The father of a 4-year-old Ohio girl who was killed last year by her mother and her mother’s boyfriend has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the county’s Department of Children and Families, accusing the agency of ignoring evidence of abuse before his daughter’s murder. According to WJW, Mickhal Garrett filed the lawsuit against the Cuyahoga County …
Authorities in Illinois say officers responded to the residence of one of their own recently in response to a report of a battered child. According to WMAQ, 55-year-old Wayman Vela — a Round Lake Park police officer — was arrested by deputies from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office following an incident reported on Friday. The …
A Texas mother is accused of physically and mentally torturing her sons, including denying them food and whipping them with cables, KPRC-TV reports. Prosecutors have charged 53-year-old Annette Bogany with two counts of injury to a child as well as two counts of causing serious mental injury to a child. Houston police rescued the children, who …
Authorities in Florida say a 47-year-old band director at a school in Orange County was arrested on suspicion of having sex with a juvenile boy in an act they say was caught on video. According to the Orlando Sentinel, Christopher Michael Blackmer was arrested in connection with a video reportedly recorded in 2014 showing him …
Authorities said a California man fatally beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter with Down syndrome after she interrupted him while in his care. According to an alert issued by the San Bernardino County Sheriff-Coroner Department, Adam Hughes, 24, was watching his girlfriend’s children, including Kylee Willis, on the evening of March 26 when he became angry at …
An Ohio father was sentenced to prison Wednesday for beating his 2-month-old sons to the point that both boys suffered multiple broken bones. The Toledo Blade reports that Jordan Kisabeth, 28, was sentenced to six years in prison for two counts of child endangerment. Kisabeth was criminally charged for the August 2018 beating which left …
Authorities in Virginia are investigating the death of a 5-month-old boy who was reportedly found unresponsive late last month. WRIC reported that police found the infant, only identified as Austin, at a home off of the 1900 block of Old Tavern Road in Powhatan on March 27. A relative told the news station that CPR was performed …
Authorities in California confirmed last week that a priest was behind bars awaiting arraignment on 30 criminal counts of child sex abuse. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, 42-year-old Hector David Mendoza-Vela was arrested on Thursday on suspicion of crimes that spanned more than a year and involved a victim who was 14 at the …
An Arizona mother is facing criminal charges after troopers reportedly found her two young children showed signs of abuse and neglect during a traffic stop earlier this month. Troopers reportedly pulled over Samantha Jo Jones, 34, in Phoenix on March 15 for driving on a suspended license. Police officials said she was with her two children, …
Authorities in North Carolina say a 22-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of purposely ramming into a vehicle occupied by her two young children and their father. According to KTLA, Kendra Kerry Boyd was embroiled in a bitter custody dispute with 21-year-old Philip Clapp, who was driving the vehicle she allegedly hit with her own …
A 17-year-old Florida teen was arrested after one her twin babies was rushed to the hospital with severe injuries on Wednesday. ABC Action News reports that the infant arrived at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital in St. Petersburg on Wednesday evening with a skull fracture and a brain hemorrhage. Doctors reportedly said the baby boy’s …
An Illinois couple is facing criminal charges for the beating death of the woman’s 2-year-old son—which reportedly occurred two days after a caseworker visited the home amid neglect and abuse allegations. According to the Chicago Tribune, the contracted Illinois Department of Children and Family Services caseworker found that Ja’hir Gibbons and his 5-year-old brother were safe …
