A North Carolina teen was arrested Sunday after a video surfaced on social media allegedly showing her abusing her young child. WRAL reported that the video appears to show a toddler, wearing only a diaper, sitting in the front passenger seat of a car as someone strikes the child in the stomach and head. Someone …
A young Florida boy has permanent physical scars on his body after being abused for years by two adults, CBS Tampa Bay reports. The Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office announced this week that deputies arrested 26-year-old Samantha Smith and 31-year-old boyfriend, Cody Corbin, for alleged child abuse. On May 14, deputies went to Smith’s residence in …
A South Dakota couple allegedly abused their children for years, giving them drugs, punching them, and in some cases shocking them with a cattle prod, the Argus Leader reports. Lance Long, 36, and Crystallynn Long, 40, face numerous criminal charges, including distribution of marijuana to a minor, distributing a controlled substance to a minor, abuse or cruelty …
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An Alabama man and woman were arrested late last month and charged with sexual abusing a young boy, the Cullman County Sheriff’s Office said. Amy Nicole Lovell, 29, and Justin Anthony Jeffries, 26, have been charged with aggravated child abuse, sexual torture, sexual abuse of a child under the age of 12, and assault. Jeffries …
A Memphis man has been jailed on murder and child abuse charges after a toddler in his care was rushed to the hospital in critical condition and later died. Staff at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital contacted Memphis police on Thursday about the 23-month-old girl after Victor Williams, the mother’s boyfriend, said he found the child …
Remains discovered by authorities Saturday may have been the adopted son of a Tennesee couple who allegedly buried another adopted child in their backyard. Citing a warrant, WATE reported that the unidentified remains were discovered on a Knox County property where Michael Gray, Sr., 63, Shirley Gray, 60, their five adopted children, and their adult …
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The boyfriend of deceased Tennessee toddler Evelyn Boswell’s grandmother is behind bars again. According to CBS Knoxville, William McCloud was arrested Sunday and charged with child abuse and neglect, domestic assault and protection order violation. Court documents indicate that McCloud went to an ex-girlfriend’s house on Saturday for dinner. The woman said he appeared to be on …
A mother has been charged with murder and a stepfather with endangering children after a 7-year-old Ohio boy died at his home, ABC 6 reports. Columbus police officers responded to a call about a drowned child at about 8 p.m. Saturday night, the station said, and found Fabian Maldonado-Cortez unresponsive. He was taken to Nationwide …
Authorities in Pennsylvania have accused a man of raping the mother of his children and teaching his 3-year-old daughter how to smoke marijuana. According to WTHM, Mount Holly police got involved after Children and Youth Services forwarded them a complaint, filed Monday, from a woman claiming she was raped by someone in her household and …
Georgia police are looking for a 28-year-old man they believe left a loaded weapon within reach of a 6-year-old child, who picked up the gun to play with it and accidentally shot a 4-year-old sibling in the face. The little girl is reported to be in critical but stable condition after she was transported from …
