Children’s right activist Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and held for nine months as a teenager, is a survivor in the truest sense of the world. After the 13 siblings who were freed on Monday from alleged torture and imprisonment in their parents’ home, Smart sent a message of support. “I would want them to know …
A California man and woman are behind bars after a teen girl reportedly broke away from her home on Monday, called authorities, and told them her 12 siblings were locked inside, shackled and starving. NBC4 reports that officers with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrived to a house in Perris, California, after a 17-year-old girl told them …
The father of two children who disappeared over three years ago while in the care of their mentally ill mother still has no idea what happened to four-year-old Sarah and two-year old Jacob that day, and he says he can’t imagine how this story has a happy ending. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Jacob and Sarah Hoggle …
A young boy in China told authorities he ran away after his parents beat him before tossing him outside in freezing weather. Yet, despite, large red whip marks on the boy’s back, he was returned back to his alleged abusive parents. Mail Online reports that neighbors who found a 10-year-old boy him sleeping inside a …
A Memphis, Tennessee, couple is behind bars for allegedly abusing the woman’s 3-month-old daughter to the point that she remains hospitalized. Billy Sanders told WHBQ that his daughter Albreelynn is clinging to life after her mother’s boyfriend threw her against a wall. “She didn’t do anything to stop it, and basically told the roommate to …
‘Seeing your complete lack of conscience, I don’t think you’ll do well in prison.’
A South Carolina woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend’s toddler daughter, after the three-year-old was found dead of blunt force trauma. The Herald Online reports that Kayla Cook, 25, was arrested Dec. 29 and charged with homicide by child abuse. Lillian Schroeder, 3, was pronounced dead earlier in December after police responded to a call about …
A Missouri man is behind bars after he told police about a drug-fueled sexual assault of a young child. Suspect Brett Pendleton, 48, of Union, reportedly admitted to police that he engaged in sexual activity with an 8-year-old girl, then forced her to eat methamphetamine and smoke marijuana. Fox News2, St. Louis reports that the …
A 4-year-old Texas boy, rescued from a Houston “meth house,” reportedly gave police a harrowing account of what happened to him while living there. Dallas Morning News reports that the boy was found living in the filthy home on Dec. 20, after deputies carried out a search warrant for a home located near Katy, in …
A Minnesota man who said he smacked his girlfriend’s toddler son in the face with a flip-flop “no more than five times” was sentenced to 40 years behind bars for the boy’s beating death. The Star Tribune reported Thursday that Quran J. Mitchell, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder charges in connection with Joshua Isaiah Lockhart Jr.’s …
Two Georgia women are behind bars after one allegedly abused children at a Christian preschool, while the other, the director of the school, reportedly did nothing when alerted to the abuse. Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Shannon McCune, 27, a teacher at Foundations Christian Preschool in Augusta, was arrested on Tuesday in connection to child abuse charges …
“I’m gonna touch those things till nobody else can touch ’em,” the pastor allegedly said about a 12-year-old girl’s breasts.
