An Alabama mother is accused of injecting herself with a large amount of heroin while she was giving birth, which authorities say resulted in the death of the baby, WALA-TV reports. Prosecutors have charged 34-year-old Amanda Malpas with chemical endangerment of a child resulting in death in connection with the incident. On March 5, Malpas …
A Texas mother has been charged with child endangerment after her four children were found abandoned in Harris County this week. Three of the children, the oldest one 4-years-old, were found in the street outside a house at about 10 p.m. Thursday night by teenagers, KPRC reported. The teens went inside the house and found …
Autopsy results released four months after a 15-month-old Florida girl’s death reveal she died from fentanyl poising, and investigators are now trying to figure out how the deadly drug got into the baby’s home. Ivy White’s father, 32-year-old Kaleb White, left for work at 10 p.m. on October 4, 2021, leaving hte baby girl in …
A woman was arrested in Kentucky on Saturday, days after she allegedly abandoned her 5-year-old son in Ohio. According to The Cincinnati Inquirer, Georgetown police arrested Heather Adkins, 32, after someone reported her for knocking on windows at a Kentucky gas station. Though Adkins initially gave police a fake name, officers eventually ran her information …
A Florida woman reportedly found her 2-year-old daughter alone in a closed day care on Wednesday. Plantation police said they were called to Plantation KinderCare roughly eight minutes after an assistant director and teacher closed the center. Responding police and fire crews were able to get Stephanie Martinez’s child out of the locked day care …
CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace says there is a reason that a New York child missing since 2019 was taken from her non-custodial biological parents, and that it’s a miracle the child was found alive and healthy. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 6-year-old Paislee Shultis was reported missing from Cayuga Heights in July 2019. She was four at …
Klaas, whose 12-year-old daughter Polly was abducted and murdered in 1993, tells CrimeOnline that finding Paislee alive after more than two years missing “has to give great hope to the families of all the children that remain missing.”
A Georgia woman could face time in prison after allowing her teen daughter to watch her younger siblings during the pandemic lockdown in 2020. Melissa Henderson, of Blairsville, has been charged with criminal reckless conduct after she left her four youngest children with her oldest child, 14-year-old Linley, in May 2020 after the COVID pandemic …
Texas police have arrested a 22-year-old man they say left a toddler inside his car while he went into a casino overnight. Angel Mendez has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child with intent to return, according to KVIA. Police did not say how long they believe the 14-month-old child was left alone in …
A duffel bag containing a deceased newborn was reportedly found near an Illinois fire station on Saturday. The Chicago Tribune reported that the dead baby boy was found outside North Fire station. Chicago Fire Department spokesperson Larry Langford explained that the station is typically used for air maintenance and air supply. “This is not a …
San Antonio police on Tuesday arrested a woman on two counts of child endangerment two days after finding a pair of toddlers alone and restrained in a locked bedroom. Investigators said they were called to the home on Sunday afternoon by a woman who asked them for help checking on her grandchildren, KSAT reported. Firefighters …
A Texas teacher has been charged with endangering a child after she allegedly locked her 13-year-old son in the trunk of her car to drive him to a COVID testing site after he apparently tested positive for the virus at home. Court documents say that Sarah Beam, 41, told an employee at the test site …
