‘Mom’ arrested, child found safe after sister found stabbed and home engulfed in flames
Family Crime
The 11-year-old remained hospitalized Tuesday and police said she was unconscious and that her condition was “very severe.”
Child Abuse
May 15, 2018
Katrina Miles, killed with children in murder-suicide, wrote chilling poem about domestic violence
The woman killed with her four children and her parents in an apparent murder-suicide in Australia last week had written a poem about domestic violence four years ago that suggested she may have been a victim. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Katrina Miles, 35, was shot and killed last Friday on a remote farmstead in Australia …
Child Abuse
May 15, 2018
‘Mom’ flees with 7-year-old daughter after allegedly stabbing 11-year-old, setting house on fire
A child who escaped the home told police that the mother “duct taped their hands, put socks in their mouths” before stabbing 11-year-old girl
Child Abuse
May 14, 2018
Children removed from a squalid home describe ‘sadistic’ torture and ‘intentional abuse’ by parents that left ‘puncture wounds, burns, bruising’
“It literally breaks your heart, and you’re outraged by how a parent or anyone could commit those acts”
Family Crime
May 14, 2018
Father of children killed in suspected murder-suicide claims grandfather planned the deadly shooting
“He gave them to me and now he’s taken them away, if it had to happen, there is no better person than that,” the grieving father said of his estranged father-in-law
Family Crime
May 13, 2018
Bloodshed in Australia: Grandfather suspected of gunning down his wife, daughter, and four autistic grandchildren
Investigators believe a grandfather gunned down his wife, daughter, her four children and then himself in what authorities say is the deadliest mass shooting in Australia in 22 years. The New York Post reports that three guns recovered from the scene belong to 61-year-old Peter Miles, who owned the remote farmstead where the bodies were …
Family Crime
May 12, 2018
Woman stabs her son when he refuses to buy her crack cocaine after drinking binge: Cops
Authorities in Florida say a woman stabbed her own son after he refused to purchase crack cocaine for her earlier this week. According to the New York Post, 58-year-old Debra Denise Warren had been drinking at her Gainesville home when she expressed a desire for narcotics. Police believe she grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed …
Family Crime
May 12, 2018
Mom dies trying to stop her daughter’s suicide attempt
A mother attempting to stop her daughter from killing herself died amid a struggle over a gun, the Caller Times reports. The victim, 45-year-old Esperanza Escamilla of Corpus Christi, Texas, was negotiating with her 26-year-old daughter Serena Escamilla on May 1 when the gun went off and a bullet struck her chest. Serena was reportedly …
Family Crime
May 12, 2018
Twin infants, six months old, die after being left alone in car for hours
Infant twins in Virginia are dead after the babies were allegedly left alone in an SUV for hours. Maj. Frank Carpenter with the Chesterfield County Police Department told WKRC that the babies were found unresponsive Thursday in an SUV on Alfalfa Lane, near Jefferson Davis Highway. The babies are believed to have been in cardiac …
Family Crime
May 11, 2018
Family of 7, including 4 children, killed in Australia’s worst mass shooting in 22 years
By ROD McGUIRK, Associated Press CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A family of seven including four children was found dead with gunshot wounds Friday at a rural property in southwest Australia in what could be the country’s worst mass shooting in 22 years, police and news media said. The children died with their mother and grandparents. The …
Family Crime
May 10, 2018
BREAKING: Skeletal remains, child’s clothing found near site of Hart family fatal SUV plunge
UPDATED: Thursday, 4:13 ET Clothes and human remains have been found near the location where Jennifer Hart is believed to have driven her family over a cliff in late March. The Mendocino County Sheriff’s office announced in a press release on Thursday that a local resident found a pair of jeans and a shoe with …
child endangerment
May 10, 2018
URGENT: Mom and six children missing in South Carolina
The Oconee County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a South Carolina mother who went missing with her 6 children ages one to 11 after failing to hand them over to state custody Wednesday. According to Greenville News, Jennafer Machelle Price, 33, initially wanted to relinquish custody of the children, and reached out to the Department …