Police in Mississippi arrested a woman and charged her with felony child neglect after her 2-month-old son was found dead in a Clinton hotel. Clinton police were called to the Econo Lodge on Tuesday where they found the baby, WAPT reported. The child’s mother, 34-year-old Darla Luke, was arrested and ordered held on a $25,000 …
New Jersey prosecutors are looking into the “suspicious” death of a 3-year-old boy who had several broken bones when he was taken to a hospital. Sources told WNBC that the Jersey City boy’s mother told a nurse at the hospital that her son had been struggling to breathe in recent days, and his condition worsened. …
A passing boater found three children on an island in a popular recreational lake along the South Carolina-Georgia state line, and now their mother has been arrested for abandoning them there. Courtney Taylor, and her boyfriend, Eric Elrod, were initially reported missing after the children, ages 12, 13, and 15, were found Monday afternoon on …
A West Virginia mom has been charged with child neglect after her toddler daughter stepped out in front of a Fayette County deputy’s patrol vehicle Thursday evening. The deputy said the little girl, who was under 2-years-old, wasn’t wearing shoes and was walking in the roadway of Boomer Branch Road before she stepped in front …
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 …
The 14-year-old girl was also arrested after school officials received a tip about her “kill list,” which contained the names of eight fellow students at West Gate K-8.
An Arizona couple was arrested last week after they allegedly left their 11-year-old son home alone for at least two weeks. The Cochise County Sheriff’s Office said it received a request for a welfare check at a home in Elfrida on December 12 by a caller who said a family lived at the residence, but …
A Florida woman was arrested last week after her four children were found living in deplorable conditions — which also entailed her young daughter being kept in a closet for nearly a month, police said. Jacksonville police responded to Alexandra Ebey’s home on December 14, after a neighbor reported that she had not seen Ebey’s …
A 37-year-old Michigan father was jailed Friday while officials investigate possible child neglect charges after his 1-year-old son was found unresponsive in a bathtub. The Oakland County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were called to the home in Commerce Township just after 11 a.m. for a possible drowning, MLive reported. The boy’s mother was performing CPR …
A Virginia woman is facing charges after she allegedly left her infant in a crib and went out to a bar on Thanksgiving. According to the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office, Victoria Hidalgo, 37, was arrested last week and charged with child neglect with great bodily harm. Police showed up at Hidalgo’s Port Charlotte home after …
A Florida grand jury recently declined to charge the owner of a state-licensed daycare where a 2-month-old girl reportedly drowned in August. Martasha Robinson told WCTV that she received a hysterical call from a mother of another child at Hugger Family Daycare, saying that something had happened to one of the children. When Robinson arrived …
Three young Indiana children “got hold” of a baggie of fentanyl pills this week and ingested them, leaving one toddler dead and two others hospitalized. Six people have been arrested in relation to the incident, including 3-year-old Kamari Opperman’s mother and grandparents. Emergency crews were called to the Evansville home Wednesday morning, the Courier & …
