A teacher’s aide at a Pennsylvania middle school was arrested Tuesday for allegedly assaulting a 12-year-old boy with special needs. Per WPVI, Erin Horan, an aide at Indian Valley Middle School, is accused of attacking Tony Walston on April 12 after he walked outside the school and sat on some steps. Investigators said the aide followed Walston and …
A New Orleans woman who neglected her grandmother to the point that she died from a bedsore-related illness will be heading to prison. The Advocate reported that Lauren Looney, 21, will spend five years in prison for the September 2014 death of her grandmother, Bessie Looney, 82. Lauren Looney was 17 when Bessie Looney’s emaciated …
A New Jersey state trooper is accused of pulling over two women and threatening to arrest them if they didn’t give him their number. In a statement issued to The Press of Atlantic City, New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that Eric Richardson, 32, is facing various charges, including official misconduct, criminal coercion, and tampering with …
A Michigan mother arrested Wednesday for allegedly stuffing her two infant daughters in a suitcase before a visit from Child Protective Services has been charged with four felonies. Katrina Childress, 26, was reportedly arrested Wednesday afternoon in front of her Flint home. According to MLive, Childress was walking at a local park with her twin …
Genene Jones, an ex-Texas nurse convicted in 1984 of killing a baby and trying to kill another, reportedly admitted to murdering dozens of babies during her imprisonment. Jones, 67, is facing five new murder charges for the deaths of four boys and one girl, ranging in ages from three months to two years. According to Texas Monthly, …
A Michigan mother with a history of mental illness reportedly put her two infant daughters in a suitcase and left them on the curb before attempting to flee Wednesday. Per MLive, Flint police and Genesee County Child Protective Services responded to the 500 block of West Pierson Road at around 2 p.m. Police said Katrina Childress, 26, put …
A former 911 operator in Houston, Texas, who hung up on countless people seeking help learned her fate this week. Crenshanda Williams, 44, was found guilty of interference with emergency telephone calls Wednesday and was sentenced to 10 days in jail and 18 months probation. For a year and a half, Williams took calls at …
A Massachusetts woman is speaking out days after her accused rapist was allowed to post bond, resulting in him fleeing to Ghana to avoid prosecution. Emily Murray told WFXT that Uber driver Frederick Amfo raped her in the back of his car on April 8. Amfo allegedly had dropped off another customer and locked the car doors …
Officials have launched an investigation after pictures surfaced reportedly showing babies tied up in a sleep sack at a Kansas day care. A woman named Tanya told KHSB that her 7-month-old son was among the babies shown in the pictures taken at Miss Anne’s Daycare. Tayna claimed the Department of Children and Families informed her of the pictures …
A Florida woman is facing first-degree murder charges for allegedly killing her newborn twins within hours of giving birth. According to Florida Today, Rachael Lynn Thomas, 30, is accused of killing her twin infants—a boy and girl—then throwing the newborn girl in the trash. Thomas reportedly told officers that she didn’t know she was pregnant until she …
A Nashville man known for dressing up as Spider-Man to wash windows at a children’s hospital has been sentenced to 105 years on child pornography charges. According to WKRN, footage taken in Jarratt A. Turner’s basement apartment depicted him molesting children between the ages of 1 and 2-and-a-half. Prosecutor Don Cochran said Turner would befriend parents to have access …
A California couple has reportedly confessed to torturing and murdering an elderly Vietnam veteran then burning his body. Stacie Mendoza, 38, and Jose Mendoza, 36, are accused of killing retired contractor Kenneth Coyle, 70, on April 5 or 6 at his Hanford home. Days later, police said the couple—with their three children in tow—got a …
