BOGOTÁ, Colombia — The boy had been in the child-welfare system for nearly two years, and his court-appointed guardian was running out of options. Brought to Bogotá by his Venezuelan mother ...

In September 2023, the State Department had chosen Colombia as a focus country for ending recruitment and signed the U.S.-Colombia Child Protection Compact, which included $10 million for projects ...

Rebel groups are posting flashy videos on TikTok and Facebook to recruit minors with promises of money, luxury, and even ...

Antonio Velez-Lopez, a former priest with a child molestation conviction who was stripped of his American citizenship, has been sentenced to a year in prison. Fox News reports that US Immigration ...

A 137-year-old loophole allowed for child marriages. For more than a century, the Colombian civil code had a loophole that allowed children under 18 to be married with parental consent.

Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent. The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights ...

Immigration officers arrested a Colombian man in State College He's accused of raping a child. Julio Cesar Henao-Cordoba, 38, has been wanted by Panamanian law enforcement since 2022.

Melissa Guida-Richards is pictured with her mother. She had been adopted from Colombia as a baby but only found out about her past by accident when she was 19.

Crime Former Colombian priest, child molester sentenced for passport fraud and stripped of US citizenship In February, Antonio Velez-Lopez, 69, was denaturalized as a U.S. citizen and ordered ...

Colombia’s congress has voted to change a law that allowed minors to get married with parental consent. The proposal would make the minimum age for marriage 18, and seeks to protect the rights ...