Singer Sinéad O’Connor is questioning the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service in Ireland after the organization reportedly “failed” her suicidal son. According to the Independent.ie, 17-year-old Shane O’Connor was found dead Saturday in Bray, Ireland. His mother, O’Connor, posted on social media that her son, who reportedly had two previous suicide attempts, was missing. …
Family members accused of killing a 6-year-old Illinois boy apparently tried to punish him before this death, according to reports, leaving the child’s father heartbroken. During a court hearing Sunday, prosecutors said that the mother Damari Perry, identified as Jannie Perry, told relatives the boy was going to be punished for “something he’d done,” ABC …
The 18-year-old mother of a newborn has been charged with child abuse and attempted murder after leaving the infant in a dumpster. Police in Hobbs, New Mexico — about three miles from the Texas state line — responded to a call at about 8 p.m. Friday night, and paramedics transported the baby to hospital in …
A North Carolina man has been arrested and charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son on New Year’s Eve. Keshawn Rashard Ayers, 26, was arrested Friday night in Fayetteville, the Fayetteville Observer said. The tolddler was in Ayers’s care on December 31 when he reportedly became unresponsive. First responders took the …
A South Florida man and woman stand accused of kidnapping and torturing a man for three days last month, including making him drink bleach and threatening to force him to eat his own feces. Police said Marie Dorsainvil, 51, and Occius Dorsainvil, 56, lured the victim to an apartment, where they bound him in chains, …
A 6-year-old North Chicago boy reported missing on Wednesday and found dead Friday night in Indiana was actually killed late last month while being “punished,” prosecutors said Sunday. Damari Perry’s bother, 20-year-old Jeremiah Perry made his first court appearance Sunday morning, and prosecutors used the opportunity to describe Damari’s final hours. Lake County, Illinois, prosecutors …
A South Carolina woman was arrested last week when she reportedly grabbed a deputy’s taser and bit a paramedic’s groin. But those incidents came after Gina Darlene McGehee, 63, dropped her nephew — apparently a minor — off at the Charleston County jail on December 28, saying he’d taken a cell phone from her car …
An upstate New York woman was kidnapped and brutally tortured by her estranged husband and his girlfriend for days, abuse that allegedly included cutting off a finger, sexual assault, and an attempted drowning, the Albany Times Union reports. Police have arrested 31-year-old Justin Wilson and 35-year-old Nicole Elmore; both are accused of kidnapping, sodomizing, whipping, …
There may be a fifth victim of the so-called “shopping cart killer,” the alleged serial killer in Virginia and around Washington, D.C., who leaves his victims in shopping carts. Police on Friday said they had received a “critical tip” that may link the killer to the death of a woman whose body was found in …
Actor Alec Baldwin this weekend sought to quash any doubts about his cooperation with law enforcement investigating the fatal shooting on a New Mexico film set last year, CNN reports. On Saturday, Baldwin posted a video to Instagram telling viewers that he was working with authorities and that any suggestion he is not complying with a search warrant …
