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, …
A Colorado man has been charged with killing a 9-year-old girl with chloroform while raping her, the Grand Junction Sentinel reported on Friday. Jeffrey Beagley, 34, was arrested on December 13 and charged with first-degree murder, child abuse resulting in death, reckless manslaughter, attempted sex assault on a child by a person in a position …
A vegan couple in Florida were formally charged this week with first degree murder charges in the death of their 18-month-old son, who died of extreme malnutrition in September, weighing only 17 pounds. Ryan Patrick O’Leary, 30, and Sheila O’Leary, 35, were also indicted in Lee county for aggravated child abuse, aggravated manslaughter, child abuse, …
A Canadian mother has been charged with assault after a video surfaced on Tuesday reportedly showing her slap, bite, and roughly handle her 14-month-old son while she played Fortnite. Calgary police announced in a Facebook post on Wednesday that they arrested a 31-year-old woman after receiving multiple reports about her abusing a child while live-streaming …
A mother testified in court on Monday that she abused and beat her son years before she met the man now accused of beating the 6-year-old to death in 2016, the New York Post reported. Geraldine Perkins, 29, accepted a plea deal for two to six years in prison for manslaughter in exchange for her …
A 5-year-old child abandoned at home in a remote Alaska village carried an 18-month-old through 31 below zero temperatures to a neighbor’s home earlier this month after the power went out, Alaska State Troopers said in a statement on Friday. State troopers had to charter an aircraft to fly to Venetie from Fairbanks, 155 miles …
“She told him to get off and told him she loved him.”
A Washington stepfather is facing assault charges after allegedly knocking his 13-year old stepdaughter unconscious with chloroform and acetone. The Courier-Herald reports Allen W. Bittner was charged with second-degree assault after his 13-year-old stepdaughter was found unconscious in her bedroom on October 12. The girl’s mother contacted 911 after she found the girl unresponsive at …
California police arrested a 47-year-old mother on Monday, charging her with child endangerment for tying her toddler son’s hands and putting a plastic bag over his head before their home caught fire Sunday evening, the Ventura County Star reported. Santa Paula police said the cause of the fire was still under investigation, and that the …
Prosecutors, who also accused Nina Singleton of slamming the 2-month-old onto a floor, said the girl is unlikely to survive
