A Chicago woman is in custody on Monday after allegedly stabbed her 5-year-old daughter to death. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Serenity Arrington died on Saturday after she was taken to a Chicago hospital with a stab wound or wounds to the throat. Police sources told the Chicago Sun-Tribune that the girl’s mother, 27-year-old Simone Austin, …
A former employee of Mississippi Child Protective Services was charged this week with multiple counts relating to alleged inappropriate conduct with juveniles under her care. A Tishomingo County grand jury indicted Lauren Rose Cavness, 26, after a months-long investigation by the Tishomingo County Sheriff’s Office, the Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services, and the Mississippi …
Mourners gathered together in South Carolina on Saturday to remember the life of Gannon Stauch, a young boy killed in Colorado earlier this year and found months later in Florida. At the gathering, held at the Beach Church in Myrtle Beach, mourners delivered heartfelt messages about the 11-year-old, including his best friend, who said Gannon …
A Florida man has been charged with commercial sex trafficking after he allegedly paid a 16-year-old girl repeatedly to let him sexually abuse her. Gregory Thomas Garcia, 34, faces a sentence of 10 years to life if convicted, the US Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida, said. The newspaper said that a Homeland Security Investigations …
A 3-year-old child died in New York on Thursday after her caretaker drove an hour-and-a-half to a hospital he believed would provide her with better treatment than medical facilities in closer proximity. As the New York Post reports, Anthony Richardson, a friend of the child’s family, was caring for 3-year-old Jaylynn Evans at his Mott …
A Tennessee couple and their adult son have been indicted on child sex abuse charges after Georgia investigators tipped their Tennessee counterparts to the case. Jeffrey Wade Howell, 58; Glenda Sue Howell, 61; and Donnie Wayne Jackson, 47, were jailed last week, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation said on Wednesday. Jeffrey Howell was indicted in …
Florida deputies and the FBI arrested 48-year-old James Palmucci this week, charging him with 84 counts of sex crimes against children. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office said that investigators were acting on a complaint filed by several young girls that Palmucci had been touching and sexually abusing them. Investigators also found child pornography on Palmucci’s …
A Utah man has been jailed on charges of producing child pornography from his home and sexually abusing a 4-year-old boy — and filming it — at a church. Thomas Michael Wallin, 21, faces three charges of felony sexual exploitation of a minor and one count of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree …
The baby’s 11-year-old brother tested positive for cocaine
A 3-month-old baby is struggling to survive after it was discovered unconscious in an apartment on Manhattan’s Lower East Side on Monday. According to the New York Post, authorities suspect the unidentified child was abused, and the infant showed signs of shaken baby syndrome. As of Wednesday morning, the infant was in critical condition at …
The mother of two children who were killed when a tractor-trailer hit them on an Arkansas highway posted chilling videos to Facebook only hours before her children died. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 10-year-old Michael Rogers and his 3-year-old sister Princess Josh-Lyn Logan were fatally struck by a tractor-trailer before dawn on September 15 on Highway 67, which …
Police have reportedly recovered the body of a child on Randall’s Island, near the location where a 5-year-old boy is believed to have fallen into the Harlem River on Saturday. Citing police sources, the New York Post reports that investigators believe they have recovered the body of the missing 5-year-old boy, identified as Brendan Mitchell. …
