child torture

‘Tortured’ 9-year-old girl pulled unconscious, clothed from bathtub; mom waits 45 minutes to call 911 as daughter says she can’t breathe
Child Abuse

A Pennsylvania woman and her boyfriend have been accused of torturing the woman’s 9-year-old daughter. As WPVI reports, medics were called to a home in Chester County this week where they found the girl critically injured. The unidentified 9-year-old girl had earlier been pulled unconscious from a bathtub, wearing clothes. The report does not specify …

May 10, 2020

Grandmother accused of sadistically torturing, killing 12-year-old grandson faces death penalty, admits to allowing other children in the home to violently punish the boy

Montana prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty for a woman accused of torturing, beating and killing her grandson, the Casper Star Tribune reports. Patricia Batts is facing charges of deliberate homicide, criminal endangerment, aggravated kidnapping and strangulation of a family member in connection with the death of 12-year-old James Hurley, whose body was found …

‘She looked like a Holocaust victim’: Videos reveal 3-year-old’s ‘life of torture’ before she died
Child Abuse
February 10, 2018

‘She looked like a Holocaust victim’: Videos reveal 3-year-old’s ‘life of torture’ before she died

Authorities on Friday revealed footage showing how the parents of a 3-year-old Utah girl abused her before she died, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. In July, the girl, Angelina Costello, was found dead in her family’s home. Prosecutors have charged her parents, 23-year-old Emile and 25-year-old Costello, with first-degree aggravated murder. READ More: Police: Utah parents …

‘House of Horrors’ Update: Police reportedly found shackled siblings lying in their own feces and urine
Child Abuse
January 18, 2018

‘House of Horrors’ Update: Police reportedly found shackled siblings lying in their own feces and urine

Several of the 13 California siblings who reportedly endured abuse and neglect in their parents’ ‘house of horrors’ were found lying in their own feces and urine on Monday, according to a Riverside County deputy. MailOnline reports that Deputy Mike Vasquez of the Riverside Sheriff’s Office stated that the foul-smelling odors emanating from inside the Perris …