The Kentucky parents of a toddler and an infant and their paternal grandparents have been arrested after police found the children strapped into a car seat and baby swing, apparently for days. “The children were found covered in urine and feces that appeared to be several days old,” an arrest citation says, according to The …
A 21-year-old Louisiana mother is in jail after authorities found she had beaten her 4-year-old child with a plastic utensil and dressed them in a plastic trash bag. The Allen Parish Sheriff’s Office said it responded to a 911 call on Thursday from a witness to the mistreatment and found the child with injuries to …
A Utah dad has been charged with aggravated child abuse after his 2-month-old son was brought to a hospital with a brain bleed. A police affidavit said that Jacob Beal, 28, was alone in his apartment with the child while the boy’s mother was at work. The family lives in a basement apartment, with other …
A Texas grandmother has been been arrested on charges authorities say stem from a case of Munchausen by proxy. Lisa Campbell-Goins, 56, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with exploitation of a child, injury to a child, and unlawful restraint, the Tarrant County Sheriff’s Office said. The charges include having an unnecessary gastric feeding tube …
A former Virginia neonatal nurse has been arrested in connection with injuries suffered by babies in the Henrico Doctors’ Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The Henrico County Police Department said the charges against 26-year-old Erin Elizabeth Ann Strotman stem from one incident in November but that they are looking at other incidents at the hospital …
The wife of a pastor will testify against her husband regarding allegations of abusing eight children left in their care. Law & Crime reports that a frustrated Keith Holt has learned that his wife, Candy Holt, will be testifying against him as part of a plea deal. While alone in an interrogation room, Keith Holt …
An Ohio couple pleaded guilty to torturing and abusing their five adopted children. Cincinnati.com reports that on Friday, Charles Edmonson, 64, and his wife, Matthew Edmonson, 50, entered guilty pleas in Clermont County Common Pleas Court. Charles Edmonson pleaded guilty to kidnapping, felonious assault, and three counts of child endangerment. As part of a plea …
Police in Colorado arrested a man and woman after finding a 1-year-old baby waaring only a diaper abandoned in Denver. Deputies from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office arrived at the scene around 9:20 a.m. on Christmas Day after receiving a 911 call from a witness who spotted the baby in a car seat abandoned in …
Three caretakers of a 4-year-old Missouri girl were arrested after the girl was brought to a hospital unresponsive and then lifeflighted to a St. Louis hospital 200 miles away. James Calhoun Lamb, Aireal Brishay Cole, and Derrick Eugene Barnby were charged with multiple counts of child abuse, KMZU reported. Lamb, the girl’s father, reportedly told …
Two Georgia men will spend the rest of their lives in prison for sexually abusing their two adopted sons. According to FOX 5 Atlanta, Zachary and William Zulock were sentenced to 100 years in prison without the chance of parole after pleading guilty to multiple charges of aggravated child abuse and exploitation. District Attorney Randy …
A Texas mother has been charged with nine felony counts related to the medical abuse of her 15-year-old daugther, and investigators are looking into allegations that she may have lied about her own medical diagnoses and defrauded Medicaid and invidual donors for a cancer diagnosis she didn’t have. Denise Zamora, 40, is accused of submitting …
A 20-year-old Missouri man is facing child abuse charges after his infant daughter was found with 14 fractures all over her tiny body. According to a probable cause statement, Richard Leonard and his wife took their 2-month-old daughter to a pediatrician on Wednesday, and the doctor told them they should take the baby to the …
