A Louisiana mother allegedly running from police for stealing baby items crashed her vehicle this week, killing the woman’s 5-week-old infant and her boyfriend, KNOE-TV reports. The woman, 38-year-old Candace Gill, now faces numerous criminal charges, including two counts of manslaughter. The incident began on Monday evening, when police in Monroe, Louisiana, were called to …
A 57-year-old Georgia woman caused havoc Monday morning when she opened fire at a Gwinnett County school bus carrying four kindergartners. Celeste Michele Saunders was taken into the custody and charged with four counts of first degree cruelty to children, five counts of aggravated assault, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, …
A Florida woman was arrested on Saturday for allegedly leaving her three children unattended as she went to a nightclub. Okaloosa County police got involved after a security guard at the Choctaw Village Apartments found a 3-year-old wrapped in a blanket and sleeping on a sidewalk. Deputies later found Shyla Heidelberg’s two other children sleeping …
A Louisiana woman has been charged with cruelty to children after she flipped an SUV she was driving with her 11 chidren inside. Central Police Chier Roger Corcoran said all 11 children survived the crash — which happened after 10 p.m. on Sunday — although one, who was ejected from the vehicle, was taken to …
A bus driver in Michigan was criminally charged in connection with last week’s death of a 13-year-old boy who was fatally struck by a car after she allegedly failed to use the bus’ safety stoplights or stop sign. Debra White was arraigned Sunday on charges of second-degree child abuse and failure to stop at a …
A Pennsylvania woman was criminally charged last week for allegedly holding her 1-year-old daughter’s head underwater. On March 25, Rainelle Wolfe, 21, was staying at a Robinson hotel with her daughter and a 15-year-old girl when she allegedly slapped her daughter on her stomach for soiling herself. The teen said Wolfe then threw her daughter …
A Missouri day care’s license was suspended last week, two days after officials investigated allegations that staff was giving children unapproved medications at nap time. In an April 1 letter to Busy Bee Learning Academy owner Tonya Newbound, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education stated that it was suspending her day care’s license after …
Oklahoma police have arrested a man they say stole a car with two children in the backseat — and then arrested the children’s mother for child endangerment and public intoxication. Charmagne Gray reported to Tulsa Police that she’d left her car running outside an apartment complex, and a man jumped in and took off with …
The mother who said her 3-year-old son had been shot to death in a road rage incident earlier this week has been arrested on a child endangerment charge. Lacravivonne Washington, 26, told police on Monday that she’d been involved in an incident as she left a donut shop with her three children — ages 2, …
Kristian Hemmitt has been charged with assault, child endangering, and tampering with evidence, and the facility where she worked has had its license suspended.
A Texas woman was charged with child abandonment for allegedly trying to give her 12-day-old daughter to a stranger on Sunday. Yessenia Cardenas, 25, was walking down a street in Corpus Christi while reportedly trying to hand her baby to several people. One of those people was Claudia Canales, who told KOAA that she was …
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 …
