A former IT specialist at a Houston middle school has gone missing amid allegations he impregnated a 13-year-old student at the school. According to ABC 13, Mauricio Mendoza has skipped town after posting bail and police have issued a warrant for his arrest. The 37-year-old husband and father is facing allegations of aggravated assault after …
A man testified Wednesday that his adoptive father threatened to murder him if he didn’t accept his sexual advances. Taking in more than 140 boys in a 20-year span, Cesar Gonzales-Mugaburu, 60, is accused of molesting eight kids he had in his care. According to the New York Daily News, the 29-year-old witness, who was about …
An April 5 affidavit indicated that a woman in Austin, Texas, left her two children in a car last year while she shoplifted. The children survived thanks to a Good Samaritan who spotted them and called 911, but the temperature inside the car had reached 100°F. KVUE reports that Raquel Perez, 26, is accused of leaving her children, …
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 …
