A Kentucky mother is facing criminal charges for allegedly getting her 14-year-old daughter extremely intoxicated to teach her about the dangers of drinking alcohol. According to WKYT, Miranda Polston, 34, caught her teen daughter drinking alcohol on March 10 and decided to film her punishment. Somerset police said the video shows the girl being held in a …
The 12-year-old boy feared dead in an SUV crash that killed his parents and siblings reportedly begged neighbors to give him food because his parents were withholding it as a form of punishment. Devonte Hart and two of his sisters remain missing after the bodies of his parents, Sarah and Jen, both 38; and siblings Markis, …
An heir to the Anheuser-Busch beer company has been accused of physically assaulting his son’s sixth-grade classmate in Missouri. Billy Busch, 58, allegedly made the boy’s nose bleed, dragged him by his shirt and then held him against a wall before other adults stepped in, the Riverfront Times reports, citing police documents. Busch faces an assault …
A Texas jury this week found a woman guilty of felony injury to a child causing serious bodily injury in connection with her role in the 2015 death by starvation of a Dallas toddler. According to Fox News, Aracely Meza, 52, led 2-year-old Benjamin Aparicio’s parents to believe their son was possessed by a demon. …
A Raleigh, North Carolina, mother is behind bars after a now-viral video apparently caught her giving a marijuana joint to her infant daughter. Brianna Ashanti Loftin, 20, was officially charged Wednesday in connection with two December 2017 Facebook videos that allegedly showed her giving her 1-year-old daughter a brown cigarette or cigar. According to the News …
A Mason, Ohio, chiropractor repeatedly abused his 3-month-old daughter because he wanted a son, authorities say. Per WLWT, the mother took the infant girl to the hospital in February for a traumatic brain injury and multiple rib fractures that were in different stages of healing. “The child had over 28 rib fractures of varying ages, …
A Tennessee couple was arrested early Wednesday in Kentucky after officers allegedly found their 6-month-old twins soaked in urine and sitting in the backseat of a cluttered car. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, police responded to the Speedway in Versailles following reports that a couple was parked at a gas pump for several hours. There, officers …
Expressing concern for her safety, the 4-year-old’s father reportedly sought custody of his daughter months before her murder
A convicted sex offender is accused of beating a 5-year-old boy in his Dunkirk, Indiana, home 10 days after being released from custody. The Star Press reported that Anthony Orr, 25, was charged Friday in connection with a February 22 incident involving the child. The Department of Child Services got involved after the victim’s mother told authorities that …
A Florida man allegedly threw his infant son out of a car because he would not stop crying, causing the child to land on his head, the Sun News reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Jacob Lowman, 22, of Conway, Florida, with unlawful neglect of a child. The baby’s mother, Juliana Biggerstaff, 20, also faces the same …
A California school bus driver faces criminal charges stemming from accusations that he maintained inappropriate relationships with multiple students over the past decade. According to KSBW, 58-year-old Bill Harvey is expected to be charged with counts including rape, kidnapping and stalking. He had been employed by the Salinas Union High School District, Monterey County’s largest, …
Texas authorities have discovered thousands of videos of sex abuse against kids, including some that depict torture, in what a sheriff says is the “worst case” of child pornography he has ever seen, KPRC-TV reports. Police in Coldspring, Texas, found more than 3,000 disturbing videos in a trailer home involving children between 5 and 12 …
