A family accused a St. Paul, Minnesota, hospital of discarding a stillborn baby in dirty laundry instead of cremating him as promised. The Washington Post reported that Esmeralda Hernandez delivered her premature, stillborn son, José, in April 2013. She kept him with her overnight and Regions Hospital staff offered to arrange a “respectful and dignified” cremation for …
A Good Samaritan rescued an abducted Minnesota teen then reportedly took the reward check and handed it to the girl. The St. Paul Pioneer Press reported that three men kidnapped Jasmine Block, 15, and held her captive for nearly a month before she escaped on September 5. Earl Melchert, 65, was reportedly driving back to work …
A Minnesota man is facing charges more than a year after authorities found the dead and extensively decomposed bodies of his mother and brother inside his home. In September 2016, police responded to Robert James Kuefler’s White Bear Lake residence in response to a neighbor’s complaint that his lawn had become overgrown. According to court …
A former girl’s soccer coach who confessed to sexually abusing a 13-year-old boy in his own bedroom will not spend a day behind bars. The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Rebecca L. Noonan, 33, admitted to having sex with the underage teen in his bedroom while his mother wasn’t home. The 33-year-old was sentenced this week to supervised probation for …
Former ShopNBC host faces up to five years in prison
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 …
A Minnesota man has been accused of rubbing cayenne pepper and hot sauce into his 2-month-old daughter’s eyes, hurling fireworks at her face and, even, stopping her from breathing until she turned blue. This was all part of nearly two full months of horrific child abuse, according KXAN. Shawn Michael Foltz, 31, has also been accused of …
A Minnesota woman was fined last month after a state trooper discovered she was using a fake baby to drive in the car pool lane. Minnesota State Patrol spokesperson Lt. Tiffany Nielson said a trooper pulled the driver over on I-35 after not spotting the woman’s special transponder on board. It was then that the trooper noticed that the “baby” wasn’t a real baby but …
