A North Carolina man is in custody for the brutal beating death of his girlfriend’s two-year-old daughter. After a four-daylong manhunt, reports WNCN, authorities apprehended Brandon Michael Smith, who is accused of murdering his girlfriend’s toddler daughter in a Florida hotel room on March 22. Smith, 36, is suspected of beating Alayna Williamson multiple times with a …
A woman who delivered a baby boy on the bathroom floor was convicted of manslaughter on Monday. On June 8, 2014, Jodie Renee Tarnawskyj, 38, went into labor in her Queensland, Australia, home and gave birth to a boy named Oliver. Believing Oliver was stillborn, Tarnawskyj testified that she cut his umbilical cord, wrapped him in …
Police do not suspect foul play
The father of a 2-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head this weekend has been arrested on homicide charges. According to Fox News, Eric Javier Morales of Corpus Christie, Texas, is facing charges of criminally negligent homicide in connection to the death of his 2-year-old son, Ryan Morales, who reportedly shot himself in the …
UPDATE: Two people, said to be the parents of the baby, have been located and detained for questioning.
An Albuquerque man has admitted to raping a 15-year-old girl, a friend of his own daughter’s, at an alcohol-fueled party he threw for his daughter and her friends. According to the Albuquerque Journal, Ben Richard Aguilar is accused of sexually assaulting the girl three times at a party where he provided alcohol to the high …
A toddler in Nueces County, Texas, has died after accidentally shooting himself in the face on Sunday. According to KIII News, a 2-year-old boy in Corpus Christi was rushed to the Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital on Sunday after he somehow got a hold of a gun and shot himself in the face. He was treated for his …
The Hagerstown, Maryland, mother whose boyfriend beat her 9-year-old son to death for eating birthday cake without permission was sentenced to 25 years Friday morning. Oriana Garcia, 28, agreed to plead guilty to first-degree child abuse in February. In exchange, several charges—including second-degree murder—were taken off the table, according to WHAG. As Crime Online reported, Jacob Barajas, 25, handcuffed …
A Bladensburg, Maryland, babysitter is accused of burning a 6-month-old’s feet because she wouldn’t stop crying. The baby, Ana Flores Guerrero, supposedly sustained second-degree burns after Ismelda Ramos-Mendoza, 36, watched her for three hours on March 22. Guerrero’s mother noticed redness on the bottom of the 6-month-old’s feet the next morning and asked Ramos-Mendoza if she …
Police have found the mother of a toddler who was left on the side of a road on Thursday in Covington, Georgia. The Newton County Sheriff’s Office told 11 Alive that a little boy was found in his car seat on the side of Hwy 11 at about 5:30 p.m. on Thursday evening. Police have not …
A public school employee in Quincy, Massachusetts, is out of a job following allegations that she punched an unruly 6-year-old boy in the face in the school cafeteria. According to WGEM, the little boy’s father says the school contacted him more than an hour after the alleged incident at Adams Elementary School on Friday. “What …
A mentor with Big Brothers Big Sisters took a developmentally disabled 11-year-old to a church and threatened to stop taking him to baseball games unless he’d get baptized, according to a lawsuit filed by the boy’s parents. The suit filed by April and Gregg DeFibaugh Monday in US District Court in Cleveland accused the Big Brother, …
