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 …
A Lubbock man has been charged with murder after he stuffed a 10-month-old baby girl into a backpack and left her in his car all day, according to Everything Lubbock. Trevor Rowe, 27, was dating Marion Jester-Montoya’s mother and took the little girl with him on Tuesday when he went to his job. Investigators said …
A Tennessee father has been charged with first degree murder and aggravated child abuse following the death of his 5-week-old son on Saturday. Gavin Clark, 21, was home in Manchester with the newborn that day while his mother was at work, according to News Channel 5. When she returned home, she felt something was wrong …
In addition to being abused with spatulas and Tasers, authorities believe Takoda Collins was forced to eat his own feces
A Virginia man severely beat a relative visiting for the holidays early Sunday when he found the man nude from the waist down in his young children’s bedroom, the Spotsylvania County Sheriff’s Office said. Spotsylvania County deputies arrested Mark Stanley, a 60-year-old visiting from North Carolina, charging him with two counts of taking indecent liberties …
An assistant police chief in Oklahoma was charged last week with sexually abusing two young children repeatedly since September after one of the children reportedly called 911 to report it. The Muskogee Phoenix reported that David Ray Kash, 49, confessed during interviews after his December 19 arrest. He was assistant chief for the police department …
Tiffany Alberts, who was convicted in September of injecting feces into her then-15-year-old son’s IV bag while he was undergoing treatment for leukemia, was sentenced this week to seven years in prison with five more years probation. The Indianapolis Star reported that Alberts was acquitted on an attempted murder charge at her trial but was …
An Alabama teenager is suing his adoptive parents after they pleaded guilty earlier this month to holding him captive and starving him, WBRC reported. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Richard and Cynthia Kelly were arrested in 2017 on felony child abuse charges. Prosecutors said they kept their 14-year-old charge locked in the basement 23 hours a …
Georgia police have arrested the fiance of a foster mother charged in October with murder in the deaths of 3-year-old twins in her care, jailing him on the same counts, WSAV reported. Sam Edwards was arrested on December 19 on two counts each of second degree murder and second degree cruelty to children in the …
A South Carolina man has been charged with murder by child abuse following the death of his 14-month-old son, the Greenville News reported. Little Kingston Clark was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries on Saturday after his father, Ashton Robert Clark, allegedly smashed his head into a wall and slammed his body into furniture, …
