A 20-year-old Madagascar woman was arrested after police say she abandoned her newborn during an Air Mauritius flight, according to reports. Officials at the Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport said customs staff found the newborn while performing a routine check on the plane, BBC reports. The plane had just landed in Plaine Magnien, Mauritius on …
Police in Alaska say a newborn baby was dropped off with a note last week when the temperature in Fairbanks had dropped to around 1 degree at the time. KTOO reports that the infant was found by local resident, Roxy Lane, near a row of mailboxes on Friday afternoon. Alaska State Troopers said the baby, identified as …
An Iowa father has been arrested for child endangerment after he allegedly passed out drunk, allowing his toddler son to leave the house and go wandering down the road alone. Court records say West Des Moines police said they were called at about 5 p.m. on Friday about “a small child about the ages of …
Jana Duggar is clearing the air about the circumstances surrounding a citation she received for allegedly endangering the welfare of a child, NBC News reports. The bottom line, she says: It was an innocent mistake. Jana, 31, who starred in the reality television program “19 Kids and Counting,” made headlines last week when it was …
An Illinois man is behind bars after allegedly leaving his 10-year-old son behind after crashing his vehicle while driving under the influence. Following an intense search Saturday night, police arrested Christopher Hernandez, 29, and charged him with aggravated driving under the influence, driving under the influence, endangering the life or health of a child,, failure …
No criminal charges have been filed against the Texas woman whose 8-month-old daughter was reportedly killed Sunday when she fell out of her car and was run over by another vehicle. Irving police said none of the four children, including Kassidy Smith, were secured in the car when the back door opened Smith fell out. …
The mother of a New Jersey teen missing for nearly a month stabbed the girl, sprayed bleach in her eyes, and hit her with a frying pan, a criminal complaint filed in the case says. Jamie Moore, 39, reported her 14-year-old daughter JaShyah Moore missing on October 14 after the girl didn’t return from a …
The mother of a New Jersey teen who was found safe on Thursday following a month-long disappearance was arrested on Friday. According to RLS Media, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and East Orange Police Chief Phyllis Bindi announced that Jamie Moore, 39, was charged with two counts of second-degree endangering the welfare …
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 …
