An Illinois man was charged last week with battery for abusing his two-month-old baby after he admitted he was “overstimulated and overwhelmed” while taking care of his child. The Peoria County State Attorney’s Office said that Bartonville Police received a report of child abuse from the Department of Children and Family Services on June 3. …
A 6-year-old Kentucky girl is in critical condition and her mother in jail on attempted murder charges after she allegedly beat the little girl in the head with a hammer. Louisville Metro Police officers responded to the call at about 12:45 p.m. on Thursday and found the girl with multple blunt force injuries to her …
A Florida dad was arrested this week and charged with manslaughter and child neglect after he left his 18-month-old son in his vehicle while he got a haircut and stopped into a bar for drinks. The toddler died after being left in the back seat for hours on June 6, with his body temperature reaching …
A man wanted for killing his mother and stepfather in Arizona earlier this week was shot and killed by Missouri state troopers on Tuesday. The Snowflake-Taylor Police Department responded to a welfare check call on Sunday night and found Cynthia Templeton, 53, and Troy Templeton, 62, dead from apparent gunshot wounds, KNXV reported. Police were …
A Long Island child therapist pleaded guilty in federal court this week to sharing sexually explicit videos of children. Renee “Rina” Hoberman, 37, was initially arrested on October 23, Newsday reported, after posing online as an adult male who bragged about sexually abusing his own children. She sent two video via the Kik app that …
A Wisconsin man and woman have been charged in an alleged plot to poison several of his ex-girlfriends with cyanide. The arrests of Paul Van Duyne and Andrea Whitaker prompted a hazmat investigation at several locations in Madison this week, WMTV reported. Dane County Deputy District Attorney William Brown released information about the case at …
Police in Kentucky arrested three people after finding three children and a disabled adult living in what one officer said were the “worst” living conditions they’d ever seen. Police executed a search warrant at the Harrodsburg home at about 11:30 p.m. last week while conducting a child neglect investigation, WDKY reported. They found three children …
An Iowa man opened fire on his girlfriend and her five children, ages 1 to 13, inside a minivan in Tennessee over the weekend, killing a 4-year-old girl and leaving two other children critically wounded. Metro Nashville Police said the incident took place Saturday night in Madison, where the 41-year-old woman and her children were …
A 70-year-old resident of Florida’s The Villages retirement community was arrested earlier this month after a Sam’s Club shopper filmed video of him urinating on products in the store. Officials said Patrick Francis Mitchell urinated on more than $10,000 worth of Spam and Vienna sausages, Villages-News.com reported. The incident took place on May 30 when …
A Florida man told deputies he “felt bad ” after slashing another man with a machete, so he took his victim to the hospital. Angel Ramos-Arce, 35, was arrested on Monday and charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and aggravated battery causing bodily harm, Law&Crime reported. The incident took place outside a convenience …
A South Carolina state legislator, founding member of the state’s ultra-conservative Freedom Caucus, was arrested this week and charged with 10 counts of distributing child sexual abuse material. Robert John “RJ” May III appeared in federal court on Thursday and entered a not guilgy plea, but he was ordered held without bond, the South Carolina …
An upstate South Carolina couple has been charged with mistreating animals and neglecting their teenage daughter after the took off for Florida, leaving the girl home alone with a house full of dead animals. Union Police officers were called to the home on May 27, apparently for the animals at the home. The found 17-year-old …
