Three Indiana children were hospitalized this week after their babysitter allegedly helped them snort drugs, WFIE-TV reports. At 5:21 p.m. Wednesday, authorities in Evansville were dispatched to a residence in the 100 block of Althaus Avenue for a report of three children – ages 8, 9, and 15 – in need of medical attention. The …
A 3-year-old Texas boy is now out of a coma after enduring a brutal beating in January, reportedly at the hand of his mother’s boyfriend. According to ABC 13, Jasmine Salas was charged last month with a felony injury to a child charge after she allegedly allowed her boyfriend to beat her son, Nehemiah, in …
The parents of a missing Arizona boy have been arrested on child abuse charges, accused of assaulting and threatening their other children, FOX 10 Phoenix reports. On Friday, police released updated photographs of the missing child, 12-year-old Kelly “KJ” Conklin, who allegedly ran away from home with his 14-year-old brother on Tuesday. Court documents obtained …
A Texas exterminator is being hailed a hero after finding an abused child inside a hotel room he arrived to last month for servicing. According to probable cause affidavits filed in Wichita County Court and obtained by The Daily Beast, when the exterminator arrived at Wichita Falls Delux Inn and saw what he thought was …
Georgia police are investigating allegations that two daycare teachers abused a young boy. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, the incident happened at the Clarkston First Baptist Daycare in Clarkston, in the 4000 block of Church Street. Police began investigating after the mother of the child saw security footage at the daycare and filed a report. …
The son of award-winning American writers Paul Auster and Lydia Davis has been charged with manslaughter in the drug-overdose death of his 10-month old daughter last November. Paramedics responded to a 911 call from Daniel Auster’s home in Brooklyn on November 1 and found baby Ruby unconscious and unresponsive. The rushed her to Methodist Hospital, …
A Colorado police officer has been arrested on multiple serious charges, but the community remains in the dark about the precise nature of the allegations, The Gazette reports. On Friday, Colorado Springs patrol officer Shane Reed was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping, child abuse, menacing and harassment, according to the newspaper. The Colorado Springs Police …
A North Carolina couple accused of trying to kill their 11-year-old adopted son is facing more charges, according to police. Reed and Georgianna Karriker, of Salisbury, were arrested for child abuse after bringing their adopted child to a hospital on January 21. On Wednesday, police arrested the pair again after carrying out a search warrant …
A Chicago mother and two of her children are facing charges after her young son was found dead in Indiana. Jannie Perry (pictured), 38, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of her 5-year-old son, Damari Perry. Two of the boy’s siblings also facing charges for their involvement, including a 16-year-old …
A New Mexico mother is accused of abusing her young son so severely that one doctor described it as “torture,” the Farmington Daily Times reports. The woman, 23-year-old Marissa Gutierrez, allegedly locked the 4-year-old boy in closets, starved him, and caused serious injuries such as spinal fractures, a brain bleed and a broken arm, according …
Security footage shown to jurors on Tuesday, in connection to the death of a boy allegedly abused to death by his father and stepmother, shows a young boy in distress as he cried out for help. Thomas Hughes and his girlfriend, Emma Tustin, are currently on trial at the Coventry Crown Court in England, for …
The sister of a 6-year-old missing but presumed dead Hawaii girl says that she last saw her sibling inside a cage, unable to breathe. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Isabella Kalua was reported missing on September 12 by her family, according to Interim Police Chief Rade Vanic. Her adoptive parents claimed they put her in bed …
