DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A couple accused of gifting their daughters to a cult-like figure who considered them wives has pleaded to child endangerment charges. Savilla and Daniel Stoltzfus got financial help from Lee Kaplan when they fell on hard times after breaking from their Amish faith, according to authorities and interviews with relatives and …
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 …
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 …
“She learned to keep her mouth shut and ‘not to ask any questions’ in certain situations”
ANDREW DeMILLO Associated Press LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — After nearly a dozen years without an execution, Arkansas is racing to put eight men to death next month over a 10-day period — an unprecedented timetable the state says is necessary because one of the three ingredients in the lethal injection will soon expire. If …
Tot mom claims she is not trying to profit from her daughter Caylee’s death, while teasing a possible reality show
At least four of their 18 shots ripped into the child’s body while he was strapped into the front seat.
Police Chief: “The heinous crimes that he committed in our community are the very reason that we have the death penalty as an option under the law”
DON THOMPSON Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A California woman who was drugged along with her boyfriend and then dragged from their home described the “hell that we have survived” in emotional testimony before her abductor was sentenced to 40 years in prison in a crime so elaborate and bizarre that police initially dismissed …
“I regret killing the baby but not the other”
DAVID PORTER Associated Press NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A man accused of killing three women was tracked via his cellphone to locations near where at least two of the women’s bodies were discovered, according to a court document filed by prosecutors. The assertions were contained in an affidavit filed in January by an Essex County …
Prosecutors dropped three felony charges of child endangerment and conspiracy
