An Alabama nurse is facing felony charges after allegedly torturing and abusing her minor adoptive daughter. According to Al.com, a 39-year-old Trussville resident Kala Blakely, who manages a family health care clinic in Moody, has been charged with the attempted murder of a 12-year-old girl. Court documents indicate that an investigation began in January after …
While it wasn’t clear just how long the children had been abandoned in the apartment, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said it was an “extended” period of time, “and I emphasize ‘extended.'”
New York police on Saturday arrested a man who punched an 11-year-old girl in the face and traded blows with a 15-year-old boy who came to her defense. Nathaniel DiRenzo, 29, was seen on video attacking the girl on Wednesday in Gramercy Park’s Stuyvesant Square Park, the New York Daily News reported. The incident began, …
A Texas man is accused of so violently abusing his son – including holding him underwater, hitting him with a baseball bat, and slamming him against a wall – that the child now has post-traumatic stress disorder, KPRC-TV reports. Authorities allege that James Walker, 40, harmed his 10-year-old son multiple times between September and December …
An Indiana couple has been arrested after a hospital called police and reported a 3-year-old with critical injuries inconsistent with the story told by the child’s father and girlfriend. Derek Pierce, 31, and Dakota McHenry, 25, have been charged with neglect of an infant causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice; Pierce also faces …
A Colorado man and woman are facing charges after police say they severely abused their 6-week-old twins. According to Fox News, deputies in Jefferson County responded after hospital staff contacted them about an infant boy brought in with significant injuries. While at the hospital, deputies learned that the victim had a twin brother at home. …
An Iowa man has been charged with murder in the death of his six-month-old son who was found unresponsive in an Iowa Falls apartment in March. In addition to first-degree murder, Nicholas Edward Cox, 22, also faces a charge of child endangerment causing death, the Times Citizen reported. Iowa Falls Police said they were called …
A Missouri dad has been charged with murder following the death of his 8-month-old daughter last month. The Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Office said the little girl was found dead on August 20 while she was in the care of Dillon Snider, 24. An autopsy determined she died from violent trauma to the head and …
A Las Vegas mother shot her boyfriend after he allegedly threw her 5-year-daughter from a third-floor balcony because he believed the little girl “was full of bad spirits.” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said they responded to a call Sunday afternoon and found the unconscious child, who was taken to the hospital, and man with gunshot …
A father is speaking out after his biological child was named as one of the children abused by a Tennessee adoptive mother and her adult son. Coletta Gorman and her biological son, Alvin Jensen, 30 appeared in court Monday on child abuse charges, stemming from three adoptive children that lived with them in a Cheathem …
One-year-old Legacy Beauford bled to death on Thursday, a lacerated liver causing internal bleeding that wouldn’t stop. He also had bruises all over his body and on his face. He had several broken ribs. And he’d been sodomized with a toothbrush, the New York Post reported. New York police have arrested 23-year-old Keishawn Gordon, the …
A Nebraska man was sent to prison for up to 52 years last week after he pleaded guilty to wrapping a scarf around a toddler’s neck and repeatedly hanging her until she lost consciousness. David J. Coleman, 38, videotaped the abuse he heaped on his then-girlfriend’s 2-year-old daughter last December, the Omaha World-Herald reports. Coleman, …
