Authorities arrested a New Jersey couple after their 2-year-old daughter was airlifted to a hospital for brain bleeding, burns and bone fractures — injuries one doctor said came from abuse equivalent to “torture.” Police on Friday detained Yolanda Torres, 33, and Jose Velez, 52, of Galloway, New Jersey, the Star-Ledger reports. Authorities believe that Torres …
‘Police officers observed fleas jumping out of the minor’s hair’
‘It doesn’t get much worse than this’
It’s been called the “worst case of child abuse in recent memory” by New York police. A little girl was brutally beaten and tortured, reportedly by the hands of her own mother’s boyfriend and friends, while “mom” did nothing to stop the abuse. A neighbor recently opened up and described how she helped the child …
A Hainesport, New Jersey, woman accused of throwing a girl onto the tracks of an oncoming train is set to stand trial. According to the Courier-Post, Autumn Matacchiera, 20, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to attempted murder charges stemming from the January 27 incident. Burlington police said Matacchiera threw the 5-year-old onto the tracks after a NJ Transit bus driver …
The amusement company let him come back to work the next day
Police this week arrested an Arizona couple for allegedly pressuring their 15-year-old babysitter to have sex with them, the Arizona Republic reports. Jefferey Swartz, 27, and his wife, Samantha Ohlman, 23, met the girl through her brother, authorities have indicated. The husband and wife had asked the victim to babysit their kids after she and …
The family of a little boy who was horrifically abused by his father and stepmother for years before he was starved to death has sued child protective agencies in two states for failing to properly respond to evidence of abuse. Adrian Jones was 7 when he died while confined to a shower stall in his …
A 10-year-old New York girl was allegedly beaten and tortured at the hands of her mother and three other adults in what one police official called the worst case of child abuse in recent memory. Authorities in Oswego County, New York, have arrested four people in connection with the abuse. Police became aware of the …
GRANTS, N.M. (AP) — The leader of a New Mexico paramilitary religious sect rocked by child sexual abuse allegations says “hundreds of kids” have safely passed through the group’s compound in New Mexico. But James Green told the KOB-TV in Albuquerque on Thursday that the Aggressive Christianity Missions Training Corps teaches children living at a …
