A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury awarded a girl $26 million in connection with a 2016 sexual assault case at a Pasadena school. According to OC Register, the incident happened at the Focus Point Academy after a teacher’s aide for the school’s special education program left the 11-year-old unsupervised. Three male students dragged the …
A Texas school board on Wednesday fired its district police chief, three months to the day after a gunman killed 19 4th graders and two teachers at a school under his purview. Uvalde School District Police Chief Pete Arredondo was widely criticized for response to the shooting, in which dozens of police officers stood by …
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An 11-year-old North Carolina boy saw a toddler slip away from his mother and jump into a swimming pool earlier this month, and when he couldn’t get anyone’s attention to help, he just rescued the boy himself. Max Belward was at the pool but not swimming that day because he was recovering from swimmer’s ear, …
A 23-year-old Ohio man has been charged with abusing his girlfriend’s two children, including fracturing an 18-month-old boy’s vertebrae and damaging his spine. Nathan Sanders faces two charges each of felonious assault and endangering children for allegedly choking the boy and a 3-year-old girl, WKRC reports. “It’s an absolutely abominable set of facts, judge,” said …
A Florida man was sentenced to multiple life sentences last week for abusing and torturing his 11-year-old stepson. The boy was rescued by an Orlando restaurant manager who noticed something wrong when Timothy Lee Wilson, 36, didn’t let the boy order food, and she saw bruises on the child’s face, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Flavaine …
The jury also ordered Los Angeles County to pay $15 million to co-plaintiff Chris Chester, whose wife and daughter were killed in the crash.
The New York State Court of Appeals has granted an appeal to disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein and will hear arguments on whether he deserves a new trial. Weinstein was convicted of rape in 2020 and sentenced to 23 years in prison, as CrimeOnline previously reported. In June, an appeals court rejected arguments that the …
Earlier this month, a West Virginia judge ordered a man to pay $500,000 in child support — not for his own child, but for the daughter of the man he fatally shot in 2016. Bobby Thompson, 34, was sentenced to 15 years in 2017 for voluntary manslaughter for killing Raymond Chapman, 22. Chapman was paying …
A Kentucky grand jury indicted a nurse on a murder charge this week after an investigation determined she injected an elderly patient with “something special” while he was agitated, ultimately causing his death. Lexington police say the May 5 death of 97-year-old James Morris at Baptist Health Lexington was “a direct result” of the actions …
An Air Force technical sergeant was arrested Monday on his South Carolina base and charged with child pornography and sexual exploitation of children. South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson’s office said that Tech. Sgt. David Wayne Crouse, 37, was taken into custody Monday morning by the Shaw Air Force Base Office of Special Investigations and …
OnlyFans model and Instagram influencer Courtney Clenney was arrested on charges that she stabbed her boyfriend to death at a Miami high-rise. Christian Obumseli, 27, was fatally stabbed inside the couple’s apartment. An attorney for Clenney says that the 25-year-old “was a victim of physical, emotional, and mental abuse at the hands of Obumseli” and …
