ArticlesCategory :: Child Abuse & NeglectBy Yahoo News 8/18/2010 "America's latest folk-hero flight attendant may be the one on a Southwest Airlines jet who took a 13-month-old baby from her mother after the woman slapped the crying child for kicking her." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_flight_attendant_baby By BBC News 8/7/2010 "Parents who smoke in cars in front of small children are "committing a form of child abuse", a leading GP has said." Read the entire article: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-10896335 By CNN.com 7/28/2010 "A teenage girl "averted a tragedy" by calling 911 from inside a wildly weaving car to report her mother, who ended up being charged with drunken driving, New York State Police said." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/07/28/new.york.teen.911.mom/index.html?eref=mrss_igoogle_cnn By DadsDivorce.com "...Suddenly she is threatening to take me back to court for full custody and to have child support initiated. Can you tell me what legal grounds she may have and what I may encounter?..." Read the entire article: http://www.dadsdivorce.com/articles/what-is-the-burden-of-proof-needed-for-a-modification.html By KTLA.com 6/16/2010 "22-year old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drowning her 2-year-old son in a bathtub at their Riverside County home." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-norco-toddler-drowns,0,5388150.story By Robert Franklin, Esq. -- Ifeminists.com 6/6/2010 "...It holds that a father with joint legal custody but with no physical custody (i.e. visitation rights) of his child has a right to be informed by state officials such as the police and child welfare workers when his child may be suffering abuse. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ifeminists.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.745 By KTLA.com 5/27/2010 "A 2-year-old girl is dead after she was left inside a car for close to 7 hours Wednesday." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-forgotten-tot-dies,0,2021584.story By Delaware News 6/2/2010 "...The flip side is children who live without biological fathers or father figures are at least two to three times more likely to be poor; use drugs; experience educational, health, emotional; and behavioral problems; be victims of child abuse; engage in greater and earlier sexual activity; and engage in criminal behavior. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.snponline.com/articles/2010/06/02/multiple_papers/opinion/columnists/allgravesc_20100524_0251pm_3.txt By KTLA.com 6/4/2010 "A 27-year-old Riverside County mother has been convicted of murder for beating her 21-month-old son to death." "...Prosecutors argued Cedillo did not like her son because the toddler favored his father. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-indio-mom-convicted,0,4125652.story By KTLA.com 5/20/2010 "A Victorville mother is under arrest, accused of starving her five year old son to death. The boy suffered from cerebral palsy." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mother-starves-boy,0,4451030.story By KTLA.com 5/18/2010 "A Missouri mom will spend the next 58 years in jail after pleading guilty to videotaping her 16-year-old daughter having sex with the mom's 35-year-old boyfriend." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-tapes-teen-sex,0,7240268.story By KTLA.com 5/19/2010 "A woman is fighting for custody of her daughter one year after the child was found by a bus driver sitting in the middle of a busy street." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-texas-bus-baby,0,7819608.story By Yahoo News 5/14/2010 "An unhappy mother hurled her toddler daughter into the chilly Hudson River and then jumped in herself in an apparent murder-suicide attempt intended to spite her husband, prosecutors said Friday." Read the entire article: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100514/world/us_river_rescue By ABC News 5/14/2010 (Video) "The Texas teacher who was fired for allegedly slapping and kicking a 13-year-old student apologized for the incident Friday and the pain it caused." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/houston-teacher-sherri-davis-apologized-videotaped-beating-student/story?id=10649665 By KTLA.com 5/10/2010 " A Fresno woman accused of repeatedly stabbing her 3-year-old son and throwing him down a flight of cement stairs has pleaded not guilty to attempted murder charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-fresno-toddler-stabbed,0,7411737.story By KTLA.com 4/29/2010 "...The boy's mother Andreia Huffman, 37, and a man in the home, Jason Dunikowski, 32, were arrested for domestic violence and endangering children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-boy-tied-to-table,0,2289360.story By KTLA.com 4/26/2010 "The grandmother of a 6-year-old boy whose body was found near a North Texas lake last week has been arrested on a murder charge." