. More details are emerging tonight about the treatment of an intellectually disabled Aboriginal man who ...

Reginald Jackson has been ruled intellectually disabled and therefore ineligible for the death penalty, upholding a ...

Gov. Josh Shapiro and his top human services official said Wednesday that the administration has a plan to end a waiting list of thousands of families who are considered to be in dire need of help for ...

A recently filed lawsuit alleges the Allegheny County Office of Children Youth and Families (CYF) intentionally discriminated against an intellectually disabled couple so a non-disabled couple could ...