Children found weighing only 13 pounds: Blind, nearly lifeless after ‘mom’ allegedly abandons them
Child Abuse
One of the little girls had a bedsore so severe that bone was exposed
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
‘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 …
Child Abuse
September 10, 2017
Abuse of 2-year-old girl by parents was ‘torture,’ leading to brain bleeding, bone fractures, doctor says
Authorities arrested a New Jersey couple after their 2-year-old daughter was airlifted to a hospital for brain bleeding, burns and bone fractures — injuries one doctor said came from abuse equivalent to “torture.” Police on Friday detained Yolanda Torres, 33, and Jose Velez, 52, of Galloway, New Jersey, the Star-Ledger reports. Authorities believe that Torres …
Murder
September 9, 2017
Serial killer slept next to victim for two weeks in ‘Murder Mobile,’ called dead body ‘baby’
A serial killer who authorities say gruesomely murdered seven people in Connecticut, some of whom he raped and dismembered in a van he called the “Murder Mobile,” will likely spend the rest of his life behind bars. William Devin Howell, 47, pleaded guilty Friday to six of the killings, the Associated Press reports. Howell was …
Child Abuse
September 9, 2017
‘Absolute squalor’: 4-year-old girl covered in flea bites rescued from home filled with animals, urine, feces
‘Police officers observed fleas jumping out of the minor’s hair’
Child Abuse
September 8, 2017
Boarding school owner abused, sexually exploited teens under his care: Police
The owner of a now-shuttered private boarding school pressured a teenager into sex, forced girls to undress for “body image therapy” and held other students in solitary confinement, authorities say. Prosecutors on Friday charged Benjamin Trane, the former director of Midwest Academy, with third-degree sexual abuse, sexual exploitation by a counselor and child endangerment, as …
Child Abuse
September 4, 2017
AGAIN?! Police accuse second worker of underage sex crime at Ohio fair
The amusement company let him come back to work the next day
Animal Crimes
September 4, 2017
Ohio man slits puppies’ throats before trying to kill himself: Police
Ohio police have arrested a man after he allegedly slit the throats of several puppies before attempting to kill himself, the Mansfield News Journal reports. Christopher Vandenberg, 38, was charged with felony animal cruelty after police were called to his apartment on Wednesday. Vandenberg’s wife told officers that she had left five pit bull mix …
Murder
September 3, 2017
Husband kills wife, stuffs body in trash bag because she refused sex
A Georgia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his wife because she wouldn’t have sex with him, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. After a two-day trial earlier this week, a jury found Fernando Guzman-Perez guilty of murdering Yamilet Rodriguez-Vences, whose body was found in orange-colored trash bags amongst tires in …
Sex Offenders
September 3, 2017
Man accused of sexually assaulting, torturing, and burning multiple victims — including a homeless woman
Victor Hursch allegedly kidnapped and strangled a woman, burned her with cigarettes, and hurled lit fireworks at her
