A 25-year-old Indiana woman has been charged with neglect five months after she left her 21-month-old foster daughter in a bathtub, where she drowned while the mother was chatting on the phone for 30 minutes. According to court documents, Hailynn Volpatti told investigators on May 21 that she left the little girl alone in the …
An Oklahoma couple arrested on child neglect charges kept their apartment so filthy that law enforcement officers struggled to keep from vomiting when they found two young boys — 3- and 4-years-old — locked naked in an upstairs room that was covered in feces. Dakota Rain Dodd, 24, and Aubrianna Jewelyn Willow Freeman, 22, have …
A Florida couple was arrested Sunday after Okaloosa County deputies spotted a young boy running across multiple lanes of traffic, naked and covered in feces. The deputies knew the boy’s identity and took him to a home in Fort Walton Beach after cleaning him up and wrapping him in a towell, the sheriff’s office said. …
Authorities in Houston are investigation a newborn infant found in a ditch Tuesday afternoon, the second dead newborn found in the city in a week. Harris County Sheriff’s Major John Nanny said the baby found on Tuesday was discovered by law care crews lying on a blanket outside a concrete plant in north Houston, Houston …
An Indiana couple has been charged with abandoning a 13-year-old boy they had adopted but later decided they no longer wanted to care for him. Court documents said the 13-year-old was the oldest child of Richard and Patricia Heitz, WNDU reported. For the past six months, the documents say, the parents claim the boy was …
A Florida man was arrested on child neglect charges after he shoved his 10-year-old daughter out of his car and drove off overnight Tuesday. Osceola County Sheriff Marcos Lopez said that Hector Serrano Jr., 30, was driving with his daughter just after midnight in Kissimmee when he got into an argument with the girl’s grandparents, …
A Georgia grandmother called 911 last week, hoping to have Carroll County deputies talk with her 10-year-old grandson about riding his bike on a busy highway, but the story ends with the arrest of the child’s parents. When the deputy arrived on the scene, he found three minor children home alone and the grandmother next …
An Indiana toddler got in her father’s pill crusher and ate fentanyl late last month, leading to the dad’s arrest on neglect charges. Devin D’rell Rollins, 25, also ignored 19 attempts by the Department of Children’s Services to contact him while the 3-year-old girl was in the hospital, WXIN reported. Court records say that the …
An Indiana man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for his part in his 2-year-old daughter’s drowning death in 2021. Jeremy Sweet was found in his truck, submerged in the freezing east fork of the White River, on Thanksgiving Day that year, as CrimeOnline reported. His toddler daughter, Emma Sweet, was later found …
An Indiana woman was sentenced in Marion County Friday, in connection with the 2019 disappearance and presumed death of her infant daughter, Amiah Robertson. In return for her plea for felony neglect of a dependent, the state dropped three additional felony neglect charges against Amber Robertson. Judge Marie Kern accepted Robertson’s plea and sentenced her …
The grandparents of a West Virginia teen found dead “emaciated to a skeletal state” have joined the girl’s mother in jail. Donna Sue Stone, 76, and Jerry Carter Stone, 75, have been charged with child neglect resulting in death, WOWK reported. As CrimeOnline reported, Julie Miller was arrested in April on the same charge after …
A 24-year-old Florida woman was arrested last week after she abandoned her two young children at home to break into a neighbor’s home. Haley Ann Nicole Blunt was naked when she first knocked on a neighbor’s front door and then the back door before breaking a window near the front door to get in, WKMG …
