A Davenport, Iowa, woman who left her newborn baby in a hospital trash can last year was sentenced to probation on Friday. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that Judge Marsha Bergan suspended a prison sentence and handed five years’ probation to Ashley Hautzenrader, 24. Hautzenrader gave birth to a baby boy in a University of Iowa Hospital …
Police arrested a Canadian babysitter and charged her with abandoning a 1-year-old in a burning apartment building early Thursday morning. The babysitter, 49-year-old Josée Milot, faces charges of arson by negligence, failure to provide the necessaries of life and child abandonment in connection with the incident, CBC News reports. Milot has a criminal record, including …
Police this week arrested an Arizona couple for allegedly pressuring their 15-year-old babysitter to have sex with them, the Arizona Republic reports. Jefferey Swartz, 27, and his wife, Samantha Ohlman, 23, met the girl through her brother, authorities have indicated. The husband and wife had asked the victim to babysit their kids after she and …
A 20-year-old New Jersey man allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter to death because she wouldn’t eat dinner, NJ.com reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Najuquan Ross with murder in connection with the July death of the girl, Natalise “Kayla” Gunter. The girl’s mother, Lucy Gunter, told investigators that she had returned from work when she …
A Utah mother who starved her son and locked him in a feces-filled bathroom will serve decades behind bars, the Spectrum reports. A judge ruled Monday that Brandy Jaynes must serve up to 45 years in prison for keeping her son isolated in a bathroom for 7 to 8 years, causing him to become so …
Police have arrested a Mobile, Alabama, woman after she allegedly left her 5-year-old son behind in a store when she was accused of shoplifting. WKRG has reported that Debrina Ayranita Scott, 24, was taken into police custody Wednesday and charged with theft of property and endangering the welfare of a child. After being accused of shoplifting, Scott allegedly …
Police arrested a New Jersey mother after her little girl died while being left in a car alone. NJ.com reports that Deanna J. Joseph, 39, called 911 at around 9:45 p.m. on Sunday, from her home off of Timberland Road. She said she found her little girl inside a car, unresponsive. According to Salem County Prosecutor John T. …
A toddler girl found dead in a car at the Procter & Gamble (P&G) employee parking lot on Wednesday in Ohio, was left locked inside the vehicle by her own mother, police say. New York Post reports that Doyle Burke, the chief investigator for the Warren County Coroner’s Office in Ohio, stated that the mother of child, …
Police have arrested a man and a woman and charged them with a litany of felonies after their 2-year-old son suffocated to death after they allegedly tied and weighted down a mattress over his crib so he wouldn’t be able to climb out, WGAL-TV reports. The parents, Justin Dwyer and Courtney Stash, are facing a …
One worker had previously been disciplined for leaving kids unattended
Police alleged that an Indiana teenager was speeding and on opiates when she caused a wreck that killed two sisters. People reported that Alia Sierra, 17, is being charged as an adult on 10 felony counts, including reckless homicide, causing death while operating a motor vehicle with a controlled substance in the blood, and criminal …
A Kissimmee, Florida, mom was caught reportedly drinking at a bar on Sunday while her two children waited in her car with no air conditioning. Click Orlando reports that on Sunday night at around 10:14 p.m., Larissa Rivera, 28, was inside the Butikin Orlando bar off of International Drive, drinking alcohol while her two children, …