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-wiley-angel,0,3516068.story By Palm Beach Post - Florida 4/26/2010 "...Cheryl Arthur, 39, is being held without bail on a murder charge in the death of her daughter Makeda, whose lifeless body she brought into a fire station Saturday, authorities said. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/crime/police-hollywood-mom-charged-with-killing-3-year-625416.html By Medline Plus 4/9/2010 "..."At least 85 percent of the child sexual abuse is perpetrated by relatives, or by individuals who are known -- but not related -- to the child," study lead author Esther Deblinger, co-director of the Child Abuse Research Education and Services Institute at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey -- School of Osteopathic Medicine, said in a university new release. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_97439.html By KTLA.com 4/9/2010 "Police arrested the 20-year-old mother of a newborn baby boy who was beaten and drowned in a toilet." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-newborn-murder,0,7539140.story By CDC "Child maltreatment is a significant public health problem in the United States. In 2007, approximately 772,000 children were confirmed by Child Protective Services as being abused or neglected." Read the entire article: http://www.cdc.gov/Features/HealthyChildren/ By FoxNews.com 4/8/2010 "Las Vegas police say a 36-year-old woman faces felony neglect charges after her 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old granddaughter fell from a third-floor balcony to the ground below." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/04/08/kids-fall-vegas-balcony-woman-arrested/ By KTLA.com 4/8/2010 "Two large dogs have chewed off the testicles of a 6-month-old boy strapped in a baby carrier and left alone in a Riverside County apartment." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-testicles-dogs,0,4323262.story By KTLA.com 4/1/2010 "...They say at first she told a couple of stories that did not add up before admitting she was the one who abused the little girl. "She actually got mad at the kid because the kid wouldn't stay in bed," Enid Police Sgt. Dustin Albright said. "She was following the kid back through the kitchen and pushed her with both hands and caused her to fall face-first into the kitchen tile."..." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-teen-beats-baby,0,542831.story By KTLA.com 3/25/2010 "Police in Michigan say a 45-year-old woman with a cocaine habit allowed a 67-year-old man to have sex with her 10-year old granddaughter in exchange for the drug." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-cocaine-girl,0,377264.story By KTLA.com 3/18/2010 "A day care owner under investigation in the death of a 2-year-old girl who authorities say was struck with a hammer was reportedly the subject of five child abuse complaints." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-foster-child-hammer-death,0,942095.story By FoxNews.com "Imagine getting a full salary and benefits for doing absolutely nothing. If you’re a teacher in the United States, you can – you just have to be accused of a crime. States all over the country dole out millions of taxpayer dollars every year to teachers who aren't even permitted to set foot in a classroom." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/slideshow/us/2010/02/23/teachers?slide=4 By TampaBayOnline 3/10/2010 "...A 14-year-old Tampa girl has gone well beyond that, missing 85 of 113 school days this year, and about 850 since kindergarten. Because of it, her mother, Charlotte Fair, 45, was put behind bars without bail more than a week ago. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/after-daughter-misses-half-the-school-year-lonely-mom-jailed-in-tampa/1078330 By KTLA.com 3/4/2010 "A former Redondo Union High School student has been arrested on suspicion of dumping the body of a newborn girl in a trash can." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-redondo-infant-trash,0,5982544.story By ntNews 2/24/2010 (Warning -- Disturbing Video) "...It is alleged that the footage from the Palmerston bus exchange shows a woman throwing her 10-month-old baby on the ground after her partner left on a bus without her. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2010/02/24/126761_ntnews.html Read the entire article: By ABC News 2/22/2010 "Sexual slavery involving boys as young as 10 is being condoned and in many cases protected by authorities in northern Afghanistan." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/22/2826024.htm By ABC News -- Australia 2/18/2010 "...The woman - who cannot be named - admitted to gassing her eight-year-old son and 10-year-old daughter at her Sandstone Point home in 2002. She claimed a defence of diminished responsibility due to an unsound mind. