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 …
A 21-year-old Washington State man pleaded guilty Friday to the rape and murder of a 6-year-old girl whose body was found in a muddy bog several years ago, the Kitsap Sun reports. Gabriel Gaeta, who was 17 at the time of the crime, faces 40 years to life behind bars. Authorities say Gaeta sexually assaulted …
The father of a teenage girl killed in Wednesday’s mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, expressed his shock and disbelief at his daughter’s funeral Friday, while the girl’s mother was too grief-stricken to attend. Meadow Jade Pollack , 18, was among the 17 people killed at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday after Nikolas Cruz, …
A Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student who was wounded in the leg and back said she forgives the suspected gunman who shot her and killed 17 people. Bullet fragments are still embedded in Daniela Menescal’s back and leg following Wednesday’s shooting. The junior claimed that she believed it was a drill until the suspect …
The mother of a student killed in Wednesday’s shooting massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, appeared on CNN to plead for action in the wake of the 18th school shooting in the U.S. since the new year, though not all of those were mass casualty events like he Parkland massacre. Lori Alhadeff’s …
A South Carolina court heard the confession made by a 14-year-old boy after he shot and killed his father before fatally shooting a 6-year-old at his former elementary school in September 2016. The Anderson Independent Mail reported that the 48-page transcript, which can be read in full below, was made public as an Anderson County court …
The 16-year-old girl may have saved her own life by playing dead
The mother of a 14-year-old boy who allegedly planned a school shooting has been charged with providing firearms to her son. ABC News reports that a Pennsylvania teen, who has not been identified, was arrested on January 25 following reports that he had bragged about his intent to commit a mass shooting at Uniontown High …
Authorities investigating the missing Skelton brothers had hoped the discovery of bone fragments from three children in a Montana shed last Sept. would bring closure to the case of the three missing brothers, who vanished from Michigan in 2010 — but testing has revealed they are not a match. As CrimeOnline previously reported, a Missoula, …
The latest flu fatality this year marks the fourth child flu death of the season in NYC alone, with more than 60 such fatalities nationwide. According to the New York Post, Elisa Murray, 5, was pronounced dead late Saturday night at Brookdale University Hospital in Brooklyn, after being discovered unresponsive by her mother at their …
The suspect’s social media posts show what appeared to be a doting father who adored his daughters
Miraculously, the baby survived
