A former Alabama couple has been sentenced to a combined 1,161 years in prison for sexually abusing two juvenile family members, allegations that first surfaced in 2007, WIAT reports. Lisa Marie Lesher, 41, was sentenced Monday to 738 years after her conviction on October 1 on two counts of rape in the first degree, four …
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl and uploading videos to the Kik messenger app, the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. John D. Taylor, 32, was arrested on Friday, the sheriff’s office said. He’s being held without bail on one count of sexual battery on a child, …
A south Florida woman is in critical condition after her boyfriend allegedly set her on fire early Monday, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said. Noe Jimenez-Cortes, 40, was taken into custody Monday evening in North Lauderdale, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies are investigating the incident as an attempted murder. Jimenez-Cortes has not yet been booked, according …
Newly released phone calls between a Kansas woman and her dad raise questions without easy answers about her mother, who’s been missing for more than a year. Ellie Green, 19, last saw Angela Green on June 20, 2019, as CrimeOnline previously reported. Since then, Ellie’s father, Geoff Green, has said she died of a stroke …
US Marshals in Virginia completed a 5-day “Operation Find Our Children” this week, recovering 27 previously missing kids as well as confirming six others were actually with their legal guardians. The marshals were assisted in the operation by the Virginia Department of Social Services, medical professionals and experts from the National Center for Missing and …
The parents of a 2-year-old East Tennessee girl have been charged with child abuse and neglect after the toddler was found walking down the middle of a Greeneville street with cuts on her bare feet. Two witnesses found the littler girl shortly after 2 a.m. on Tuesday and called police, staying with her until police …
A babysitter in rural Colorado was shot to death Thursday night while trying to prevent an auto theft, and the suspect also tried to kill the babysitter’s young charge before fleeing the scene. Trevor George, 32, was arrested hours later at a Fort Collins gas station in a Dodge Challenger he stole after running from …
New York police are looking for a man they say clubbed an elderly man with a barbecue grill brush Monday morning and just walked on. Frances Corrales, 78, was walking home from a drug store when he was attacked. “He passed by me, and he attacked me,” Corrales told ABC7. “He just attacked me, hit …
Two members of a white supremacist group were charged this week with multiple felonies after an investigation alleged that they terrorized a Michigan family at their home, posting photographs and messages to their followers urging further harassment. Justen Watkins, 25, and Alfred Gorman, 35, thought they were at the home of an anti-fascist podcaster, the …
A south Alabama couple already charged with child sex abuse have now had child pornography added to their charge sheet, WSFA reports. John Bright, 49, and Tiffany Hughes, 32, were initially arrested in September when the Dale County Sheriff’s Office received a tip about sexual abuse involving a minor child under the age 12 and …
An Ohio judge on Thursday ordered an 11-year-old boy jailed while he awaits trial for allegedly shooting and killing a 6-year-old neighbor, Fox 8 said. The boy is charged with reckless homicide in the death of King Pleasant, who was shot while playing outside near his home in Canton on September 14. The 6-year-old’s family …
A five-year police veteran in New Jersey is facing charges this week after he allegedly sexted an 18-year-old woman he had just arrested. Neptune City Police Officer Damien Broschart, 29, has been charged with fourth degree cyber harassment and third degree hindering apprehension of oneself over the incident, which took place earlier this month, the …