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/19/2825333.htm By Examiner.com -- Ohio 2/12/2010 "...To make matters even worse, police say that Avila-Villa committed the murder so that authorities would not discover that the father of the child is a 14-year old teennager. Avila-Villa feared that paternity would be discovered because she applied for welfare. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.examiner.com/x-30844-Cincinnati-Crime-Examiner~y2010m2d12-Woman-heads-to-court-charged-with-murdering-her-baby By WEEI SportsRadio 1/14/2010 "Gerald "Tooky" Amirault joins Dennis and Callahan to tell his amazing story" Listen to the interview: http://audio.weei.com/m/28348841/gerald-amirault.htm By MSNBC.com 2/2/2010 "A massive new federal study documents an unprecedented and dramatic decrease in incidents of serious child abuse, especially sexual abuse. Experts hailed the findings as proof that crackdowns and public awareness campaigns had made headway." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35205114/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ By FoxNews.com 2/3/2010 "The mother of a 6-year-old whose mouth was taped shut by a school secretary is suing the school system." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584679,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.236636:b30221322:z0 By FoxNews.com 1/28/2010 "Prosecutors say a 41-year-old Nebraska woman had sex nightly with her teenage son when he was in seventh and eighth grade." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,584112,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a4:g4:r1:c0.000000:b0:z5 By The Crime Report - New York 12/28/2009 "Family courts nationwide are grappling with a caseload crisis that delays decisions on critical issues for parents and children involving abuse and neglect, custody and visitation." Read the entire article: http://thecrimereport.org/2009/12/28/crisis-in-the-family-court/ By Susan Donaldson James -- ABC News 12/1/2009 "...For seven years, until Michigan child welfare workers intervened when he was 11, Milligan was too ashamed to reveal that his tormentor was his own mother. ..." Read the entire article: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mother-son-incest-rise-report-sex-abuse-agencies/story?id=9209454 By Seattlepi 12/17/2009 "Stepparents can't sue the state over claims of negligent child abuse investigation, the state Supreme Court has ruled." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_scow_stepparent_lawsuits.html By Cambridge News UK "A brutal mother who subjected six of her own children to an horrific campaign of abuse has today been jailed for six years." Read the entire article: http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/displayarticle.asp?id=469681 By FoxNews 11/9/2009 "State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user. The report says Diane Schuler's husband told police his wife "smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572912,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r3:c0.138009:b28755309:z10 By YahooNews 11/5/2009 "...Authorities said the baby's mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, gave the infant to baby sitter Susan Elizabeth Baker early Saturday, then reported her missing about 10 hours later. About 100 law enforcement agents and others spent days scouring around the baby's home in a remote, makeshift community of dirt roads, tin-roof shacks and old mobile homes. Searchers also dug through trash cans and bins. All along, the baby was under the bed. ...Officials do not believe Shannon's father, who is Baker's stepbrother, was involved in the disappearance. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091105/ap_on_re_us/us_missing_florida_baby
By CNN Justice 11/4/2009 "An Iowa jury found Thursday that a mother with a history of depression knew right from wrong when she slashed her sons' throats, killing one and leaving the other permanently scarred." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/05/iowa.michelle.kehoe.verdict/index.html?eref=rss_crime By KTLA.com 10/30/2009 "A nude woman was spotted repeatedly slamming her baby boy's head into the sidewalk, police said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-baby-bashed,0,6680156.story By WYMT - Kentucky 10/15/2009 "A flagrant child support bust leads police to something they say they won't soon forget. Police were out early Thursday morning going after more than fifty parents they say are behind on child support payments. The bust led police to a home where police say they found a woman and three children living in some of the worst conditions they say they have ever seen." Read the entire article: http://www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/64443667.html By KTLA.com 10/9/2009 "A central California mother accused of abandoning three of her newborns and leaving one to die in the back of a pickup could face more than 22 years in prison after being convicted of second-degree murder and child abuse charges." