A Missouri couple has been charged with child neglect after they allegedly abandoned their young son at the county courthouse. “They were gonna take him anyway,” Jeremy Lamp told investigators, according to a probable cause statement filed in the case. The affidavit says that police were called to the Livingston County Courthouse just after 10 …
The sentencing in the death of 1-year-old Oaklee Snow has been handed down by Indiana courts. As Fox59 reported Friday, Madison Marshall, Oaklee’s mother, was sentenced to 25 years in prison. Marshall accepted a plea deal requiring her to testify against Roan Waters and plead guilty to neglect of a dependent resulting in death. Waters, …
An upstate South Carolina couple has been charged with mistreating animals and neglecting their teenage daughter after the took off for Florida, leaving the girl home alone with a house full of dead animals. Union Police officers were called to the home on May 27, apparently for the animals at the home. The found 17-year-old …
A West Virginia couple was arrested last month after Upshur County deputies found three children living in filthy, unsanitary conditions. Catara White, 25, and Trevor Howell, 26, were charged with one count each of child neglect, despite there being three children involved, WDTV reported. Deputies were called to the home for loose dogs, a report …
Warrants have been issued for a Wisconsin couple who failed to appear in court on Thursday to face charges of child abandonment after their two young children were found living “in a completely wild, unkept state” in a squalor-filled apartment in Waukesha. Police were initially called to the scene on January 9 and found the …
A Wisconsin mother was arrested this week after her 1 year old son drowned in the bathtub while she cooked breakfast. Selena Doxzon, 28, told investigators that she bathed her two sons — a 3-year-old and the 1-year-old — then left them in the tub to play while she went into the kitchen, cooked breakfast, …
A West Virginia woman was arrested this week after young children made several 911 calls crying and screaming. Amanda Lynn Spurlock, 32, was charged with two counts of child neglect with risk of injury, WCHS reported. Court documents say deputies were sent to the home Monday night after several 911 calls came in from children. …
An Indiana couple was arrested on neglect charges after a naked child showed up on a neighbor’s front porch last month covered in bug bites. According to WEHT, the neighbor called 911 and reported he believed the child came from next door and that she had “significantly” foul odor. Vanderburgh County deputies went to the …
On Tuesday, Oklahoma police arrested a woman whose 3-year-old daughter reportedly died of a drug overdose last year. According to KOKI, Khearston Brown’s daughter died after Tulsa police found her unresponsive at their home in May 2024. Not only did items taken from the room reportedly test positive for cocaine and fentanyl, but the medical …
Police on Florida’s northeast coast arrested a man on Sunday after they found his 2-year-old son wandering around in the middle of a street in pajamas and “a heavily soiled diaper.” Deputies responded to multiple 911 calls about the child, including some who reported the toddler in the front yard of a home, the Flagler …
An Indiana woman was arrested this week after she allegedly left her two very young children — one of them 9 days old — home alone while she went out drinking at a bar. Early Wednesday morning, Muncie police officers responded to a single car crash in which a vehicle hit a pole, WXIN reported. …
A Missouri mother was charged this week in the death of a her 1-year-old child who “suffered from severe malnutrition and neglect.” An arrest warrant filed in Cape Giradeau County says that Alyssa N. Wehmeyer, 21, didn’t feed her baby “for approximately 43 hours,” causing the infant serious injury and ultimately death. Wehmeyer was charged …
