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 …
A jury is deadlocked in the case of a Georgia man whose wife allegedly killed his 8-year-old daughter in January. Natalia Barros, 34, is believed to have fatally beat Sayra Barros with a wooden rolling pin at their Bethlehem home. The woman’s husband, Cledir Barros, is on trial for child cruelty — as prosecutors say …
A Texa mother was sentenced Friday to 60 years in prison for poisoning her daughter. The Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO), Jesika Lynn Jones, 32, will serve time on convictions that include injury to a child and danger to a child, in connection with the 2022 poisoning. Police said Jones administered Benadryl to “fake a …
A viral video showing a Georgia man apparently hitting a toddler in a Lilburn grocery store parking lot led to the man’s arrest on child cruelty charges. Gwinnett County Police said they were notified about the video on Saturday, after it had been viewed thousands of times, Detectives responded to the Kroger store where the …
A Florida deputy sheriff and his wife were arrested last month after their son told a pastor at a church that they had been abusing him for years and that he didn’t want to go home. Christopher Turney, 40, was fired from his job with the Escambia County Sheriff’s Office after his arrest on charges …
A mother who pleaded guilty in Texas in the death of her 5-year-old son three years ago was sentenced Tuesday to 15 years in prison. Nickolle Aguillar agreed to plead guilty to a charge of serious bodily injury to a child by omission, and District Judge Velia Meza gave her the maximum sentence allowed, KSAT …
Deputies in Oklahoma have arrested a man and his girlfriend after they found his 15-year-old daughter tied to a tree, where she’d been for at least 24 hours. Johnny James, 40, told investigators his daughter had developmental issues and he didn’t know any other way to prevent her from urinating and defecating indoors because she …
A North Carolina couple was arrested over the weekend after family members requested a welfare check on their 10-month-old baby after finding “bruises and other unexplained markings” on the infant’s body. The Iredell County Sheriff’s Office said it began its investigation on July 23 and found “several bruises and injuries” on the child. The baby …
Police in South Carolina arrested a man and a woman Saturday after they allegedly left a baby in their running car for several hours in a mall parking lot. Spartanburg Police said they were called to Westgate Mall at about 1:30 p.m. by a woman who said she had first seen the car when she …
A Florida woman was arrested Thursday on child abuse charges after she rolled her Jeep into a ditch, trapping her baby in the back seat, and told a witness not to call 911. Josefina Lopez, 21, was charged with DUI with property damage, and abuse, aggravated abuse, and neglect of a child, WKMG reported. The …
A Kentucky woman was arrested on Sunday afer her 20-month-old child overdosed on drugs. Jasmine Bartolo was charged with four counts of first-degree wanton endangerment, first degree criminal child abuse 12 or under, possession of marijuana, and trafficking in carfentanil or fentanyl derivative, the Hopkinsville Police Department said in a statement. Police said they were …
A Kentucky woman was arrested last month for keeping her 10-year-old daughter in a dog kennel for days. Sheila Mann, 31, allegedly abused her daughter from January through March of this year. Mann’s daughter not only claimed her mother tried to slit her throat, but she also strangled her for a brief period, according to …
