An Australian woman whose mother arranged for her to be raped has urged a court to extend her mother’s sentence as her release date approaches. Peta Butler was 16 when an overweight man with bulging eyes raped her in a Toowoomba hotel room. Butler’s mother, Therese, not only organized the rape but sat outside smoking a cigarette while …
Authorities found the bodies of Sarah and Jennifer Hart and three of their adopted children, Markis, Jeremiah and Abigail. Three other children, Hannah, Sierra and Devote, are still missing.
The women found dead with three of their six adopted children took in a foster child before they adopted two sets of siblings. And former friends who knew them at the time Sarah and Jennifer Hart fostered a teenage girl have recollections of the couple that diverge from the image of the family shaped by …
A friend of Sarah Hart’s said she got an alarming text message from Sarah in the early hours of the morning after CPS visited the Hart home in Woodland, Washington. According to The Oregonian, Cheryl Hart, who is no relation to the family, called Clark County emergency dispatch on Monday, March 26, the same day …
A family of four is missing in California, and their car may have gone into a river in the same area where the Hart family drove over a cliff two weeks ago. The Press Democrat reports that witnesses saw a Honda Pilot SUV pull into a turnout on Highway 101 before going over a riverbank …
“My son-in-law doesn’t want to get involved, but the more I sit on it, I just can’t live with it.”
Authorities have released a 911 call made to police by a Child Protective Services worker about the Hart family — the same day Jennifer Hart is believed to have driven her SUV over a cliff in Northern California, killing at least five Hart family members in an apparent murder-suicide. KPTV obtained audio of the 911 …
Three years before Sarah Hart pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic assault, one of her and Jennifer Hart’s adopted children reported alleged abuse to the police. According to the San Antonio Express-News, that report was likely made when three children the Harts would later adopt from Texas were in their Minnesota home for a trial period. …
A Tempe, Arizona, mother was jailed Thursday after her two-year-old daughter allegedly ate macaroni and cheese made with THC butter. Per Arizona’s Family, Alaina Marie Limpert, 25, was arrested after someone in her household contacted Department of Child Safety about the child ingesting the laced mac and cheese while eating with her father on April 4. Limpert is …
The women found dead with three of their adopted children in an apparent murder-suicide last month appear to have misrepresented key aspects of their circumstances in order to promote an image of an idyllic, harmonious family life that may have been a cover for abuse and neglect. And according to a new report, signs of …
The teen mother and her boyfriend allegedly forced the child to stay in a push-up position for an extended period of time, and beat him because he dropped a knee
An upstate New York mother is accused of decapitating her 7-year-old son with a kitchen knife earlier this week, the Watertown Daily Times reports. Hanane Mouhib, 36, has been charged with second-degree murder in connection with the slaying of her son, Abraham Cardenas. Authorities on Thursday night responded to a 911 call reporting that Mouhib …
