A Florida child rape victim who was forced to retract her initial accusations and write letters apologizing to her rapist and investigators has filed a lawsuit against those investigators and the man who raped her. The rapist — Henry Cadle, the victim’s uncle and adoptive father — later pleaded no contest to sexual battery and …
A babysitter has been arrested and charged with poisoning an 11-month-old Florida boy with antifreeze. Anna Marie Adamo has been charged with aggravated child abuse, attempted murder, and poisoning food or water with the intent to kill or injury, according to a probable cause affidavit filed in the case. The document says detectives began investigating …
A 73-year-old Florida man is behind bars after he tried to tried to kill his family “to get ’em up to heaven.” Allison Hatton has been charged with one count of attempted murder, one count of aggravated battery on a person over 65, and one count of assault with the intent to commit a felony,” …
A 15-year-old Virginia boy was arrested Tuesday and charged with the murder in the death of his grandmother. Police were called to a home late Tuesday afternoon and found the 63-year-old woman, identified as Christine Murray, dead, the Chesapeake Police Department said. The boy, who has not been named, was taken into custody. Police say …
A 6-month-old Georgia boy has been found dead after his father reported he was taken during an armed robbery on Sunday. The Clayton County Medical Examiner’s Office said the body of Nnakai Pratt was found Tuesday in a dumpster near the Riverdale apartment complex where his father reported him missing on Sunday, WANF reported. Pratt’s …
Eight people were killed – 5 of them children – when Kane Aaron Hammock drove his tanker truck into the back of a van, setting off the chain-reaction crash.
The Pennsylvania man who firebombed the governor’s residence earlier this year was sentenced this week to 25 to 50 years in prison. Cory Balmer entered a guilty plea to 50 counts relating to the attack after initially pleading not guilty, WFMZ reported. Gov. Josh Shapiro, his family, and guests — including eight children — were …
A Florida daycare worker has been fired after she was seen on surveillance video mistreating a child with disabilities in her care at the facility. Kaitlyn Pitzer, 36, was charged with one count of child abuse after the incident. The Hernando County Sheriff’s Office said it was called about the incident by Tender Care Prescribed …
A Virginia dad was arrested this week after daycare staff discovered a gun in his child’s backpack. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office said it was called at about 8:30 a.m. Monday after Dylan Scott Whorley, 27, dropped the child off at daycare and staff found the gun. Investigators determined that Whorley had put the gun …
A judge has granted a restraining order against a Florida congressman whose ex-girlfriend accused him of harassing her after she broke up when she learned he was seeing someone else in Washington, D.C. Lindsey Langston, a 26-year-old state Republican committee woman and the reigning Miss United States, accused US Rep. Cory Mills, 45, of threatening …
New Jersey investigators who trying to learn who killed a 34-year-old mother of two whose body was found in an Atlantic City apartment over the weekend. Christina Burdette was pronounced dead on the scene Saturday morning, and the medical examiner has ruled her death a homicide, WPVI reported. While the medical examiner has not revealed …
Authorities in Tennessee have matched a skull found in 2004 to a missing college student who disappeared in 1986. Alice Mae Sullivan, 20, was reported missing on August 29, 1986, after she failed to pick up her 3-year-old son from a babysitter’s home, The Tennesseean reported. Sullivan was a student at Tennessee State University and …
