A 10-year-old Tennessee boy allegedly fatally stabbed himself in the chest with a kitchen knife after his mother beat and choked him with an extension cord. The Commerical Appeal reported that police were called to a Frayser home Saturday afternoon and discovered Jaheim McKinzie suffering from chest wounds. The boy was rushed to a hospital where …
The brother of the Las Vegas gunman who killed dozens of people last month was arrested on child pornography charges after he bragged about what his brother had done. TMZ reports that Bruce Paddock told fellow residents at his assisted living facility in North Hollywood, California, that Stephen Paddock was his brother, prompting a staffer …
A former Roy, Utah, day care owner who killed an infant by slamming his head into a changing table was sentenced to prison on Wednesday. Judge Scott Hadley sentenced Tisha Lynn Morley, 36, to five years to life in the Utah State Prison for the February 2014 death of Lincoln Penland. The 8-month-old sustained two broken arms, …
An Idaho mother is accused of brutally beating her children after they ate a tub of ice cream. Fox News reports that Priscilla Zapata allegedly shaved her two daughters’ heads after discovering they had eaten the ice cream, in addition to severely beating all four of her children — two boys and two girls — and …
An Iowa couple was arrested Wednesday after their 4-month-old son’s body was allegedly found covered in maggots in his swing. The Kansas City Star reported that Cheyanne Harris, 20, and Zachary Koehn, 28, were charged with first-degree murder and felony child endangerment months after Sterling Koehn’s death. The father called 911 on August 30 to their …
Another woman has come forward to accuse director Roman Polanski of molesting her when she was a minor. Artist Marianne Barnard revealed to The Sun that Polanski, who fled the U.S. in 1978 after pleading guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse with a 13-year-old girl, allegedly assaulted her during a disturbing “photo shoot” in California in …
A Virginia daycare worker pleaded guilty to felony child neglect charges on Thursday after an infant died in her care last year in her Chesterfield home. ABC3 reports that 3-month-old Peter Hitt died while in the care of Carrie C. Persichini, a 53-year-old unlicensed childcare worker who admitted to putting the baby down on his stomach …
The victim said this all came out of an investigation into $260 a month she receives in food stamps to support the child she carried to term after she was raped at age 12
Prosecutors have dismissed a capital murder charge against a Texas father who had been accused of killing his 2-year-old daughter after the man’s son admitted to causing the girl’s death, the Star-Telegram reports. Anthony Sanders, 33, had been charged with suffocating his daughter, Ellie Sanders, while at the family’s home in December 2015. Police had …
After he was convicted in August of several charges related to the torture and death of his then-girlfriend’s disabled son, Matt Christenson learned his fate Friday at his sentencing hearing. Christenson, a 45-year-old from Auburn, Washington, was charged with brutally beating and abusing Otto Smith in 2014, ultimately causing his death in April of that …
A Virginia mother of five was indicted this week for child abuse after two of her young children were allegedly found in what authorities have described as cages. Prosecutors say all of her children were living in abhorrent conditions. Malista Ness-Hopkins, 39, faces five counts of child abuse stemming from a July visit by Accomack …
A Pennsylvania couple accused of waterboarding their 12-year-old daughter as a form of punishment are scheduled to turn themselves in, months after the alleged incident occurred. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Dion Stevens, 34, and Malisa Stevens, 41, both of Aliquippa, are accused of dragging their daughter into the basement of their home, where they allegedly bound her …
