On Wednesday, a New York federal court sentenced R. Kelly to 30 years in prison for operating a sex trafficking ring that victimized young women and girls. The New York Times reported that Judge Ann M. Donnelly handed down the sentence after Kelly’s lawyer begged for leniency, claiming the singer was a child sex assault …
A California mother is facing decades in prison after she admitted to killing her two young children, according to prosecutors. Madera County District Attorney Sally Moreno said Briseida G. Sran pleaded guilty Monday to murder, child abuse and mutilation, in connection with the deaths of her children, 4-month-old Divina Sran and Thaddeus Sran, 2. Briseida’s …
On Tuesday, a New York federal court sentenced British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell to 20 years in prison for procuring underage girls for late billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein. The New York Times reported that Judge Alison Nathan handed down the sentence, saying Maxwell “worked with Epstein to select young victims who were vulnerable” and facilitated the abuse. …
A New Hampshire state prosecutor and attorneys for Adam Montgomery appeared in court Tuesday in Manchester to discuss upcoming trial dates. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Adam Montgomery, the father of missing Harmony Montgomery, was charged with assault in January in connection with a 2019 incident, when he allegedly struck his daughter. At the time, he …
Convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell was put on suicide watch Friday ahead of her sentencing, scheduled for Tuesday morning. The former confidante of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney wrote to the court on Saturday complaining that her client was forced to wear a “suicide smock” and had been removed from the general population. Bobbie Sternheim …
The former wife of Justin Ross Harris, a Georgia man whose murder conviction was overturned this week, says she never believed he purposely killed their son in the first place. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice David E. Nahmias reversed Harris’ convictions of malice murder and first-degree child cruelty on Wednesday, following a …
A jury on Thursday convicted an Idaho couple charged with starving a 7-year-old girl into cardiac arrest. Byron Buthman, 57, and Gwendalyn Buthman, 45, were found guilty of felony injury to a child, a felony enhancement for infliction of great bodily injury, and misdemeanor injury to a child, according to KTVB. The Buthmans were arrested …
During a procedural hearing in an Ohio court on Thursday, a father attacked the man accused of tossing his son into the Ohio River and stabbing the boy’s mother to death. Desean Brown has been charged with murder in the deaths of 29-year-old Nyteisha Lattimore and her 3-year-old son Nylo, whose body was never found, …
Prosecutors have asked a Manhattan federal judge to send Jeffrey Epstein gal pal Ghislaine Maxwell to prison for at least 30 years. Maxwell, 60, was found guilty on five of six counts of sex trafficking and perjury last December, charges that alleged she helped Epstein groom and abuse at least four girls between 1994 and …
The Georgia Supreme Court reversed two convictions Wednesday against Justin Ross Harris, a Cobb County man serving a life sentence for killing his toddler son, Cooper, after leaving him inside a hot SUV for hours. According to Fox 5, Georgia Supreme Court Chief Justice David E. Nahmias reversed Harris’ convictions of malice murder and first-degree …
