A California couple was arrested on Tuesday, months after their 2-year-old daughter was reportedly found buried in the wilderness with injuries consistent with abuse. On January 8, Shasta County police received a welfare check request for the toddler girl. An interview with her parents, Riley and Amanda Royal, 28 and 24, revealed the girl had …
Mississippi police arrested a daycare employee last week after she was allegedly filmed abusing a 3-year-old boy with autism. Kierra Shavers, 24, is an employee at Faithfully Yours Learning Center Inc. in Gautier. The victim’s mother told the Sun-Herald that before Shavers’ arrest, she received two videos: the first showing Shavers hitting her toddler son …
A teacher at a Texas daycare center has been arrested and charged with severely injuring a 3-month-old child in a baby bouncer, causing brain and retinal damage. Jasmine Collum, 24, is charged with injury to a child and is being held at the Bell County Jail on a $125,000 bond, KCEN reported. The Temple Police …
The mother of a six-month-old baby found covered by more than 50 rat bites last year won’t spend any further time in jail. Angel Schonabaum, who initially pleaded not guilty to neglect charges, reversed course just before her trial was to begin last month and pleaded guilty, the Evansville Courier & Press reported. At a …
The mother of a toddler boy found dead last month and her boyfriend have been charged in the child’s death. Manitowoc County District Attorney Jacalyn LaBre announced at a news conference on Thursday that Katrina Baur, Elijah Vue’s mother, has been charged with chronic neglect of a child resulting in death and neglecting a child, …
A mother whose 4-year-old son was found dead in his Harlem apartment on Sunday has been charged with his death and is expected in court on Tuesday. Nytavia Ragsdale, 26, faces charges of criminally negligent homicide and endangering the welfare of a child, WABC reported. Officers were called to the Harlem apartment shortly before 7:45 …
Two people have been arrested in California after a 2-year-old girl died from traumatic injuries consistent with abuse. Bakersfield Police officers responded to a call for a medical emergency on Thursday and took the toddler to a hospital, where she died, Bakerfield Now reported. Gregory Joseph MacDonald, 29, and Chandy Ann McCarthy, 40, were arrested …
Florida authorities arrested a man last week for stomping his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son in May, causing a lacerated liver. Oscar Cedell Miller, 25, was released almost immediately on a $10,000 bond, and Miami Gardens Police didn’t explain why they waited four months to arrest him. An arrest report says the investigation began on May 25 …
West Virginia police arrested a woman on Monday after a child in handcuffs reportedly fled to a home alleging abuse. A Charleston resident called the police about a girl wearing handcuffs coming to their home and claiming they were being abused and neglected. Officers responded to the girl’s residence and arrested Laura Southworth, 54, noting …
A central Georgia mother and father have been charged after their two young children were found with injuries and hospitalized. A witness called in a report of children in danger at a home in Del Park Thursday morning, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said. Responding deputies found a 2-year-old boy and and 4-year-old girl with …
A Florida mother has been charged with child abuse and neglect after she allegedly shoved her 1-year-old daughter out of her car because the child spilled sjampoo. The incident happened on September 5 in Hialeah and was captured on a Ring doorbell camera, as CrimeOnline reported, but at the time it appeared the little girl …
A North Carolina man played Santa Claus at a theme park has been arrested on charges of sexually abusing children from March 2023 to March 2024. The Cherokee Indian Police Department said 78-year-old Bevier Hasbrouck Sleight III is facing 13 charges related to child abuse. The charges include aggravated sexual abuse, sexual abuse, abusive sexual …
