A Hooks, Texas, couple allegedly locked a 7-year-old boy out of the family home last month and told him to never return. Now they face child endangerment charges. Texarkana Gazette reports that Ronald “Keith” Wright, 56, and Rendy Jo Wright, 39, allegedly kicked a 7-year-old boy out of their Hooks home, off of 400 block of County Road …
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A Phelps, New York, mother with prior convictions for animal cruelty is now accused of keeping her child in a feces-filled home with numerous animals. According to the Finger Lakes Times, Renee K. Mobley, 33, was arrested after authorities found that her home was covered in animal feces, urine, garbage, and raw sewage. The Humane Society …
A Pennsylvania mother was convicted Friday of trying to kill her two young children in a failed murder-suicide attempt, The Citizens’ Voice reports. Melissa Scholl, 34, was found guilty of two counts of attempted murder after prosecutors alleged she strapped the kids in her vehicle and then connected a garden hose from the exhaust pipe …
A Missouri mother who arrived at her 1-year-old son’s day care Monday afternoon allegedly realized that she forgot to drop him off that morning. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that daycare officials and police concluded that Tate Mitchell sat in the hot van for hours on Monday. Though Mitchell’s mother arrived at Casa dia Montessori School at around …
A 10-year-old Ohio boy passed away on Sunday, following a fiery car crash in August that left him critically injured while his father fled the scene. WCPO reports that the little boy, Ariyonte “Tay-Tay” Grace Holloway, passed away at the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital after his father, Adriel Holloway, 27, crashed his vehicle in Walnut Hills while his …
Police have arrested a Texas grandmother and accused her of leaving her 2-year-old grandson in a hot van for nearly 25 minutes. KVUE reports that Leia Lanette Payne, 54 left the toddler in the van on Tuesday while she went into a Ross Department Store. An arrest report alleges that a passerby discovered the child screaming and crying …
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A Davenport, Iowa, woman who left her newborn baby in a hospital trash can last year was sentenced to probation on Friday. The Iowa City Press-Citizen reports that Judge Marsha Bergan suspended a prison sentence and handed five years’ probation to Ashley Hautzenrader, 24. Hautzenrader gave birth to a baby boy in a University of Iowa Hospital …
Police arrested a Canadian babysitter and charged her with abandoning a 1-year-old in a burning apartment building early Thursday morning. The babysitter, 49-year-old Josée Milot, faces charges of arson by negligence, failure to provide the necessaries of life and child abandonment in connection with the incident, CBC News reports. Milot has a criminal record, including …
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 …
A 20-year-old New Jersey man allegedly beat his girlfriend’s 4-year-old daughter to death because she wouldn’t eat dinner, NJ.com reports. Prosecutors on Thursday charged Najuquan Ross with murder in connection with the July death of the girl, Natalise “Kayla” Gunter. The girl’s mother, Lucy Gunter, told investigators that she had returned from work when she …
