A adult female in Tokyo was found frozen to death after her parents held her captive in a tiny room for 15 years — and she weighed only 42 pounds when she died at age 32, according to police. According to Reuters, Airi Kakimoto’s parents reported her death to Western Japan’s Osaka Prefectural Police Departmen …
The suspect also killed the family dog, reportedly to stop it from barking
‘Don’t worry about her; we’re in Reno now and she just finished her first job’
“I’m gonna touch those things till nobody else can touch ’em,” the pastor allegedly said about a 12-year-old girl’s breasts.
“Wesley hurt me bad mama,’ is all he kept saying,” the boy’s mother wrote on Facebook
By MICHAEL BALSAMO, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) — Olympic gold medalist McKayla Maroney was forced to sign a confidential settlement with the group that trains U.S. Olympic gymnasts to keep allegations that she was sexually abused by team doctor Larry Nassar a secret, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. Maroney, who won a team gold …
A New York mom has to spend Christmas without her daughter after she says cyber-bullying led her to child to take her own life. KRON4 reports that Aliyah had just turned 20 when her mother, Janette Rodriguez, found her dead in the basement of their Rochester home. Aliyah hanged herself after reported relentless bullying by several girls …
A second teen boy has pleaded guilty to plotting to murder a 14-year-old girl because he and the triggerman didn’t like her Snapchat posts. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that Jayzon Decker, 17, pleaded guilty to to first-degree felony attempted aggravated murder and second-degree felony obstruction of justice. Colter Danny Peterson, also 17, had previously admitted to …
The parents of a 13-year-old California girl who committed suicide have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the Yucaipa-Calimesa Joint Unified School District, accusing officials not doing enough to squash the relentless bullying their child experienced. Redlands Daily Facts reported that at Monday’s news conference Rosalie Avila’s father, Freddie Avila-Olague, accused the district of not doing “justice” …
A New Hampshire boy was killed Saturday afternoon when he was struck by a car as he sledded behind his Winchester home. The New Hampshire Union Leader reported that Keyton Marrotte, 10, was hit by a Subaru Outback after the sled he was in careened down a hill and went into the road. Police said Marrotte …
The former Tennessee teacher who led authorities on a manhunt after he allegedly kidnapped 15-year-old Elizabeth Thomas is now claiming that authorities coerced a confession from him. WHNT News 19 reports that Cummins, who was arrested in April in California after five weeks on the run with Thomas, is asking to have statements he made …
A Texas first grader’s humbling letter to Santa Claus has prompted an outpouring of donations after her teacher posted the note to social media. ABC News reported that Ruth Espiricueta, a first-grade teacher at Monte Cristo Elementary School in Edinburg, instructed her students to pen a letter to Santa about something they want and need. Espiricueta said she …
