Like father, like son? Jeffrey Sandusky’s son admits to child sex abuse
Child Abuse
The son of the disgraced Penn State football coach admitted to pursuing teen sisters, asking them for nude photos and oral sex
Juveniles
September 16, 2017
Teen who stabbed classmate as an offering to ‘Slender Man’ found to be mentally ill
One of the teens criminally charged with stabbing a classmate in 2014 to please the fictional character Slender Man will be sent to a mental institution instead of prison. Late Friday night, a Wisconsin jury found that Anissa Weier (pictured left), now 15, was mentally ill at the time of the attack, CNN reports. Weier …
Child Abuse
September 15, 2017
Couple beat, gag and bind 4-year-old twins to wall with duct tape, socks and shoe laces: Cops
Police arrested an Ohio couple after officers allegedly found the man’s 4-year-old twin boys bound, gagged, and duct taped to a wall in their College Hill home, as reported by WLWT. According to KGMH, James Howell, 26, and girlfriend Jamie Carver, 30, are charged with two counts of kidnapping and child endangering. Cincinnati police Detective Janette …
Child Abuse
September 15, 2017
‘He is a predator’: Ex-pastor will spend only 30 days in jail for sexually abusing 9-year-old girl
A former North Carolina pastor who admitted to sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl has been sentenced to just 30 days in jail as punishment for the crime. Eric Dave Jones, 49, pleaded guilty this week in Haywood County Superior Court to a charge of indecent liberties with a child, the Citizen-Times reports. While the felony charge …
Child Abuse
September 15, 2017
Mom tries to kill young kids by strapping them inside car and connecting poisonous exhaust pipe
A Pennsylvania mother was convicted Friday of trying to kill her two young children in a failed murder-suicide attempt, The Citizens’ Voice reports. Melissa Scholl, 34, was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder after prosecutors alleged she strapped the kids in her vehicle and then connected a garden hose from the exhaust pipe …
Family Crime
September 15, 2017
Evil stepmom gets 10 years in prison for spiking toddler’s sippy cup with nail polish
A DuPage County judge ordered an Illinois stepmother who spiked a toddler’s sippy cup with nail polish to spend the next 10 years behind bars. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Andrea Vazquez-Hernandez, 37, tried to poison her 17-month-old step-daughter with nail polish on Sunday evening in May 2016. Vazquez-Hernandez called 911 and claimed the little girl accidentally got into the polish, …
child endangerment
September 15, 2017
Mom arrives at daycare to pick up 1-year-old son, not realizing tot sat DEAD in sweltering van ALL DAY: Police
A Missouri mother who arrived at her 1-year-old son’s day care Monday afternoon allegedly realized that she forgot to drop him off that morning. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that daycare officials and police concluded that Tate Mitchell sat in the hot van for hours on Monday. Though Mitchell’s mother arrived at Casa dia Montessori School at around …
School Crimes
September 15, 2017
‘I don’t feel safe’: Teacher allegedly assaults middle-schooler after he sits for Pledge of Allegiance
A Farmington Hills, Michigan, teacher has been accused of assaulting a sixth-grader who sat for the Pledge of Allegiance, as reported by ClickOnDetroit. Stone Chaney was in his first week at East Middle School when the alleged incident occurred. The Detroit Free Press reports that Chaney said that one teacher “violently” yanked him out of his chair Thursday …
Police
September 15, 2017
Former St. Louis officer acquitted in killing of black man; prosecutors accused him of planting a gun in the victim’s car
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of a black man who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, and hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the streets of downtown St. Louis to protest the verdict that had stirred fears of civil unrest …
September 15, 2017
Truck driver says he was FIRED for trying to help Tampa residents during Hurricane Irma
The driver had the full support of local police to donate plywood to distressed residents
Family Crime
September 15, 2017
Florida private investigator allegedly punches husband in face for interrupting her private moment; charged with domestic assault
Her husband thought she was having sex with another man. Alas, she was alone.
Police
September 15, 2017
GRAPHIC VIDEO: Police fatally shoot ’emotionally disturbed’ man armed with knife, fake gun
On Thursday, the NYPD released body-cam footage showing a man being shot and killed during a standoff in his Bronx apartment. DNAinfo reports that Miguel Richards, 31, is the man seen in the footage holding a knife and toy gun in the corner of a room on September 6. A landlord reportedly called police after not hearing from the …
