Bob Greene

What can you do? That is the question many of you have been asking in the days since the reports began here about the cruel and unusual punishment of children...

The 8-year-old girl needed to be "trained." That is what came out in court testimony during the trial in Dane County, Wis., of Olga L. Jaramillo, 26, accused of forcing...

`I didn't know how to clean and keep things tidy." That is how the 8-year-old girl in Dane County, Wis., explained to medical workers and police why she was whipped...

On a Monday night just before 9 p.m., five officers of the Madison, Wis., police department arrived at an apartment at 2102 Rosenberry Rd. in that city. The officers --...

Beaten so brutally that his kidneys shut down and he could not breathe on his own, the 13-year-old boy lay in a hospital bed, hooked up to machines that performed...

At first glance, the photograph -- taken in a hospital room -- looks as if the person in it is a prizefighter who has been savagely beaten to within a...

`When I came home that night," said Dr. Andrew Morgan, "I said to my wife, `I thought I had seen everything in my field. But I have just seen the...

She was a bright, pretty, outgoing 7-year-old girl who was growing up last year in LaSalle, Ill., a town of about 10,000 residents in the north-central part of the state....

This time we were told about the tunnel -- but no one promised any light, at the end of it or anywhere inside it. It is the biggest single difference...

I've stopped asking him if he has a cold. He's someone in New York with whom I work, and with whom I often talk several times a week. Like all...