A Philadelphia man has been accused of murdering and raping his 1-year-old stepson. The man also has an unsettling past, filled with criminal activity, according to CBS Philadelphia. Saleem Salaam, 24, was arrested and given multiple felony charges when police responded to a report of an unresponsive child on Wednesday afternoon. Salaam, 24, told them there …
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 …
The Chester County, Pennsylvania, District Attorney (DA) says that two drug counselors at a southeastern Pennsylvania addiction facility overdosed and died after taking drugs while at work on Monday. CNN reports that first responders were called to the Freedom Ridge Recovery Lodge in West Brandywine Township on Monday afternoon, after two live-in drug counselors reportedly overdosed on heroin. …
Neighbors react as more details emerge about the man who left his children home alone, including a 1-day-old infant.
A Scranton, Pennsylvania, man is facing several charges for allegedly selling heroin to an informant while holding his infant daughter. Authorities confiscated hundreds of bags of heroin from Eric M. Ward, 33, and Katherine Huanira, 27, on Thursday, according to The Scranton Times-Tribune. The investigation was carried out by the state police vice unit, borough police, and Lackawanna …
An Upper Darby, Pennsylvania, day care worker is facing charges after a surveillance camera caught her pushing a young girl down a flight of stairs. CBS reports that the surveillance camera was installed just in time to capture 52-year-old Sarah Gable push the child, as she stood behind her at the Child Care of the Future daycare …
An 88-year-old Pennsylvania woman used her quick wits to avoid being sexually assaulted by a home intruder, by telling him she was HIV positive. The Mirror reports that Helen Reynolds, who doesn’t really have HIV, was attacked on February 17 by a man who knocked on her Parkesburg apartment door, posing as an apartment employee. When she …
