abandonment

Officers responded Tuesday afternoon to Zillah Intermediate School for a report of a missing child.

EVERETT  (AP) — An 18-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to abandoning her newborn in a dumpster north of Seattle after giving birth to him in a shower. The Daily Herald reports Samantha Houston of Everett pleaded guilty Wednesday to felony abandonment of a dependent child...

SEATTLE (AP) — State and federal health regulators and a police department have launched an investigation at Washington state's largest psychiatric hospital after unauthorized photos of a patient were found on an employee's personal phone...

MILTON, Wash. (AP) — A Milton man has been accused of leaving his toddler daughter in a freezing car overnight after driving her home while intoxicated. Pierce County prosecutors say Michael A. Dufour pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges of criminal mistreatment, abandonment of a dependent person and possession of methamphetamine. ...