Homicide Lieutenant Ray Spencer said they have ‘an idea’ of how Daniel Theriot died—and it’s ‘absolutely disturbing’
A Missouri man pleaded guilty on Tuesday to shoving his fingers down his 9-week-old son’s throat, killing him. St. Louis Dispatch reports that Robert James Burnette, 21, admitted that he he shoved his fingers down infant Jaxon Burnette’s throat because the baby wouldn’t stop crying. Burnette claimed he was trying to find the baby’s voice box to …
Police have detained a Las Vegas woman after the body of a child who could be her 3-year-old daughter was found in a duffel bag inside her apartment, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The 29-year-old woman, Aisha Thomas, telephoned authorities on Thursday night reporting that her 3-year-old daughter had disappeared while grocery shopping with her …
A Virginia judge decided Wednesday that a 19-year-old man, who prosecutors say tied up and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl on school property, will not serve any active prison time. According to the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Logan Osborn was sentenced in January by Chesterfield Circuit Judge T.J. Hauler to 10 years in prison with eight years …
‘I’ve seen some pretty nasty things, but nothing this deplorable’
A Michigan couple has been accused of homicide after their 10-month-old daughter died of dehydration and malnutrition, WOOD-TV reports. Police on Friday asked prosecutors to charge the couple – Seth Welch and Tatania Fusari, both 27 – in connection with the Thursday death of the girl, named Mary. Welch had posted on Facebook about his …
Police say a Pennsylvania doctor, arrested in January for molesting a 12-year-old girl in his office, now stands accused of sexually abusing more than 25 other children, infants and toddlers, dating back to the 1980s. Dr. Johnnie Wilson “Jack” Barto, 70, used his role at a pediatric practice in Johnstown to “feed his own sick …
A youth pastor accused of sexually assaulting children over a span of 18 years was arrested in California on Friday, according to authorities. ABC7 reports that acting on a report obtained regarding a local children’s pastor, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department sent officers to investigate 45-year-old Malo “Victor” Monteiro, of Colton, after being alerted to possible lewd …
A couple in Green, Ohio, were arrested in June following a probe that police say reveals disturbing crimes involving the woman’s children, including the sexual assault of a 4-year-old boy caught on video surveillance. An investigation into Samantha Ward, 31, and her live-in boyfriend, Dean Davis, 28, began in April after a third party witnessed …
Twin 6-month-old boys in Indiana are recovering from extensive injuries they allegedly sustained months earlier at the hands of their father. WBND reported that Matthew Willet, 21, not only admitted in April to shaking and squeezing his two sons, Cooper and Jensen, but also confessed to dropping one of the babies on the bed and …
Kimrey situated himself between his family and police officers while wearing a marijuana shirt, pajama bottoms, and a baseball cap twisted backward.
Police have arrested an Arizona mother whose 1-year-old son died after allegedly being left alone for eight hours while she went to work. According to AZ Family, officers were called to a Phoenix home on July 14, following reports of an unresponsive child. There, they were met by mother Donielle Joyce King, 32, who led them …
