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 …
Four people have been jailed in southwestern Missouri after a 4-year-old boy was found unresponsive and suffering from “extreme malnutrition” last month, the Stone County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. The boy’s mother, Dessa Barton, and her boyfriend, Dalton McLendon, both 26, were arrested on November 6, jail records show, when deputies and medical teams responded …
An Idaho man was arrested this week on five counts of raping teenage girls between 2007 and 2014 in several locations, including his home and an RV camper. In addition to the five counts of rape, Trenton Jared Powell, 41, has also been charged with two counts of lewd conduct with a minor. He was …
A California grandfather has been arrested after a 20-month-old girl was found dead in his Modesto apartment while he was being treated for an unknown ailment at a Bakersfield medical facility 200 miles away. Bryan Hicks, 42, was the little girl’s guardian, Modesto police said. According to police, officers went to Hicks’s apartment Tuesday morning …
A 75-year-old North Carolina man has been charged with sexually assaulting children as far back as 1975, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Office reports. James Fredrick Hammontree was initially arrested last December in Morehead City for sexual battery, prompting a woman to come forward and say that Hammontree, a member of her family, had sexually abused …
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Earlier this month, police said they arrested an Ohio couple for torturing a 10-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy in what they called the worst case of abuse they have ever seen. Citing police, the Zanesville Times Record reported that Priscilla Meachem, 31, and Elijah Waltz, 38, started abusing the children shortly after they started …
A Pennsylvania woman and her boyfriend have been accused of torturing the woman’s 9-year-old daughter. As WPVI reports, medics were called to a home in Chester County this week where they found the girl critically injured. The unidentified 9-year-old girl had earlier been pulled unconscious from a bathtub, wearing clothes. The report does not specify …
South Carolina sheriff’s deputies have arrested an Upstate pastor for sexual crimes against children spanning more than a decade. Moises Norberto-Guerrero, 43, has been charged with criminal sexual conduct with a minor and assault and battery, stemming from an investigation begun in October, the Greenville County Sheriff’s Office said in a release on Wednesday. Investigators …
A Florida woman handed her infant child to a stranger — but it turns out, the woman was not randomly chosen. As WESH reports, a Deltona resident called police last week to report that a woman had showed up on her doorstep, rang the doorbell, and handed her a 3-month-old baby boy. “Some girl just …
A Florida man charged with animal abuse and child cruelty earlier this year has regained temporary custody of the teen daughter. ABC 3 reports that Damon Becnel has been fighting for custody over the past several months after his daughter was taken away from him in January over child and animal abuse claims. As CrimeOnline …
A Missouri man was arrested last week for allegedly beating his girlfriend’s disabled 5-year-old son to death. KMOV reported that on Tuesday, Jamarion Delancy’s mother was at the hospital giving birth to her third child as her boyfriend, Yoshuah Dallas, 24, watched Delancy and his 7-year-old sister at their St. Louis County apartment The following morning, …
