A former North Carolina pastor who admitted to sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl has been sentenced to just 30 days in jail as punishment for the crime. Eric Dave Jones, 49, pleaded guilty this week in Haywood County Superior Court to a charge of indecent liberties with a child, the Citizen-Times reports. While the felony charge …
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 DuPage County judge ordered an Illinois stepmother who spiked a toddler’s sippy cup with nail polish to spend the next 10 years behind bars. As CrimeOnline previously reported, Andrea Vazquez-Hernandez, 37, tried to poison her 17-month-old step-daughter with nail polish on Sunday evening in May 2016. Vazquez-Hernandez called 911 and claimed the little girl accidentally got into the polish, …
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 Farmington Hills, Michigan, teacher has been accused of assaulting a sixth-grader who sat for the Pledge of Allegiance, as reported by ClickOnDetroit. Stone Chaney was in his first week at East Middle School when the alleged incident occurred. The Detroit Free Press reports that Chaney said that one teacher “violently” yanked him out of his chair Thursday …
By JIM SALTER, Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — A white former police officer was acquitted Friday in the 2011 death of a black man who was fatally shot following a high-speed chase, and hundreds of demonstrators streamed into the streets of downtown St. Louis to protest the verdict that had stirred fears of civil unrest …
The driver had the full support of local police to donate plywood to distressed residents
Her husband thought she was having sex with another man. Alas, she was alone.
On Thursday, the NYPD released body-cam footage showing a man being shot and killed during a standoff in his Bronx apartment. DNAinfo reports that Miguel Richards, 31, is the man seen in the footage holding a knife and toy gun in the corner of a room on September 6. A landlord reportedly called police after not hearing from the …
Prosecutors say the girl was held captive as a sex slave
Today’s parents are no longer satisfied with being told that “everything is being done” to keep their children safe at school. Today’s parents want to know precisely what that “something” is. The following are the top five school safety questions every parent should have answered: 1. When was the last safety and security assessment conducted? Who …
The pregnant Maryland teacher shot dead and left in a shallow grave had tried to talk to another woman with whom her boyfriend was also engaged to marry, according to police. Investigators lured the boyfriend, Tyler Tessier, into speaking at a news conference while Wallen was still missing with the hope that his demeanor and …
