A North Carolina couple was arrested this week intentional child abuse causing serious bodily injury after their 2-year-old child was found severely malnourished with multiple fractures and brain injuries. Jade Newman, 21, and Delane Bostic, 25, made their first court appearance in Fayetteville on Friday and were ordered held on $250,000 bond each, ABC 11 …
Texas police arrested the mother of a girl who was found dead inside her home on Friday, hours after she posted a joke on Facebook about killing a spouse. Authorities in Bay City, Texas, were asked to perform a welfare check around 2:30 p.m. Friday at the apartment of 26-year-old Lauren Kay Dean, KTRK-TV reports. Inside, officers …
A 1-year-old Alabama toddler is “barely clinging to life,” according to police, after his mother and stepfather allegedly beat and starved him. Al.com reports that the boy’s mother, Maria Francisco Huang, 27, was arrested Monday. The boy’s stepfather, Jose Morales-Calvo, 28, was arrested Tuesday. Both are facing Class A felony charges of aggravated child abuse. …
Alabama family members accused of locking up their five children in metal cages are the focus of a new true crime episode of Dr. Oz, with CrimeOnline’s Nancy Grace joining in. As CrimeOnline previously reported, three people were arrested in January after deputies conducting a welfare check at a home in eastern Alabama. Authorities found …
Singer Nicki Minaj’s brother Jelani Maraj was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison on Monday for raping his 11-year-old stepdaughter, the New York Post reported. Maraj was convicted on charges of predatory sexual assault against a child and endangering the welfare of a child in November 2017, two years after his arrest, as …
Police said the teen is doing ‘really well’ in foster care
The Department of Children and Families (DCF) were allegedly involved with a 2-year-old Massachusetts girl who died on New Year’s Eve — weeks after her mother had regained custody of her. Shaniqua Leonard, 29, was charged with reckless endangerment following the death of her daughter, Lyric Farrell, who was rushed to the hospital on December …
A 51-year-old Idaho man was arrested this week and charged with felony lewd conduct with a child and felony sexual exploitation of a child after two children — a 13-year-old boy and a 10-year-old girl — said he’d sexually abused them for years. Richard Dutton reportedly admitted to sexually abusing the boy, saying that it …
A Montana man was charged with breaking his three-month-old baby girl’s arm, the Bozeman Chronicle reported. Trevor Jackson Hale, 20, was charged with felony assault on a minor and ordered held on $15,000 bond. The Chronicle said that Belgrade Police Department said it responded to call from Bozeman Health Urgent Care about an infant with …
Three people were arrested this week after deputies conducting a welfare check at a home in eastern Alabama found wooden cages and “evidence that the children had been locked in the cages on multiple occasions,” according to the Lee County Sheriff’s Office. Five children lived in the home in Smiths Station, a rural community not …
The mother of a Florida teen who recorded her father’s alleged abuse has filed a petition against the man and re-opened a custody battle that has been ongoing for years. The Destin Log reports that Allison Tringas filed Petition for Injunction Against Domestic Violence on January 2, a week after her 14-year-old daughter brought police …
A Florida teen said no one believed her when she said her dad was abusing her and her pet dog. She proved herself after installing security cameras and catching her alleged abuser in the act. The Walton Sun reports that 47-year-old Damon Becnel was arrested January 2 on child abuse and animal cruelty charges after …
