A young girl is dead and an adult woman critically wounded in what appears to be a murder and attempted suicide in Jacksonville, Florida, on Wednesday. The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office told First Coast News that deputies responded to a 911 call from someone in the home and found the girl, who was under the age …
Beth R. waited nearly 30 years to confront the man who sexually abused her from the time she was 11 years old until she was 16, and she did so bravely, reading her 11-page victim impact statement in full during the sentencing hearing for Charles LeRoy Rutledge in San Diego.
An Indiana woman is behind bars after police say she admitted to abusing her friend’s daughter while babysitting her. Citing court documents, Fox 59 reports that authorities arrived at the Ball Memorial Hospital on August 14 in Muncie, after a report of possible child abuse. The mother of a young girl in the hospital spoke …
A Minnesota couple have been charged with murder in the death of the husband’s 8-year-old daughter, who weighed just 45 pounds at the time of her death. The Minneapolis Star Tribune said an autopsy revealed that Autumn Hallow had atrophied muscles and significant hair loss, puncture wounds on her head, bleeding on the brain and …
A Lexington, Tennessee, woman has been charged with burning a 4-year-old child with a hot clothes iron, WBBJ reports. Amanda Coffman, 41, was arrested on Tuesday and charged with aggravated child abuse, according to court documents, the station said. Coffman reportedly told police the child fell on the iron, causing a “severe burn.” But she …
An Ohio man has been charged with murder after his girlfriend’s 18-month-old daughter died from serious head injuries and his explanation of how the injuries happened was inconsistent with what doctors found. Devon Mallory, 31, has been charged with aggravated murder in the death of Sofia Echevarria, who died July 30, five days after she …
A 2-year-old boy accidentally shot himself in the head Saturday morning in northwest Atlanta and remained in critical condition on Sunday, WSB reports. The incident took place at around 10 a.m., Atlanta police said. Atlanta police announced on Sunday they had arrested Dontavious Wells, 31, multiple counts related to the shooting. “It appears the child …
A Texas toddler who was the subject of an AMBER Alert in June before his body was found in a dumpster had various injuries at the time of his death, an autopsy released Thursday revealed. Laura Sanchez, 35, (also known as Laura Villalon) was charged with first-degree felony injury to child in relation to the …
A Pennsylvania woman has been arrested over a February incident in which she allegedly threw her then-boyfriend’s 4-year-old daughter down a flight of stairs in a laundry basket. Brittany Renee Zimmerman, 26, was taken into custody Friday by Westmoreland County police on charges of aggravated assault, child endangerment, simple assault, and reckless endangerment, TribLive reported. …
A 3-year-old in northwestern Mississippi tested positive for amphetamines and methamphetamine, prompting an investigation that has landed a woman in jail and a man on the run. Cassie Neely, 35, and Paul Eric Leathers, 47, were the caretakers of the toddler, and there were other children in the home, the Lee County Sheriff’s Department said. …
A convicted sex offender in California forced his way into a vehicle in San Leandro and kissing a 2-year-old on the lips, the San Leandro Police Department said. Ralf Peter Schmidt-Dunker, 45, was arrested last week and formally charged with committing a lewd act with a child under 14 this week. The incident took place …
Shortly after a New Mexico girl’s mother died, she went to live with her biological father. She’s now dead and her father has been arrested. KOB 4 reports that 8-year-old Samantha Rubino was found wrapped in a plastic trash bag and left outside of her father Juan Lerma’s Carlsbad home on Saturday. Samantha and her …
