A San Antonio police officer was arrested this week and charged with multiple counts of injury to a child for several incidents that took place in 2024. Jacob Ryan, 24, turned himself in on Tuesday after he was indicted and an arrest warrant was issued, KSAT reported. He faces three counts of injury to a …
A Tennessee couple pleaded guilty this week to aggravated child abuse and neglect, a year and a half after one of their four adopted daughters collapsed and was subsequently discovered to be severely malnourished. Another adopted daughter, the biological sibling of the first, was found in the same condition after Jason and Jessica Klimp called …
A Wisconsin daycare worker has been charged breaking a 3-month-old girl’s arm when she slammed the child into her crib. Ashley Karschnick, 32, denied being frustrated or slamming the baby into the crib, WBAY reported. Instead, she said, the rocking of the crib from side to side seen in surveillance video of the incident was …
A Texas mother and her boyfriend were arrested earlier this month after her toddler son was brought to the hospital with severe brain trauma, including a brain bleed, bruising in various states of healing all over his body, wounds to his chest and abdomen, and anal trauma. Three-year-old Dawson Cain Zamora is reportedly on life …
A Georgia couple was arrested on child cruelty charges after their three young children were found alone and in apparent feces at a campsite in Carroll County last month. Court records say the children — ages 2, 4, and 5 — were found at Little Tallapoosa Park, where the family had been living after reportedly …
A Texas woman was arrested last week after her 11-year-old autistic son was reportedly found severely underweight and with other injuries indicative of abuse. Baytown police said that in May, Rachel Baylock’s son was found in a locked room by himself despite several other people living in the mobile home. The boy — who weighed 46 …
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 woman who was charged in Florida with poisoning an infant boy with antifreeze in February was arrested in Georgia this month. On February 12, the 11-month-old’s mother reportedly brought him to Anna Adamo, 59, with two 3.5-ounce bottles of breast milk and some packed solid food. The mother claimed she breastfed her son before …
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 …
Two Texas sisters were arrested last week and charged with abusing a 12-year-old child for months. The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office said it launched an investigation on September 28 after the child reported ongoing physical and sexual abuse. She was taken to a hospital, where staff confirmed injuries “consistent with abuse and malnutrition.” Brenda Garcia, …
A Tennessee couple was arrested this week, 10 months after their indictment on child abuse charges and nearly two years after police began in investigation into the allegations. The Washington County Sheriff’s Office was never able to locate Harry James Reed II , 26, and Alexis D. Austin, 22, however, until an anonymous tip told …
A Wisconsin man has been jailed on child abuse charges after he allegedly inflicted multiple severe injuries on his 6-week-old son and said he didn’t understand why it was considered abuse since it “isn’t intentional.” William Page, 35, has been charged with repeated physical abuse of a child intentionally causing great bodily harm, strangulation, and …
