A California school bus driver is facing criminal charges after surveillance cameras allegedly caught her abusing an 8-year-old girl with autism and mocking her for crying. According to KOVR, Kim Klopson, 64, was dropping off students at Browns Valley Elementary in February when the special-needs students on board got off the bus. It’s then when Klopson is reportedly …
The woman killed with her four children and her parents in an apparent murder-suicide in Australia last week had written a poem about domestic violence four years ago that suggested she may have been a victim. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Katrina Miles, 35, was shot and killed last Friday on a remote farmstead in Australia …
“It literally breaks your heart, and you’re outraged by how a parent or anyone could commit those acts”
Authorities in Texas have arrested two men believed to have been involved in the horrific abuse of a teen runaway beginning last year. According to the San Antonio Express News, 28-year-old Ray Hernandez Jr. allegedly met the 15-year-old girl online and had soon begun prostituting her to his friends and other men. He was arrested …
After a toddler boy in Wichita, Kansas, died on Sunday, an attorney for the boy’s grandparents filed a lawsuit against the Sedgwick County Department of Children and Families, claiming the agency knew the boy was being abused at home but failed to save him. The Wichita Eagle reports that 2-year-old Anthony “Tony” Bunn died from blunt …
A Missouri mother who admitted to letting her blind and autistic son die in a field could spend as little as 120 days behind bars. According to the Springfield News-Leader, Kimberly Lightwine, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter and elder abuse in connection with the 2016 death of her son, Austin Anderson, 19. Prior to …
Prosecutors in Pennsylvania are pursuing a slew of criminal charges against a priest accused of sexually assaulting two boys. According to the Philly Voice, 64-year-old Rev. David Poulson was arrested earlier this week and is expected to face counts including indecent assault, endangering the welfare of children and corruption of minors. The charges were announced …
Prosecutors announced Thursday that they’re not filing criminal charges in the case of a 1-year-old boy who was reportedly seriously injured at an Indiana daycare late last month. A spokesperson for the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed to WCPO that no charges will be filed for an incident involving Jesse Harris IV, who reportedly returned home from Kiddie Garden …
An Ohio father is accused of hogtying his 13-year-old daughter with zip ties and dragging her across a parking lot—all to stop her from running away. John L. Hofacker was arrested Friday afternoon after his teen daughter was reportedly spotted outside New London Lanes bowling alley screaming for help. According to WJW, responding officers approached the …
The father of a missing Kansas boy was arrested in Wichita for child battery in an unrelated case on Wednesday. The Wichita Eagle reports that Jonathan Hernandez, father of missing 5-year-old Lucas Hernandez, is facing battery charges after he reportedly hit his girlfriend’s 6-year-old son on February 5, a few weeks before his own son …
Two Wichita, Kansas, staff members lost their jobs on Tuesday after the Kansas Department for Children and Families fired them while making a “number of personnel changes.” The Wichita Eagle reports that the Wichita DCF has been under extreme scrutiny after several children allegedly died at the hands of abusive parents or disappeared, even though …
A Pennsylvania couple who reportedly starved their three young children to the point they ate paint off the walls was sentenced to prison Monday. PennLive.com reported that Joshua Weyant, 35, was sentenced to 19 to 39 years in state prison while wife Brandi, 39, was sentenced to 18 to 37 years behind bars. The pair had pleaded guilty to …
