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A staffing crisis of lawyers for New York City children is threatening legal services for young people who have been removed from their parents, orphaned by the pandemic or otherwise involved in family court matters.

This story is being co-published with The Imprint, a national news outlet covering child welfare and youth justice issues.

Several Yukon songwriters created new music, and made new connections, through the Bell Songwriting Challenge.

Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill into law late Wednesday that will raise the lower age of juvenile delinquency from 7 to 12. It's expected to take effect in a year.

Gov. Kathy Hochul is being urged by advocates to sign a pair of juvenile justice reform measures.

In New York state, children as young as 7 can be arrested and charged as juvenile delinquents in family court. But is that age too young? It's a question being asked in the...

Children in New York can be charged as juvenile delinquents beginning at age 7, which explains why a boy of that age could be charged with rape in March in upstate Brasher Falls, New York.

“Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime.

A 7-Year-Old Was Accused of Rape. Is Arresting Him the Answer? “Science doesn’t support prosecution of second graders,” one lawyer said. Still, in New York, children as young as 7 can be charged with a crime. An arrest of a child shook tiny Brasher Falls, a hamlet near the Canadian border, and may have restarted a push in the Legislature to change New York’s law.Credit...Malik Rainey for The New York Times June 3, 2021Updated 9:43 a.m. ET At the forested edge of the Canadian border this...