A 14-year-old Miami girl was raped in a high school bathroom by three teen boys, including two who have sexually transmitted diseases, WSVN-TV reports. The ninth-grader told the television station the first encounter involved a boy who grabbed her sweater and wouldn’t let her go, and then forced her to have anal sex in a …
The parents of a Kansas girl who died after being injured at a traveling carnival are suing the carnival’s operator, KWCH-TV reports. Court records show that Shaun Bartonek and Rheannon Babcock filed the wrongful death lawsuit in Nov. against the operator, Missouri-based Evans United Shows. Bartonek and Babcock are the parents of Pressley Bartonek, who …
A baby in Australia appears to have been subjected to appalling abuse by his teenage parents, in one instance being waterboarded by the couple, the Sydney Morning Herald reports. Videos uploaded to Snapchat Saturday night depict the child crying and attempting to take a plastic bag off his head. In the background, people can be …
A California man pleaded not guilty Friday to murdering a beloved Ivy League student, NBC Los Angeles reports. Prosecutors have charged 20-year-old Samuel Woodward with killing his former high school classmate, Blaze Bernstein, while he was home from college during winter break. Investigators say Bernstein met up with Woodward on Jan. 2 at a park …
A Georgia woman says her brother was murdered and that police botched the investigation from the get-go. Donald Fickey Jr., who went by DJ, was found dead in Oct. 2016 in what authorities initially said was a suicide by shotgun. Physical evidence at the scene and some witness statements were consistent with a suicide, WDEF-TV reports. …
United Airlines is coming under fire for removing a woman from a plane who was trying to see her dying mother, the New York Times reports. Earlier this month, Carrol Amrich was attempting to fly from Colorado to Minnesota. Her landlord, Ines Prelas, had purchased her a $585 plane ticket through the website Traveler Help Desk. …
Amanda Knox is reportedly charging up to $10,000 to speak about the bizarre murder of her former roommate, Meredith Kercher. Knox made headlines around the world in 2007 when she was arrested for what prosecutors claimed was the sex- and drug-fueled killing of Kercher, 21, an exchange student from England. The two had shared an …
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Investigators are considering sending cadaver dogs into the home of David and Louise Turpin, where their 13 malnourished and abused children were rescued earlier this month. The dogs could help detect whether there are other children who did not survive the house’s horrific conditions, Crime Watch Daily reports. The news site also reports that police …
A 13-year-old Texas girl who was raped by her brother miscarried the child after members of her family took turns stomping on her, the Dallas Morning News reports. Many of those family members have now been sentenced to prison in connection with the case, which dates back to 2012– when the victim’s brother, Robert Cayald (pictured …
A 42-year-old Alabama woman who led a double life as an internet exhibitionist was found dead and partially nude outside her home last week, but police have revealed few details about the case, Al.com reports. Investigators are treating the death of the woman, Kathleen Dawn West, as a homicide, according to the newspaper. A neighbor …
Authorities say a Florida couple called out the name of their son as he violently stabbed them earlier this week, another incident among several in recent years of teens attacking family members in the Jacksonville area. The 16-year-old suspect, Raylan Wagner, is charged with aggravated battery in connection with the stabbings at the family’s apartment …
