Concerns disability hate crime under-reported

Disability hate crime could still be under-reported despite an increase in the number of people coming forward, police have ...

Disability hate crime: 'It's the worst I've experienced it'

Home Office statistics suggest disability related hate crime is falling, but Steven Lacey's lived experience paints a ...

How disability compounds violence against women

Assault and abuse are often perpetrated by the systems and caregivers meant to protect such women, making it harder for them ...
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Man found guilty of sex crimes against individual with mental disability

ALBANY, N.Y. (WRGB) — A New York man was convicted on felony sex charges against an individual with a mental disability. Carl Barton, 58, was convicted of criminal sex act in the second degree and ...
The Conversation

Deaf women are twice as likely to experience domestic violence. How perpetrators weaponise disability

Victoria University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. The alarming rise in reports of domestic violence and intimate-partner homicides has led to increased media attention and ...

Disability advocacy organization sues Ohio over release of records tied to alleged abuse

A disability advocacy organization has sued the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health, accusing the agency of withholding ...
Times Union

Disability group accuses state of blocking access to abuse records

Disability Rights New York is investigating a private residential school where students allegedly subjected to physical abuse and inhuman living conditions Disability Rights New York filed a lawsuit ...
WTVF

Tennessee DCS sued for 'abuse, violence' against children with disabilities

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A new lawsuit pinpoints accusations of violence and abuse of Tennessee children in the custody of the Department of Children's Services. Disability Rights Tennessee filed the ...