A Georgia couple has been charged with trying to starve their 10-year-old son to death. A neighbor found the boy wandering alone in his neighborhood on Friday after he escaped the home. Griffin police reported that he was barefoot and hungry and begged to not be taken back home, WAGA reported. “As a mother, I …
An Oklahoma man with an apparent fascination with Nazism will likely die behind bars for inflicting horrific abuse on a 3-year-old girl that included the use of a shock collar, restraints and cold showers, Fox 23 reports. This week, a Rogers County judge sentenced 27-year-old Gustus Pennington to six life sentences in prison after he …
A Texas mother is accused of tying her son to a seatbelt and then dragging him down a highway as punishment for insulting her, KFDX-TV reports. On May 2, authorities arrested 61-year-old Marion Luise Stade in connection with the allegations, which reportedly occurred earlier in the day. The situation began when someone called the Archer …
A Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly fractured the skull of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son with a mop handle because the boy urinated in his bed. An arrest report says Shawn Stone, 32, was charged with aggravated child abuse after the girlfriend watched the incident unfold in a camera on her phone, WOFL …
Police in West Virginia have arrested three people after a 2-year-old twin boy was hospitalized on Monday in an apparent case of child abuse. WCHS reported that emergency crews responded to a Jackson County home for a toddler boy who was unresponsive due to malnutrition and dehydration. The boy’s parents, Michael and Lylee Gillenwater, 24 …
The wife of a Baltimore mother convicted in the death of her 4-year-old son in 2019 has also pleaded guilty in the boy’s death. Malachi Lawson was scalded in a bath and left without medical attention for nine days before he died, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The stepmom, Shatika Lawson, was allegedly distracted on the …
An Ohio woman was arrested last week for allegedly injecting her 9-month-old daughter with an unknown substance at a hospital. On Friday, Columbus police responded to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where the baby was being treated. Hospital staff told cops that the baby’s parents were in the room with the mother, Stephanie Whitley, 26, who injected her …
A car belonging to a North Carolina couple wanted for child abuse was found abandoned 260 miles away in a mobile home park in Georgia. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said that Brandon Augustine, 24, and Mildred Chestnut, 23, brought their 4-month-old son to Atrium Hospital on March 20 and said they’d been in a minor accident, WXIA …
A Scottish man is behind bars after police say they found over 49 images of child abuse on a memory card hidden inside a Bible. STV News reports that 36-year-old James McBride pleaded guilty Thursday to possessing inappropriate images of children; the victims ranged in age from two months old to 12. The images, according …
On Monday, Indiana police arrested a man who allegedly admitted to seriously injuring his 2-month-old son. WXIN reported that Aaron Evans, 19, abused the infant because he pulled his nose ring and was being loud as he had a migraine. The baby was admitted to the hospital with bruises on his body and a healing …
A San Antonio couple grew suspicious last year when their toddler daughter’s behavior changed after she started attended Mossrock KinderCare. “My daughter changed drastically. She had started being really, really violent. Hitting, kicking, screaming,” said Carly Hernandez, who also said the little girl stopped responding to her name and lost weight. And then, she said, …
A father has been charged was charged Wednesday with child abuse in the death of his three-month old so, who the coroner said “may have been tortured.” According to WHNS, Malachi Tate brought his son, Malachi Jr, to Cherokee Medical Center on March 18 after he reportedly found the infant unresponsive in the apartment. Doctors …
