Tag: 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 …

Child Abuse

March 9, 2020

Taylor Williams: Prosecutors say little girl found dead in woods was TORTURED by her own Petty Officer 1st Class mother

A Florida mother tortured her little girl prior to her death, then reported her missing after dumping her tiny body in a wooded area in Alabama, according to prosecutors. Brianna Williams, the mother of slain 5-year-old Taylor Williams, was previously facing two counts of child neglect and one count of lying to authorities. She’s now …

Child Abuse

October 15, 2019

Little boy found wandering alone on highway tells police he ran away, gives shocking details of abuse & basement confinement

A Wisconsin man is facing numerous felony charges in connection with an 8-year-old boy found wandering alone on a highway, after allegedly escaping an abusive home. CBS 7 reports that Shawano County deputies responded to a call on October 5 after the boy was spotted on Highway 45 in Shawano. Police said the boy “probably …

‘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 …

Elizabeth Smart has a message for ‘Horror House’ siblings found emaciated and shackled in their parents’ filthy home

Child Abuse

January 17, 2018

Elizabeth Smart has a message for ‘Horror House’ siblings found emaciated and shackled in their parents’ filthy home

Children’s right activist Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and held for nine months as a teenager, is a survivor in the truest sense of the world. After the 13 siblings who were freed on Monday from alleged torture and imprisonment in their parents’ home, Smart sent a message of support. “I would want them to know …

Child Abuse

December 10, 2017

Abused girl locked in rat-infested basement, forced to grasp electric fence, hopes to help victims heal

A new book reveals how a French girl was subjected to years of torture by her father — and how victims of similar abuse can heal, the New York Post reports. Maude Julien is the author of “The Only Girl in the World,” which comes out Tuesday. It chronicles her childhood in which her paranoid father …

‘I couldn’t control myself’: Nanny goes to prison after beating, burning three toddlers as a ‘daily routine’

Child Abuse

August 24, 2017

‘I couldn’t control myself’: Nanny goes to prison after beating, burning three toddlers as a ‘daily routine’

A sobbing Connecticut nanny apologized to the family of three children she abused, but it didn’t stop a judge from sentencing her to 15 years in prison on Tuesday. Newstimes reports that Lidia Quilligana, 32, had worked as a nanny for a family in Danbury for around a year when they became suspicious that their children …

How the state failed little Adrian Jones, who was tortured and starved before his parents fed him to pigs

Child Abuse

May 10, 2017

How the state failed little Adrian Jones, who was tortured and starved before his parents fed him to pigs

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