A Wisconsin man is facing criminal charges after his 2-year-old son reportedly shot himself in the head with a stolen gun on Saturday. Tommy Smith III, 29, was charged with neglecting a child and causing great bodily harm following a reported shooting that has left his toddler son in critical condition. Smith had driven to …
A high school swimming teacher in Michigan was arraigned Wednesday in connection with February’s drowning death of one of his students. Kareem Sigler, 47, was charged with involuntary manslaughter in the February 24 death of Da’Sean Blanding, 15. Prosecutors said the then-Mumford High School swim teacher was in another room when a student alerted him …
Police in Alabama said a 3-year-old boy drowned in a bathtub this week as his father smoked a cigarette outside. Police responded to a home in Daphne at 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, where they discovered the unresponsive toddler and reportedly learned that his father had left him unattended in the bathtub. The Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office claimed the …
A Richfield, Utah, day care employee was sentenced late last month for nearly killing a 22-month-old boy in her care by placing a heavy picture frame on top of his playpen. The Richfield Reaper reported that Casey Bertelson, 28, was sentenced to 80 days in jail and 30 days home confinement for a May 15 incident that …
“If Landyn was here, he would be happy right about now,” the boy’s grandmother said.
A North Carolina woman is behind bars three months after her son’s death, accused of being so negligent in getting medical care for the boy that he passed away. WRAL reports that Deysi Yhuriko Martinez, 22, of Garner, is accused of “negligent child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury” after her son, Eric, died in August after …
An 82-year-old Houston, Texas, woman has sued Red Lobster, accusing the restaurant of getting her so drunk that she fell in the parking lot and broke her hip, as reported by Inside Edition. The Houston Chronicle reports that Marlene Spencer filed the lawsuit last week, alleging that she was hospitalized for six days and underwent a …
A Missouri Highway Patrol trooper was sentenced to 10 days in jail for the 2014 drowning death of a handcuffed Iowa man, as reported by WHO TV. The Kansas City Star reports that Judge Roger Prokes handed down the jail sentence to Anthony Piercy as “shock time.” In June, Piercy pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor boating violation, …
A man is facing charges after he did nothing to help a woman who drowned on Sunday. The Sun reported that Elaine O’Donovan, 41, died early Sunday while in the sea off the Canary Islands. The Irishwoman was reportedly vacationing with family at the time. Authorities believe the 41-year-old decided to take a swim after a night …
