A 31-year-old Wisconsin woman has been charged with murder in the death of her 6-year-old son earlier this year. A criminal complaint says that Josie Dikeman stands accused of killing Alexavier Pedrin on February 11, WEAU reports. According to the complaint, Dikeman called 911 that morning and said her son was unresponsive. Crews arrived on …
A Georgia woman has been charged with abandoning her newborn in a plastic bag and leaving her for dead in the woods four years ago. The infant, dubbed “Baby India” by hospital staff, survived the ordeal and is now “happy, healthy and in a safe place,” Forsyth County Sheriff Ron H. Freeman said at a …
Arrest warrants for a Georgia mother and father accused of trying to starve their 10-year-old son to death provide detailed accounts of the disturbing living conditions the victim endured. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tyler and Krista Schindley have been charged with attempted murder, false imprisonment, cruelty to children, and other related charges. Police found the …
Georgia neighbors who helped a child after he escaped accused abusive parents say they’re concerned about potentially overlooking signs that something was amiss. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Tyler and Krista Schindley have been charged with attempted murder, false imprisonment, cruelty to children, and other related charges. Police found the victim, a 10-year-old, alone in a …
A Georgia couple has been charged with trying to starve their 10-year-old son to death. A neighbor found the boy wandering alone in his neighborhood on Friday after he escaped the home. Griffin police reported that he was barefoot and hungry and begged to not be taken back home, WAGA reported. “As a mother, I …
An Oklahoma man with an apparent fascination with Nazism will likely die behind bars for inflicting horrific abuse on a 3-year-old girl that included the use of a shock collar, restraints and cold showers, Fox 23 reports. This week, a Rogers County judge sentenced 27-year-old Gustus Pennington to six life sentences in prison after he …
A Texas mother is accused of tying her son to a seatbelt and then dragging him down a highway as punishment for insulting her, KFDX-TV reports. On May 2, authorities arrested 61-year-old Marion Luise Stade in connection with the allegations, which reportedly occurred earlier in the day. The situation began when someone called the Archer …
A Florida man has been arrested after he allegedly fractured the skull of his girlfriend’s 5-year-old son with a mop handle because the boy urinated in his bed. An arrest report says Shawn Stone, 32, was charged with aggravated child abuse after the girlfriend watched the incident unfold in a camera on her phone, WOFL …
Police in West Virginia have arrested three people after a 2-year-old twin boy was hospitalized on Monday in an apparent case of child abuse. WCHS reported that emergency crews responded to a Jackson County home for a toddler boy who was unresponsive due to malnutrition and dehydration. The boy’s parents, Michael and Lylee Gillenwater, 24 …
The wife of a Baltimore mother convicted in the death of her 4-year-old son in 2019 has also pleaded guilty in the boy’s death. Malachi Lawson was scalded in a bath and left without medical attention for nine days before he died, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The stepmom, Shatika Lawson, was allegedly distracted on the …
An Ohio woman was arrested last week for allegedly injecting her 9-month-old daughter with an unknown substance at a hospital. On Friday, Columbus police responded to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, where the baby was being treated. Hospital staff told cops that the baby’s parents were in the room with the mother, Stephanie Whitley, 26, who injected her …
A car belonging to a North Carolina couple wanted for child abuse was found abandoned 260 miles away in a mobile home park in Georgia. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said that Brandon Augustine, 24, and Mildred Chestnut, 23, brought their 4-month-old son to Atrium Hospital on March 20 and said they’d been in a minor accident, WXIA …