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-abandoned-babies,0,1963986.story By KTLA.com 10/7/2009 "A 19-year-old woman who went to a hospital emergency room saying she'd had a miscarriage has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and child neglect after a newborn baby was found in a cabinet in her bedroom, authorities said." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-lancaster-fake-miscarriage,0,5533132.story By FoxNews.com 10/3/2009 "Authorities say a South Florida woman got behind the wheel of her minivan and passed out drunk, leaving her two young children to wander nearly two miles away from their home barefoot." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,559640,00.html By USA Today 10/1/2009 "A mother of two is under arrest for allegedly running a pot shop from her house. Officers serving a search warrant at the home of 23-year-old Gina Marie Mule Tuesday say they found a 32-bags of marijuana concealed in a baby's crib at the home." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-pot-mother,0,4103569.story By Chicago Tribune 9/29/2009 "Two years ago, something horrible happened to Tangela Key's two sons. Her then 13-year-old son -- who she ordered to baby sit his three siblings -- beat her 8-year-old son to death because he had eaten a dessert he wasn't supposed to and picked at a scab until it bled." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/topic/orl-bk-mother-killer-092909,0,3517081.story By Washington Times 9/29/2009 "...And the Jennings case brings a lot more: A "safe schools czar" who failed to report a statutory rape? An education leader who encouraged a 15-year-old student to be comfortable with sexual abuse? A federal official who ignored a law requiring him to report even the possibility of a crime?..." Read the entire article: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/29/sex-scandal-double-standard/ By Yahoo News 9/28/2009 "A woman was arrested after her 14-year-son told authorities he escaped from a home where he'd been kept for 4 1/2 years, spending most of his time locked in a bedroom closet, police said Monday." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090928/ap_on_re_us/us_child_imprisoned By Fox News 9/17/2009 "An Arizona couple accused of sexual abuse after taking bath-time photos of their children and then trying to have them developed at Walmart is suing the state and the retail giant." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,551760,00.html By KTLA 9/14/2009 "A 35-year old mother is accused of using the internet to track down the boy she gave up for adoption and then raping him." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-mom-rape,0,3106598.story By Evan Buxbaum - CNN 8/25/2009 "A new federal report says employees at four New York state juvenile residential centers have been responsible for abuse resulting in concussions, broken bones and even one death." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/25/new.york.youth.center.abuse/index.html?eref=time_health By New Jersey Star Ledger 8/25/2009 "Child welfare workers too often overlooked family problems caused by mental illness, domestic violence, and drug and alcohol addiction before children died from abuse and neglect in 2007, according to a report issued yesterday by the New Jersey Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board." Read the entire article: http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1251165315286280.xml&coll=1 By KTLA News 8/18/2009 "A Houston-area mother convicted of mutilating her infant by cutting off his genitals two years ago was sentenced Monday to 99 years in prison. But minutes after the jury's sentence was read, Katherine Nadal, 28, yelled out that she did not hurt her son, prompting the boy's father to storm out of the courtroom." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/houston-mom-mutilates-son,0,881132.story By KTLA News 8/17/2009 "A 25-year-old woman on probation in Los Angeles for a similar crime laced her breast milk with morphine and fed it to her 2-month-old daughter in an effort to attract the attention of the child's father, authorities say." