A mother whose five children died in an apartment fire earlier this year has been criminally charged in connection with their deaths, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Prosecutors on Wednesday charged 34-year-old Sabrina M. Dunigan of East St. Louis, Illinois, with five counts of endangering the life or health of a child. Authorities allege that Dunigan …
A Missouri mother was criminally charged on Wednesday, nearly three months after her five young children died in an apartment fire. Sabrina Dunigan, 34, was charged with endangering the life or health of a child for the August 10 blaze at her East St. Louis home that killed Loy-el Dunigan, Jabari Johnson, 4, 8-year-old twins, …
A mother of four is in critical condition after she was shot twice in the back at her home earlier this week. Her 1-year-old daughter was also wounded in the shooting, shot once in the stomach, and is in stable condition at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. The 33-year-old woman’s boyfriend told police that he had stepped …
A 14-year-old Pennsylvania boy died Friday afternoon from a fentanyl overdose after buying the drug for a woman he was staying with in a hotel room. Susquehanna Township police arrested Cheyenne J. McGinness, 23, charging her with corruption of a minor, and 48-year-old Adalberto Rodriguez-Roman, who they said sold the drug to the boy just …
While it wasn’t clear just how long the children had been abandoned in the apartment, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said it was an “extended” period of time, “and I emphasize ‘extended.'”
A California woman is facing felony charges after she allegedly threw alcohol-filled sex parties for underage teenagers. According to court documents, 47-year-old Shannon O’Connor is accused of hosting parties for teens at her Bay Area home, which included sexual activities and alcohol such as beer, vodka, and fireballs. The suspect would watch as the high …
A New Hampshire man is behind bars after police say he put an infant in the dryer and turned it on. Police arrested Michael Higgins, 34, of Manchester, on Sunday and charged him with child welfare endangerment, criminal threatening, and reckless conduct, the Manchester Police Department reports. The reported incident happened at an apartment complex …
An 8-week-old baby girl from Jefferson County, Tennessee, is missing and believed to be in the Corbin, Kentucky, area. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation issued an endangered child alert for Zolliee Jean Standafer on behalf of the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Zolliee has a medical condition, TBI said, and may be with 37-year-old Travis Wayne …
An infant survived on his own for days by gnawing on his fingers after his mother died, WAVE-TV reports. Danielle Wade, 29, was found dead in her apartment in Louisville, Kentucky, on August 18. Authorities also found the woman’s 2-month-old boy, Dreseaun, who was reportedly lying atop his mother. The woman had reportedly been dead for …
A 5-year-old West Virginia boy was rushed to the hospital Tuesday afternoon after a neighbor found him unresponsive in a car trunk, police said. According to WSAC 3, the incident happened at a mobile home park off of Bobo Street in Cottageville. The boy was found at around 1:30 p.m. inside a neighbor’s car trunk. …
A man and a woman in Massachusetts have been arrested for kidnapping a four-day-old baby girl Saturday morning in Worcester. The mother reported that a woman she’d met on Facebook and been in frequent communication with — identified as Kassidy Lauziere-Cuevas, 19 — picked her and the baby up Saturday morning for coffee shortly before …
A New York man is facing charges after police say he was driving drunk when he crashed his vehicle with three children inside. The incident happened a little after 7 p.m., off of Townline Road in Long Island. According to police, 33-year-old Ryan McDonald veered off the roadway while driving a 2019 Nissan Pathfinder on …
