The California Highway Patrol announced in a press release Monday that authorities are continuing the search for Devonte Hart, 15; Sierra Hart, 12; and Hannah Hart 16; three adopted siblings missing after a car driven by one of their mothers went over a cliff into the Pacific Ocean, killing both parents and three adopted children. …
A Wisconsin man who was 68 when he forced a 5-year-old to urinate in his mouth on three occasions learned his fate last week. On Thursday, St. Croix County Circuit Court Judge Scott Needham sentenced Richard Zeier, now 70, to eight-and-a-half years in prison and to another eight years of extended supervision for the 2014 incidents involving …
The 15-year-old boy missing after his family’s SUV plunged from a cliff into the Pacific Ocean went to a neighbor’s house begging for help three times the day before the family is believed to have fled their home. Devonte Hart, the subject of a famous photograph taken at a 2014 Portland protest, and his sisters …
The family of the 12-year-old boy who was the subject of an instantly-iconic photo in 2014 was overwhelmed by the attention they received after the image went viral, and relocated to try and start anew. But five members of the large family are now dead and three are missing following a mysterious SUV plunge off …
A young mother on drugs who birthed her child in a bathroom then failed to seek medical attention for the baby was charged Tuesday with felony injury to a child in Kingwood, TX. According to the Midland Reporter-Telegram, Stephanie Annette Brock, 21, had taken opiates and marijuana before giving birth to a baby boy on …
Texas authorities have discovered thousands of videos of sex abuse against kids, including some that depict torture, in what a sheriff says is the “worst case” of child pornography he has ever seen, KPRC-TV reports. Police in Coldspring, Texas, found more than 3,000 disturbing videos in a trailer home involving children between 5 and 12 …
A Fort Wayne, Indiana, woman has admitted to trying to kill her 11-week-old niece last year by lacing her breast milk with pain pills and caffeine. On Monday, Sarai Rodriguez-Miranda, 19, pleaded guilty in Allen County court to attempted murder. The teen had devised the deadly plot to kill her infant niece in January 2017 after …
‘Incest was a normal way of life,’ the father allegedly told the children
An Oregon day care owner who drugged the kids in her care with melatonin so she could go tanning and do CrossFit learned her fate Friday. A Deschutes County judge sentenced January Neatherlin, of Bend, to 21 years and 4 months in prison weeks after she pleaded guilty to 11 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and …
Three Illinois day care workers are facing criminal charges for allegedly giving 2-year-olds melatonin gummies to calm them down before naptime. Kristen Lauletta, 32, Jessica Heyse, 19, and Ashley Helfenbein, 25, teachers at Kiddie Junction in Des Plaines, are accused of supplying gummies to the toddlers without their parents’ consent. While none of the parents reported injuries, …
The man accused of raping and killing a 10-year-old girl reportedly admitted to police that he had sexual contact with her after she had died. KOAT has obtained search warrants connected to the investigation of Victoria Marten’s August 2016 homicide. Three suspects — the girl’s mother Michelle Martens, her boyfriend Fabian Gonzalez, and Gonzalez’s cousin …
A 12-year-old boy was hospitalized for burns after his own father allegedly advised him to set himself on fire. According to the Associated Press, Michael Joseph Jensen, 36, of Claremore, Oklahoma, has been charged with child neglect after he allegedly gave his suicidal son advice on how to kill himself. The father is accused of …
