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 …
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 …
