A New Mexico couple was arrested on Tuesday for keeping their 15-year-old daughter in a chicken coop for months. According to KRQE, Patricia Madrid, 36, and Jammy Jackson, 59, allowed the girl to use the bathroom twice daily and fed her only ramen noodles. Other children in the home ate whatever they wanted and were …
A teenage West Virginia dad faces child abuse charges after a grandmother showed police video of him aggressively throwing a 4-month-old baby down and holding his hand over the infant’s mouth. Jeremiah Burkhammer, 19, was charged with child neglect creating risk of injury and strangulation, WDTV reported. The video shows Burkhammer shortly before 2 a.m. …
A Texas mother had been charged with four counts of injury to a child after she beat her children with a dog leash because none of them would admit who left a tissue on the floor. Ebony Gonzalez, in her early 30s (local media gave three different ages), also reportedly turned on the stove and …
A Michigan mother has been arrested for allegedly abandoning her three children in a Pontiac home to fend for themselves for four or five years, occassionally dropping food off for them. Oakland County deputies were called to home and found it in deplorable condition, with piles of garbage as deep as four feet in some …
An Arizona grandmother has been indicted on abuse charges for the treatment of her 13-year-old granddaughter. A Maricopa County grand jury charged Virginia Lujan, 55, with two counts of child abuse, two counts of tampering with evidence, one count of tampering with a witness, and three counts of contributeing to the dependency of a child, …
A Miami mom was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and aggravated child abuse after she allegedly beat her daughter with a metal guitar and broomstick because she had to wait 10 minutes until she came out of school. An arrest report says that 52-year-old Sayda Orellana Castellanos was picking her daughter up …
An eastern Kentucky woman was arrested last week for child abuse after reports said her son “showed signs of torture.” The returned to school on Tuesday after not attending since before Christmas and appeared to have “chipped front teeth and a busted nose,” WYMT reports. A school official called police, and the boy told investigators …
A Texas stepmom has been convicted of abusing her stepdaughter after the girl suffered years of psychological and physical abuse. KWTX reported that after almost six years of abuse, jurors in Waco’s 19th State District Court found Marisela Garcia, 47, guilty on Wednesday. The decision came after only 15 minutes of deliberation, and they recommended …
A Pennsylvania mother and stepfather have been charged with endangering the welfare of children after their twin teens were found “very malnourished and extremely thin.” A criminal complaint says that Joshua and Tracy Dechant face two felony counts in Lehigh County, KYW reports. The county district attorney’s office said that Pennsylvania State Police responded to …
A Georgia couple was arrested on cruelty to children and aggravated battery charges last week, nearly a year after their doctors found 29 fractures all over their infant daughter’s body. According to WSB, the 6-week-old child’s mother, Savannah Cox, and grandmother brought the baby to Atrium Health Floyd Medical Center in February 2024 with a …
A 13-year-old Arizona girl died on Wednesday, a day after she was reportedly found living in a cage According to KNXV, Virginia Lujan, 55, called Tempe police on Tuesday about her granddaughter who was not breathing. Officials said the girl was covered in sores and bruises and lived in a makeshift cage that had a …
A Texas man was arrested this week after Lubbock police charged him with severely injuring a 6-month-old baby. The infant was with Benjamin Farrell, 35, for several hours on Monday, EverythingLubbock.com reported, although the outlet did not say why he was in charge of the child during that time. When a family member came to …
