Nevada police have arrested three men and a woman in Pahrump, charging them with 137 counts of child abuse, sexual assault, and pornography between them, the Nye County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said it began its investigation on January 17, but did not say what prompted the investigation, nor did it say when …
A Texas mother and her boyfriend have been charged with capital murder in the death of her 3-year-old son, who was brought to a hospital Tuesday with severe bruising over most of his body and an internal body temperature of only 81 degrees, KCBD reported. Because of the severity of his injuries, Elijah Lebario was …
A Virginia woman who fatally beat her 11-year-old daughter so severely that it split her stomach open was sentenced to 30 years in prison this week. Latoya Smith, 35, pleaded guilty to felony homicide and child abuse or neglect in the May 2018 slaying of Heaven Watkins. WVEC reported that she was sentenced on Friday …
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 …
