A former Indiana daycare director will spend six months behind bars for giving children melatonin gummies without their parents’ permission. On Friday, Tonya Rachelle Voris, 53, was sentenced after pleading guilty last year to felony neglect and misdemeanor reckless supervision by a childcare provider. In addition to six months behind bars, she’ll serve 18 months …
An 8-year-ld Kentucky girl is hospitalized and her parents behind bars after the child showed up at a neighbor’s front door Thursday night covered in bruises. Austin, 27, and Kayla Frazier, 31, were charged with first degree criminal child abuse of a child under 12, according to WSAZ. An arrest report says the 8-year-old gold …
A Mississippi woman is facing child neglect charges after she allegedly brought her toddler to Walmart dressed only in a diaper amid freezing temperatures, WJTV reports. Around 10:30 a.m. on January 17, police in Byram, southwest of Jackson, were called to the store and found 26-year-old Kambria Gabrielle Darby in the parking lot. It was …
A Milwaukee police officer was suspended on Saturday after he was charged with physical abuse of a child and strangulation and suffocation. A criminal complaint against Frank Williams, 30, says that Milwaukee police were called to Children’s Hospital Wisconsin on Wednesday for a report of child abuse, WISN reported. Sgt. Zachery Thoms responded to the …
An Oklahoma pastor and his wife have been charged with child abuse, kidnapping, and child neglect of as many as eight children. Blackwell Police say Keith and Candy Holt beat the children with a board and locked them in a bathroom for days without food or water as a punishment, KOKH reported. Police Chief Jay …
Three people have been arrested after apartment maintenance workers found a malnourished toddler with her ankles duct taped together in November. Court documents say that Kenry Joseph Flukers, Toniesha Deshae Perkins, and Mya Jhari Breaux-McGruder have been charged with injury to a child by omission and unlawful restraint, KTRK reported. The three are accused of …
Atlanta police are currently investigating the reasons behind the failure to conduct welfare checks on a family, despite receiving three requests from social services. Two weeks before Christmas, 4-year-old Treasure McWeay passed away from starvation. Her father, Rodney Weaver, 31, who appeared at a hearing Thursday at the Fulton County Magistrate Court, is now facing …
A Florida woman was arrested over the weekend after she allegedly sent a video and an image of her beating and abusing an infant to her ex-boyfriend, the father of the little girl. The ex-boyfriend flagged down a North Miami Police officer early Saturday evening and showed what he’d received, WPLG reported. According to the …
A Tennessee mother and her boyfriend have been arrested after her 2-year-old son died three days after he was allegedly thrown against a wall. Deputies responded to a call on December 2 to a Baxter home and found the toddler, Ventura Mora-Francisco, unresponsive, WSMV reported. The boy was taken to a nearby hospital and then …
The former business partner of recently-convicted YouTube vlogger, Ruby Franke, has a history of child abuse allegations, spanning back to 2010. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Franke and her business partner, Jody Hildebrandt, were arrested in August when one of Hildebrandt’s neighbors called the police to report that a child knocked on their door, asking for …
A Utah man who served two years in prison for breaking a child’s arm was charged last week with killing a 2-year-old boy and seriously injuring the child’s twin sister. Jonathan Allen Dunn as been charged with aggravated murder, aggravated child abuse, and two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, The Associated Press …
A retired elementary school teacher from Long Island has been arrested on charges he sexually abused students decades ago. Assistant Suffolk County District Attorney Dana Castaldo said that Thomas Bernagozzi, 75, faces counts of sexual conduct against a child and sodomy relating to two students, one in 1989 and one in 1997, Newsday reported. Suffolk …
