A Kentucky daycare worker has been arrested after she was seen on surveillance video yanking a handful of hair out of a toddler’s head. Leitchfield Police said the video showed 24-year-old Kesha Cochran monitoring a room of small children onTuesday when she approached a year-old child and pulled the toddler’s hair, according to WBKO. Then, …
A Utah man has been arrested after he reportedly choked a child and threw him across the room after a church volleyball tournament then went into hiding with the help of his family to avoid police. Nathan Jack Speaker, 42, was arrested on Monday after the March 8 assault at a Lehi meetinghouse for the …
A former Virginia nurse charged with injuring a 5-month-baby at the hospital where she worked was slapped Monday with several more charges. Six new charges — two counts of malicious wounding and four counts of child abuse and neglect — relate to two additional babies, WWBT reports. Erin Strotman was charged with malicious wounding, child …
An Illinois couple has been charged with beating an 11-year-old boy because he didn’t clean the bathroom the way they wanted. Loves Park Police said Alexandria Thompson, 30, and Branden Crane, 35, were arrested for a December 29, 2024, incident after a weeks-long investigation, WTVO reported. Police were called about that incident on January 1, …
A Colorado daycare employee who was fired last fall when allegations of abuse surfaced has now been arrested on 51 misdemeanor child abuse charges. The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office said “somebody” reported an instance of abuse on September 5. A substitute teacher’s aide said that 32-year-old Brandon Vigil “seemed irritated and in a bad mood …
California police over the weekend arrested a 22-year-old mother on abuse charges after she allegedly beat her 11-month-old baby. Shasta County sheriff’s deputies said they arrived on the scene Sunday morning in time to see Aleesha Ann Allen putting the baby into a vehicle and “noticed facial injuries that ppeared to be deliberately inflicted and …
A Kansas man was arrested in connection with the shooting death of his 1-year-old daughter. On Friday night, Wichita police and EMS responded to a shooting shortly after 8:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of S. Santa Fe Ave, according to The Wichita Eagle. The father of the infant, a 25-year-old Wichita man, has been …
Indiana parents were charged with neglect this week after police found their “extremely skinny” 10-year-old son with “scars and marks on his wrists” that were “consistent with restraints” and allegeations of “nutritional” neglect and child abuse. Melody Rose Greenwood, 38, and Adam Jon Greenwood, 36, were released on $15,000 and $10,000 bonds while the county …
Oregon police have arrested a teacher and her parents after they were indicted on child abuse charges and found hiding out in a coastal hotel. A Deschutes County grand jury handed up indictments for Sarah Session, 33; Paula Hardenburg, 60; and Gary Hardenburg; 65, on Tuesday, but they were not arrested until Friday when US …
A New Mexico couple was arrested on Tuesday for keeping their 15-year-old daughter in a chicken coop for months. According to KRQE, Patricia Madrid, 36, and Jammy Jackson, 59, allowed the girl to use the bathroom twice daily and fed her only ramen noodles. Other children in the home ate whatever they wanted and were …
A teenage West Virginia dad faces child abuse charges after a grandmother showed police video of him aggressively throwing a 4-month-old baby down and holding his hand over the infant’s mouth. Jeremiah Burkhammer, 19, was charged with child neglect creating risk of injury and strangulation, WDTV reported. The video shows Burkhammer shortly before 2 a.m. …
A Texas mother had been charged with four counts of injury to a child after she beat her children with a dog leash because none of them would admit who left a tissue on the floor. Ebony Gonzalez, in her early 30s (local media gave three different ages), also reportedly turned on the stove and …
