A Florida couple was arrested Sunday for allegedly keeping their son handcuffed in a closet for 16 hours a day, starting on Christmas. Police were investigating a missing child report at a Tampa residence when they located the victim and learned he was hiding in the home. Shortly after, authorities returned to the residence to …
A Utah man is facing charges after police say he beat his child for bringing home bad grades. Fox Salt Lake City reports that the incident happened Tuesday after an 11-year-old boy was taken to the Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City with multiple concussions. Authorities interviewed the child, who said that his father …
The former wife of a man arrested earlier this month for allegedly abusing his stepson opened up after she heard the news about his arrest. In an interview with DailyMailTV, Amanda Powell said she ended her marriage with Timothy Wilson II because he wouldn’t stop beating her children. As CrimeOnline previously reported, an incident that happened …
A restaurant server with quick-thinking skills helped rescue a young boy who was reportedly a victim of severe child abuse. Click Orlando reports that the incident happened on New Year’s Day at a Mrs. Potato restaurant in Orlando. According to authorities, a man and an 11-year-old boy sat down at a table in the restaurant …
A live-in nanny in New York reportedly seriously injured a 3-month-old boy in her care by shaking him. Police sources told the New York Post that Alexis Schultz admitted shaking the infant at a Brooklyn home because she was hungry and overwhelmed while caring for the baby and his sister. The infant reportedly suffered a …
A South Carolina man was arrested outside Atlanta on Wednesday after fleeing charges that he killed his girlfriend’s baby last year, the Island Packet reports. Frederick Luma, 27, is being held in the Clayton County Jail awaiting extradition to Beaufort, South Carolina, where he is expected to be charged with homicide by child abuse. Luma …
A Michigan girl is dead and police say it happened at the hands of her mother’s boyfriend a day after Children’s Protective Services checked up on her. ABC 7 reports that Samuel Lester Smart is accused of torturing 3-year-old Trinity Chandler, inside a home Saturday in Groveland Township. According to prosecutors, Smart is the boyfriend …
A man found overdosing last week in a home with a dead 4-year-old girl and a woman who later died has been charged with willful child cruelty and harm to a child resulting in death, Riverside County jail records show. Tyler Lawrence Finley, 25, was booked over the weekend, Beaumont, California, police said, after he …
Deputies in rural central Missouri are investigating the death of a four-year-old girl who died early Sunday morning, her father said, when she was “beaten, submerged in a pond, then left to freeze on the bank,” the Benton County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Mast, 28, called 911 just before 1 a.m. — when temperatures in …
An Arkansas man was charged with murder this week in the death of his girlfriend’s 17-month-old child left in his care, the Conway Police Department said. Jonathan Chatman, 30, appeared at a video hearing on Friday in Conway, where a judge set bail at $500,000, the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported. Conway officers were notified Wednesday when …
A west Tennessee mother has been jailed after her 14-month-old son died from severe burns over nearly half his body caused by scalding hot bath water , Union City police said. Laureen McArthur, 27, was arrested in Cullman, Alabama, and returned to Obion County, Tennessee, on Monday. She’s been charged with child abuse and negligent …
A Missouri foster mother faces four counts of felony child abuse after two young sisters in her care were found with multiple injuries, including one with a lacerated spleen and liver. Jennifer L. Chambers, 42, took the youngest girl, whose age was not given, to Freeman Hospital in Joplin on November 23 at the insistence …
