A mother whose 4-year-old son was found dead in his Harlem apartment on Sunday has been charged with his death and is expected in court on Tuesday. Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, faces charges of criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child, WABC reported. Officers were called to the Harlem apartment shortly before 7:45 …
Two people have been arrested in California after a 2-year-old girl died from traumatic injuries consistent with abuse. Bakersfield Police officers responded to a call for a medical emergency on Thursday and took the toddler to a hospital, where she died, Bakerfield Now reported. Gregory Joseph MacDonald, 29, and Chandy Ann McCarthy, 40, were arrested …
Florida authorities arrested a man last week for stomping his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in May, causing a lacerated liver. Oscar Cedell Miller, 25, was released almost immediately on a $10,000 bond, and Miami Gardens Police didn’t explain why they waited four months to arrest him. An arrest report says the investigation began on May 25 …
West Virginia police arrested a woman on Monday after a child in handcuffs reportedly fled to a home alleging abuse. A Charleston resident called the police about a girl wearing handcuffs coming to their home and claiming they were being abused and neglected. Officers responded to the girl’s residence and arrested Laura Southworth, 54, noting …
A central Georgia mother and father have been charged after their two young children were found with injuries and hospitalized. A witness called in a report of children in danger at a home in Del Park Thursday morning, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Responding deputies found a 2-year-old boy and and 4-year-old girl with …
A Florida mother has been charged with child abuse and neglect after she allegedly shoved her 1-year-old daughter out of her car because the child spilled sjampoo. The incident happened on September 5 in Hialeah and was captured on a Ring doorbell camera, as CrimeOnline reported, but at the time it appeared the little girl …
A North Carolina man played Santa Claus at a theme park has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing children from March 2023 to March 2024. The Cherokee Indian Police Department said 78-year-old Bevier Hasbrouck Sleight III is facing 13 charges related to child abuse. The charges include aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, abusive sexual …
A Virginia couple has been arrested after police checked out a call about possible child neglect and found two young boys chained by their ankles in a Fairfax County home. Wedni Del Cid Rodriguez, 47, and Franklin Viera Guevara, 29, were both charged with two counts each of child neglect, child cruelty, and abduction, WTTG …
A Pennsylvania woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 3-year-old granddaughter in Pittsburgh. Denise Johnson, 56, was arrested Sunday and charged with homicide, aggravated assault, abuse of a corpse, and corruption of a minor, WTAE reported. The complaint says that Ayla Miller’s injuries did not appear to come from “everyday accidents.” …
A Utah couple is in jail after police found their 13-year-old son locked in an alcove under the stairs in their home, and they say they’d do it again because they’re nothing wrong with it. Travis Peterson, 49, and Melissa Gray, 42, were arrested Tueday and charged with aggravated child abuse, KSTU reported. Gray, the …
A 21-year-old Ohio mother was arrested last week after “a disturbing video” went viral, showing her screaming at and hitting her months-old baby in his crib. The video was shot by the child’s father, who posted it to social media, WHIO reported. “It was one of those things that literally went viral for all the …
A Tennessee man and woman were arrested last week and charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect and child endangerment after law enforcement found evidence the couple had been locking a 7-year-old boy with autism in a storage trunk with urine-soaked blankets and a pillow. Carter County deputies were assisting the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation …
