An Indiana couple was arrested last week, months after their 4-month-old daughter died in March. According to WTTK, Indianapolis police police found Iyari Washington unresponsive, emaciated, and with a swollen stomach. Her mother and father Tiera Crute, 25, and Daron Washington, 30, gave conflicting accounts of who found their daughter struggling to breathe on the …
A West Virginia couple has been charged with child neglect after investigators found two teenagers locked inside a shed in the backyard of their property and a third, younger child locked inside the main home in a loft 15 feet off the ground. Donald Ray Lantz, 63, and Jeanne Kay Whitefeather, 61, were not present …
A 6-month-old Indiana boy was found with more than 50 rat bites, and now the baby’s parents and aunt — said by neighbors to be “good people — are in jail on multiple child neglect charges. Police were called to the home of David and Angel Schonabaum in Evansville on September 13, when David Schonabaum …
An Ohio mother and great-grandmother were indicted earlier this month on charges that they nearly starved three young children to death. Hannah Johnson, mother of the 7-, 6-, and 4-year-old children, was charged with six counts of endangering children and two counts of kidnapping, according to WXIX. Dianna Johnson, the children’s great-grandmother, was charged with …
A Florida woman was arrested this week after she left a young child alone in her running vehicle while she took a swim where multiple people were fishing, warning her about their hooks and the possibility of sharks in the water. Witnesses said Allison Sarah Daugherty, 41, shouted back that she didn’t care and “wanted …
The mother of a 6-year-old Virginia boy who reportedly shot his teacher in January pleaded guilty to felony neglect on Tuesday. The Richneck Elementary student reportedly shot Abigail Zwerner, 25, with his mother’s gun on January 6 as Zwerner taught 20 other students. The boy’s mother, Deja Taylor, claimed the handgun had a trigger lock …
A 32-year-old Indiana woman has been arrested after her 2-month-old daughter was found underweight and malnourished and living in horrible conditions. The Vanderburgh County Department of Child Services received a call about an infant being neglected at the home of Cassandria Roy, a woman who had a history with the department, WEHT reported. Roy refused …
A couple in West Bengal, India, sold their 8-month-old baby to buy an iPhone and travel for Instagram content, police say. According to The Indian Express, the Barrackpore Police Commissionerate was alerted to the alleged incident after some of the defendants’ residents saw the new phone and noticed that the infant hadn’t been seen in …
A West Virginia couple was jailed earlier this month, after their 8-year-old daughter allegedly jumped out of a window to beg strangers for food. WOWK reported that Ellio and Ryan Hardman, 33, were arrested after their barefoot child jumped out of a second-story window at their Calhoun County home and went to a Family Dollar. …
A Wisconsin woman whose 7-year-old son was shot last month appeared in court on Wednesday. Amanda Krebs’ recent preliminary hearing was adjourned and rescheduled because she did not have a lawyer. Outside of court, WITI questioned her about what led up to the June 25 shooting in her Milwaukee home that left her son with …
A 51-year-old Tennessee woman faces six counts of child neglect after a 3-month-old boy in her care was found dead and six other children were left unattended in her apartment. Anne C. Jordan was arrested Thursday afternoon in Hickman County and returned to Nashville, according to the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department. The 3-month-old’s mother and …
A Texas mother has been charged with child abandonment and endangerment after her 8-year-old son, who was reportedly skinny, weak, and malnourished, broke into a residence and was caught stealing food from a refrigerator. Valley Central reports that police arrested Crystal Viera on June 20 in San Benito, according to a news release by the …
