A Pennsylvania appeals court upheld the maximum 10- to 20-year prison sentence for an attempted rapist who bragged in his diary that he “truly enjoy[s] the hunt.” A court rejected that Frank Yeager’s attorney was not effective at challenging his confession to police, according to WCAU. This comes after a judge in a Superior Court in Lehigh …
MS-13 gang members filmed themselves fatally stabbing a teen girl with knives and wooden stakes in a Virginia park, an FBI agent testified on Monday. Agent Fernando Uribe claimed MS-13 leadership in El Salvador ordered the murder of Damaris Reyes Rivas, 15, (pictured) for her supposed role in leading fellow gang member Christian Sosa Rivas (no …
A judge has sentenced a Minneapolis, Minnesota, man to 25 years behind bars, after he was convicted of fatally beating his 4-month-old daughter just because she was making baby noises, according to the Twin Cities Pioneer Press. On August 13 2016, Cory Morris, 22, struck his daughter, Emersyn, more than 20 times and roughly squeezed her chest because she …
The courts sentenced a Virginia woman who beat her 3-year-old goddaughter to death to 30 years behind bars, according to CBS6. Danielle Turner, 25, carried out the unthinkable abuse on infant Latrice Walden in February. Turner originally claimed that Walden had hit her head on the faucet when she slipped in the bathtub. She later admitted to hitting the baby …
A British court has gone against the parents’ wishes and ordered that a terminally ill infant’s life support be cut off, according to The Washington Post. On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights upheld a lower court’s decision to let 10-month-old Charlie Gard die. The boy’s parents argued that new treatments were available in the …
On Day 5, Cosby jury asks for definition of reasonable doubt
A jury convicted a Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, man on child rape charges on Wednesday. And it wasn’t the first time. Luis A. Cruz, 56, was found to have assaulted his girlfriend’s daughter from 2007 to 2008—when the victim was 8 and 9 years old. According to Penn Live, the victim’s mother moved the man in with her …
Amid Bill Cosby’s sex assault trial, celebrity attorney Gloria Allred was reportedly ejected from the courtroom after she couldn’t manage to silence her noisy cellphone. Montgomery County court officers showed Allred the door during Wednesday’s proceedings. The presiding Norristown, Pennsylvania, judge has a zero-tolerance policy involving the use of electronics in the courtroom, according to …
In efforts to ensure she’ll die behind bars, a Texas grand jury indicted convicted baby killer Genene Jones for another infant murder on Thursday. Jones, 66, was serving a 99-year sentence for the 1982 murder of 15-month-old Chelsea McClellan. According to the San Antonio Express-News, the nurse administered a fatal dose of muscle relaxants during a routine immunization. She …
A Portland, Maine, father who shook his 3-month-old so severely that he suffered hemorrhaging and more than two dozen broken bones was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday. Eugene Martineau, 25, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in connection with the October 2015 death of his infant son, Leo Josephs. Josephs, who died from head trauma …
Tad Cummins’ former defense attorney brought up numerous reasons why his client should remain free on bail during a pretrial release hearing in Nashville, but a federal judge decided that the evidence against the suspect outweighed the arguments made in his defense. According to court documents filed on May 13, Cummins’ defense lawyer argued that his …
A 14-year-old Texas boy may have to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life after having sex with his 12-year-old girlfriend, the teen’s attorney alleged. Joseph Gutheinz, the child’s lawyer, told the Houston Chronicle that his client was arrested and charged with aggravated sexual assault of a child. The girlfriend was …
