An Ohio courtroom erupted in chaos Monday after a former juvenile court judge was sentenced to six months in jail for illegally using her position to help her brother keep his county job. WLWT reported that a supporter of Hamilton County Court Judge Tracie Hunter was spotted rushing the defense table after Judge Patrick Dinkelacker …
An unlicensed day care operator in Ohio who was accused of sexually abusing children in her care will spend 30 days in jail after recently accepting a plea deal which offered a lighter sentence. Kimberly Hignite, 52, learned her punishment Monday after pleading guilty to 14 counts of child endangering. In addition to allegedly sexually …
An Ohio woman scheduled to stand trial in September for allegedly killing her newborn daughter is suffering from an eating disorder which resulted in her dwindling down to 82 pounds, according to her lawyer. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported that an attorney for Skylar Richardson, 20, Charles M. Rittgers, revealed during a July 1 court hearing …
Court proceedings came to an abrupt halt Thursday after two sons of a slain woman reportedly decided to attack the man who admitted to gunning her down in 2017. WKBN reported that relatives of Elizabeth Pledger-Stewart, 46, were about to provide their victim impact statements when Anthony Dees, 30, and Jerome Stewart, 23, decided to …
Authorities in Ohio say a man has been arrested on suspicion of killing his young son and three others — including another child — during an incident reported to Cleveland police on Tuesday. As of the latest police statements available, it is unclear what they believe Armond Johnson’s motive was in the violent crime. He …
An Ohio man was arrested Tuesday for the deaths of his wife and three of her relatives who were reportedly found shot to death in the family’s apartment in April. Gurpreet Singh, 37, was charged with the aggravated murders of his wife, Shalinder Kaur, 39, her parents, Hakiakat Singh Panag, 59, and Parmjit Kaur, 62, …
The mother of an Ohio man on death row for murdering at least three women was killed Saturday evening amid a stabbing spree that also left three children injured, according to reports. Jalen Plummer, 18, was charged with aggravated murder for allegedly fatally stabbing his grandmother, Diane Madison, 67, at her Collingwood home shortly after …
An Ohio man admitted Wednesday in federal court that he traveled to another state to have sex with a 14-year-old girl, only to be met by an undercover police officer. Donald E. Ward, 59, used social media and text messaging to correspond with someone he thought was a minor. After weeks of correspondence, Ward traveled …
A former substitute school nurse in Ohio has admitted to having a sexual encounter with a male student at a hotel last summer. WCPO reported that Delena Clever, 48, will spend 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to contributing to the delinquency of a minor and sexual imposition. Clever, who was a nurse for …
An Ohio woman was arrested Thursday for the murder of her newborn son, whose partially-dismembered body was reportedly discovered in a wooded area in 1993. Gail Eastwood-Ritchey, 49, allegedly admitted that she gave birth to the boy and left him in a trash bag she abandoned in Geauga County, where animals dismembered the corpse and …
A registered sex offender in Ohio admitted Monday to molesting two minor brothers who he came into contact with while volunteering as a church bus driver. As reported by WKRC, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Ohio announced that Jory Leedy, 49, pleaded guilty in federal court to several counts of sex …
‘I hope and pray every single day that you get the same treatment in jail that you showed to my daughter,’ the slain girl’s father said
