A Pennsylvania couple allegedly admitted to waterboarding a 12-year-old girl to punish her, the Beaver County Times reports. Dion Stevens, 34, and Malisa Stevens, 41, were charged earlier this week after police received a tip that the pair was physically abusing the girl. The victim reportedly told authorities that in April, the Stevens’ dragged her …
The mother of a nine-month-old baby is outraged and heartbroken after finding that the child’s nine-year-old nanny has been horrifically abusing her. The Daily Mail reports that Annemarie Theron installed a nanny cam at her home in a remote corner of Namibia, Africa, after seeing some suspicious bruising on her daughter, Laila. They had also noticed …
The son of the disgraced Penn State football coach admitted to pursuing teen sisters, asking them for nude photos and oral sex
A former North Carolina pastor who admitted to sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl has been sentenced to just 30 days in jail as punishment for the crime. Eric Dave Jones, 49, pleaded guilty this week in Haywood County Superior Court to a charge of indecent liberties with a child, the Citizen-Times reports. While the felony charge …
A Fort Walton Beach, Florida, elementary school teacher is facing criminal charges for allegedly abusing special needs students at the school. According to an arrest report obtained by the Northwest Florida Daily News, Kenwood Elementary School teacher Marilynn Stillions, 59, is accused of spraying vinegar in children’s mouths as punishment, using her foot to push or move …
Even after emergency responders arrived to check on the boy, the parents lied and said he was already at the hospital
A former Wisconsin day care worker who broke a toddler boy’s leg by throwing him on the ground has been sentenced to jail. According to the Duluth News Tribune, Ashley Garrity, 27, pleaded no contest in late June to felony reckless child abuse causing harm. This week, St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Michael Waterman sentenced the …
The owner of a now-shuttered private boarding school pressured a teenager into sex, forced girls to undress for “body image therapy” and held other students in solitary confinement, authorities say. Prosecutors on Friday charged Benjamin Trane, the former director of Midwest Academy, with third-degree sexual abuse, sexual exploitation by a counselor and child endangerment, as …
An 11-month-old Queens, New York, boy was declared brain dead over the weekend after being violently shaken and abused, officials revealed Tuesday. The New York Daily News reports that relatives called 911 Thursday afternoon after Jeremiah Callaghan vomited baby formula and fell unconscious. The child apparently passed out after coming home from the park. Callaghan …
The family of a little boy who was horrifically abused by his father and stepmother for years before he was starved to death has sued child protective agencies in two states for failing to properly respond to evidence of abuse. Adrian Jones was 7 when he died while confined to a shower stall in his …
The little boy was murdered because he wet the bed, prosecutors say
A 20-year-old New Jersey man allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter to death because she wouldn’t eat dinner, NJ.com reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Najuquan Ross with murder in connection with the July death of the girl, Natalise “Kayla” Gunter. The girl’s mother, Lucy Gunter, told investigators that she had returned from work when she …
