A North Carolina nanny was arrested this week after she was seen on a nanny cam force-feeding a 2-year-old boy. Max Oglesby posted a short clip on Facebook of what he said was a two-hour video of the nanny, Lauren Rowe, wrenching his son’s arms behind him while forcing bites of a pot pie into …
Three young Indiana children “got hold” of a baggie of fentanyl pills this week and ingested them, leaving one toddler dead and two others hospitalized. Six people have been arrested in relation to the incident, including 3-year-old Kamari Opperman’s mother and grandparents. Emergency crews were called to the Evansville home Wednesday morning, the Courier & …
Kentucky police have arrested a woman whose 5-month-old son was reportedly found in the attic of her home on Tuesday. Kentucky State Police said in a statement that the infant is believed to have died on Monday at his home in Cadiz, though officers did not find him until a day later. The baby’s mother, …
An Alabama nurse is facing felony charges after allegedly torturing and abusing her minor adoptive daughter. According to Al.com, a 39-year-old Trussville resident Kala Blakely, who manages a family health care clinic in Moody, has been charged with the attempted murder of a 12-year-old girl. Court documents indicate that an investigation began in January after …
While it wasn’t clear just how long the children had been abandoned in the apartment, Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzalez said it was an “extended” period of time, “and I emphasize ‘extended.'”
New York police on Saturday arrested a man who punched an 11-year-old girl in the face and traded blows with a 15-year-old boy who came to her defense. Nathaniel DiRenzo, 29, was seen on video attacking the girl on Wednesday in Gramercy Park’s Stuyvesant Square Park, the New York Daily News reported. The incident began, …
A Texas man is accused of so violently abusing his son – including holding him underwater, hitting him with a baseball bat, and slamming him against a wall – that the child now has post-traumatic stress disorder, KPRC-TV reports. Authorities allege that James Walker, 40, harmed his 10-year-old son multiple times between September and December …
An Indiana couple has been arrested after a hospital called police and reported a 3-year-old with critical injuries inconsistent with the story told by the child’s father and girlfriend. Derek Pierce, 31, and Dakota McHenry, 25, have been charged with neglect of an infant causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice; Pierce also faces …
A Colorado man and woman are facing charges after police say they severely abused their 6-week-old twins. According to Fox News, deputies in Jefferson County responded after hospital staff contacted them about an infant boy brought in with significant injuries. While at the hospital, deputies learned that the victim had a twin brother at home. …
An Iowa man has been charged with murder in the death of his six-month-old son who was found unresponsive in an Iowa Falls apartment in March. In addition to first-degree murder, Nicholas Edward Cox, 22, also faces a charge of child endangerment causing death, the Times Citizen reported. Iowa Falls Police said they were called …
A Missouri dad has been charged with murder following the death of his 8-month-old daughter last month. The Pulaski County Prosecuting Attorney Office said the little girl was found dead on August 20 while she was in the care of Dillon Snider, 24. An autopsy determined she died from violent trauma to the head and …
A Las Vegas mother shot her boyfriend after he allegedly threw her 5-year-daughter from a third-floor balcony because he believed the little girl “was full of bad spirits.” Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said they responded to a call Sunday afternoon and found the unconscious child, who was taken to the hospital, and man with gunshot …
