A Tennessee teacher is facing criminal charges following allegations that she dragged a preschool student into a classroom by her ankles. WTVF reported that a school resource officer witnessed Friday’s alleged assault involving a student and Pre-K teacher Carla Haynes. The officer reportedly spotted the incident unfold on surveillance cameras and reported it to the …
A Florida mother is facing criminal charges for allegedly battering her 9-year-old son during an argument over homework. Martha Ciguenas, 44, was arrested Monday and charged with aggravated child abuse for an April 4 incident involving her son. Ciguenas is accused of striking the boy in the head with a glass candle holder and metal …
Police records were released Tuesday by the Illinois Department of Family and Children Services, preceding the announcement that 5-year-old boy, Andrew “A.J.” Freund had been found deceased. The documents provide a more in-depth look at the boy’s living conditions prior to his death, as well as accusations of abuse and neglect. A.J. disappeared from his …
A Texas couple was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison for forcing a Guinean girl to work for them for 16 years. Mohamed Toure, 58, and Denise Cros-Toure, 58, who are also citizens of Guinea, face deportation after serving their federal prison sentences for forced labor. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that the …
Authorities in Kansas confirmed one of their own has been arrested on suspicion of raping a young victim. According to the New York Post, 52-year-old Michael Edward Mastel had been a deputy with the Wyandotte County Sheriff’s Office for more than a decade at the time of his arrest. In a statement on the matter …
A former Georgia daycare employee is facing a felony charge after police allege she beat a 4-year-old boy with a belt. Gwinnett Daily Post reports that 51-year-old Nadine Jones is accused of hitting the little boy while she worked at the Childcare Network in Duluth. She turned herself in on April 8 after authorities charged her …
A man is behind bars after he allegedly threw her young boy from a third floor balcony at the Mall of America in Minneapolis, and police are trying to figure out why it happened. CBS Minnesota reports that a witness said they overheard the woman screaming that someone threw her child over the edge of the …
The father of a 4-year-old Ohio girl who was killed last year by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county’s Department of Children and Families, accusing the agency of ignoring evidence of abuse before his daughter’s murder. According to WJW, Mickhal Garrett filed the lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County …
Authorities in Illinois say officers responded to the residence of one of their own recently in response to a report of a battered child. According to WMAQ, 55-year-old Wayman Vela — a Round Lake Park police officer — was arrested by deputies from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office following an incident reported on Friday. The …
A Texas mother is accused of physically and mentally torturing her sons, including denying them food and whipping them with cables, KPRC-TV reports. Prosecutors have charged 53-year-old Annette Bogany with two counts of injury to a child as well as two counts of causing serious mental injury to a child. Houston police rescued the children, who …
Authorities in Florida say a 47-year-old band director at a school in Orange County was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a juvenile boy in an act they say was caught on video. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Christopher Michael Blackmer was arrested in connection with a video reportedly recorded in 2014 showing him …
Authorities said a California man fatally beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter with Down syndrome after she interrupted him while in his care. According to an alert issued by the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department, Adam Hughes, 24, was watching his girlfriend’s children, including Kylee Willis, on the evening of March 26 when he became angry at …
