FALL RIVER — The father accused of abusing and starving his autistic teenage son to death pleaded guilty on Friday to charges including second degree murder and received a sentence of life in prison, ...

FALL RIVER — The girlfriend of a man whose disabled teenage son died from abuse and starvation while in the couple’s care pleaded guilty to second degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison, ...

FALL RIVER — Two years after David Almond starved to death in his Fall River home, as his father and father’s girlfriend await trial on murder charges, a newly dedicated grove in Fall River Heritage ...

Nothing is worse than the death of a child, Fall River Superintendent Matthew Malone said Wednesday, a tragedy that the school district must face as it implements changes in the months following the ...

Lawmakers probing the events leading up to 14-year-old David Almond’s death after alleged neglect and abuse found a major question unresolved: Why did the Massachusetts Department of Children and ...

Despite questions from Beacon Hill lawmakers on Tuesday, agency heads had little new insights to offer about how David Almond, the 14-year-old Fall River boy with autism spectrum disorder who died ...

A Fall River, Massachusetts, man has admitted starving his 14-year-old son with autism to death in 2020 and has pleaded guilty to murder in the case. John Almond, 36, and his girlfriend, Jacyln Marie ...

Autistic teen David Almond and his brother Michael should have never been returned to the care of their father and his girlfriend in a Fall River house of squalor where David died last October ...

“The child protective system has many built-in safeguards, both internal and external to the Department of Children and Families. All of these safeguards failed David and resulted in his untimely ...

BOSTON (SHNS) – In the first four hours of an oversight hearing Tuesday into a report from the Office of the Child Advocate on the death of a Fall River teenager with autism, lawmakers and Baker ...

David Almond was found in October 2020 in a filthy Fall River apartment, emaciated, covered in filth and unresponsive. The 14-year-old was soon dead. In August of that year, though, Mary Lou Garcia, ...

FALL RIVER — It’s been one year since 14-year-old David Almond was found emaciated and lying in excrement in a squalid apartment on Green Street, soon to be declared dead at Charlton Memorial Hospital ...