Child Neglect

Parents force siblings to participate while starving, whipping little boy with belt and cord for DAYS before his death: Prosecutors

 Parents force siblings to participate while starving, whipping little boy with belt and cord for DAYS before his death: Prosecutors
Family Crime

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 10-year-old Southern California boy was starved and tortured for days before his death, sometimes by younger brothers and sisters forced to take part in the beatings, according to prosecutors who have charged his mother and her boyfriend with his murder. KNBC-TV on Tuesday cited court documents that alleged vicious and repeated abuse …

Social services called 40 TIMES to couple’s home: Kids found bitten, malnourished, with flies swarming around, report says
Child Abuse
April 27, 2018

Social services called 40 TIMES to couple’s home: Kids found bitten, malnourished, with flies swarming around, report says

A Wisconsin couple facing felony child abuse charges apparently had a long list of complaints to Child Protective Services (CPS) regarding numerous reports of neglect and abuse. News 8000 reports the Beloit Police Department arrested 40-year-old Heather McCoy and 39-year-old Lakeidric McCoy on one charge of “child neglect resulting in bodily harm” and additional five charges of …

Day care owner shakes baby, gives kids melatonin while she leaves to tan and work out
Child Abuse
March 11, 2018

Day care owner shakes baby, gives kids melatonin while she leaves to tan and work out

An Oregon day care owner who drugged the kids in her care with melatonin so she could go tanning and do CrossFit learned her fate Friday. A Deschutes County judge sentenced January Neatherlin, of Bend, to 21 years and 4 months in prison weeks after she pleaded guilty to 11 counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment and …

House of Horrors! Parents arrested after 13 emaciated siblings, some shackled, rescued from decrepit ‘foul-smelling’ home: Cops
Child Abuse
January 15, 2018

House of Horrors! Parents arrested after 13 emaciated siblings, some shackled, rescued from decrepit ‘foul-smelling’ home: Cops

A California man and woman are behind bars after a teen girl reportedly broke away from her home on Monday, called authorities, and told them her 12 siblings were locked inside, shackled and starving. NBC4 reports that officers with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arrived to a house in Perris, California, after a 17-year-old girl told them …

Police: 6-year-old disabled boy was 13 POUNDS and had clogged feeding tube when discovered in filthy hotel room
Child Abuse
December 14, 2017

Police: 6-year-old disabled boy was 13 POUNDS and had clogged feeding tube when discovered in filthy hotel room

A Tennessee mother is facing criminal charges after her 6-year-old son with developmental disabilities allegedly showed signs of being severely abused and was living in deplorable conditions. According to WHBQ, Andrea Caldwell, 32, was discovered in a hotel room on December 8–eight months after the Department of Children Services began looking for her. There, a social worker reportedly …

Parents took their three ‘filthy, diseased, hungry’ children on shoplifting and HEROIN-buying sprees
Child Abuse
December 2, 2017

Parents took their three ‘filthy, diseased, hungry’ children on shoplifting and HEROIN-buying sprees

A Levittown, Pennsylvania, couple who took three young, severely neglected children with them when they shoplifted and bought heroin was sentenced to three to seven years in prison. The district attorney’s office announced the sentences for William Medl and Kimberly Block on Friday. Investigators accused them of subjecting their kids to a “nomadic existence” in …