A Pennsylvania woman was arrested on Tuesday in connection with Monday’s suspected overdose of her 9-month-old child. Lehigh Valley Live reported that Easton EMS crews provided Narcan to a baby who was found not breathing due to an apparent opioid overdose. The baby was given a second dose of Narcan at the hospital, which was …
A Connecticut man was arrested last week for leaving his newborn son on top of a stranger’s car in March. WSFB reported that troopers responded to a location in Mansfield after a baby was discovered wrapped in a towel and on top of a woman’s car hood. A subsequent investigation linked Jorge Grados, 41, to the …
Investigators in Halifax County, Virginia, found an infant dead in a yard early Tuesday evening. The Halifax County Sheriff’s Office said it had identified the teen mother of the dead child — and the circumstances of the death, WDBJ reported. Detectives said they were waiting for a reported from the state Medical Examiner’s Office before …
An Indiana woman who was arrested in February for abandoning her 5-year-old son in Ohio was sentenced on Tuesday to six months of mental health and substance abuse treatment. Heather Adkins, 33, was also ordered to complete three years of probation. She is still barred from contacting her son, who is nonverbal and autistic, according …
A mother and father were arrested this week on 26 charges related to the 2016 death of an adopted child. John Snyder II and Katherine Snyder, both 51, were charged with murder in the death of 8-year-old Adam Snyder, who died from blunt force trauma to the head, according to Hamilton County, Ohio, Assistant Prosecutor …
A Texas father has been charged with abandoning or endangering a child after he left a baby girl in shed belonging to a Polk County family. John and Katharine McClain were awakened at about 3 a.m. Saturday morning by the sound of a neighbor’s truck driving away. When they checked their security camera, they saw …
Ohio deputies investigating an alleged sexual assault on Sunday found a toddler locked in a cage and another holding a meth pipe. The Hocking County Sheriff’s Office arrested the children’s parents, 38-year-old Franklin “TJ” Varney and 25-year-old Megan Smith, and the toddlers’ grandmother, 61-year-old Ella Webb, and charged with child endangering, WFMJ reported. All three …
A Missouri couple has been charged with child endangerment resulting in the death of 21-month-old boy who found a loaded gun and shot himself in the head. Police said Alea Little, 24, and her boyfriend, 30-year-old Donnell Straughter, were in bed with the toddler at Little’s home at about 1 p.m. on August 31. The …
The mother told detectives she fled the house to a friend’s, leaving the little girl behind, because her husband had been acting oddly all day.
Georgia police found a toddler in an abandon car on an interstate highway during Friday’s afternoon rush hour. Dekalb County police said they pulled up on the car on Interstate 20 east of Atlanta at about 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The car was empty but for a 2-year-old in the back seat, WSB reported. Police …
A Texas mother was arrested last week, four months after her 2-year-old daughter was killed by what she claimed was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. On February 18, Juelz Gonzalez was fatally shot in the head at her San Antonio home. Her mother, Jessica Cantu, 35, was arrested on Friday, after cops determined the toddler was …
A Texas mom has been arrested after she crashed her car and wandered into traffic lanes on Interstate 20, apparently “under the influence of alcohol and possibly narcotics.” Harrison County deputies said they found one of Fantasia Martinez’s infant children in her abandoned car and a second — the first infant’s twin — alone at …