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-poison-breastmilk,0,3226535.story By KTLA News 8/14/2009 "A mother and her teenage roommate have been arrested after authorities say they found her 5-year-old son 'weak and emaciated' inside a closet." Read the entire article: http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-apple-valley-toture,0,638480.story By Darah Hansen and Rebecca TeBrake -- Vancouver Sun 8/19/2009 "Until this week, Kimberly Ruth Noyes had a reputation among those who lived near her Grand Forks home as a good neighbour." Read the entire article: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Neighbour+arrested+connection+autistic+death+Grand+Forks/1901707/story.html By KTUL - Oklahoma 7/29/2009 "The director of the Department of Human Services says cases of child abuse and neglect are down for the third consecutive year." Read the entire article: http://www.ktul.com/news/stories/0709/644667.html By Calaveras Enterprise - California 8/11/2009 "...A workshop to explore the importance of fathers to the family dynamic will be held in San Andreas Aug. 20. Sponsored by First 5 Calaveras and the Prevent Child Abuse Council Calaveras “The Power of Involved Fathers – What Mothers and Fathers Need to Know About Fatherhood” will highlight a male's role in the development and success of children. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2009/08/11/news/news03_parents.txt By Scott Sarvay -- Indiana's NewsCenter - Indiana 8/11/2009 " A Fort Wayne mother is arrested after police say her toddler shot his younger brother in the face on May 11th. 21-year-old Janice Collins is charged with two counts of "neglect of a dependent.".." Read the entire article: http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/52963732.html
By MSNBC.com 8/7/2009 "The mother of three young children who drowned after she drove into a central Arkansas lake had been drinking before the crash, authorities said Friday, the second recent case in which a mom was accused of drinking before getting behind the wheel with her kids." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32334528/ns/us_news-life/ By Herald Times 8/10/2009 "A 30-year-old Bradenton woman has been arrested on charges of sexual battery for using sex toys on children she was supervising, including one child who is two years old." Read the entire article: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20090810/BREAKING/908109975/0/SPORTS By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536941,00.html?mrp By FoxNews.com 8/4/2009 "A special education teacher saw signs that something was wrong with her 10-year-old student. ..." "..."I was concerned, but I didn't have the proof," Lori Nohner-Johnson, a special education teacher in the Hinckley-Finlayson Elementary School who taught Lakesha for three years, said Tuesday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536960,00.html?loomia_ow=t0:s0:a16:g2:r1:c0.315866:b26949366:z0 By The News Tribune -- Tacoma WA - 7/24/2009 "Jennifer Rice, the former Tacoma teacher convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 10-year-old student, was sentenced to a minimum of 25 years in prison Friday." Read the entire article: http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/crime/2009/07/24/tacoma_teacher_convicted_in_sex_crime_ca By ABC News 8/3/2009 "A southern Tasmanian woman has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of a four-year-old boy." Read the entire article: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/03/2644889.htm By Cathy Kelly -- San Jose Mercury News - California 7/31/2009 "The results of a large-scale parenting study conducted in Santa Cruz and three other California counties confirms the importance of involving fathers in parenting lessons and programs, and provides a template for doing so. The results of the study commissioned by the state Office of Child Abuse Prevention were to be released today." Read the entire article: http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_12957837?nclick_check=1 By YahooNews.com 7/29/2009 "Otty Sanchez, a schizophrenic with a history of hospitalizations, refused to take medication for her postpartum depression, her son's father said. She'd been going to regular counseling and had been briefly hospitalized since the boy was born. ..." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_baby_decapitated By The Independent.com 7/25/2009 "Clowns, magicians and puppeteers, who have spent their lives entertaining children, will have to pay to register on a new government child protection database, despite already proving they do not pose a threat. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/news/tears-of-a-clown-who-will-have-to-pay-to-entertain-children-1760696.html By MSNBC.com 7/27/2009 "A woman charged with murdering her 3 1/2-week-old son used a knife and two swords to dismember the child and ate parts of his body, including his brain, before stabbing herself in the torso and slicing her own throat, police said Monday. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32171926/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/ By New Zealand Herald 7/23/3009 "A tearful 12-year-old girl's interview about a sexual assault arranged by her father for $40 was all lies to get him in trouble, she told a court today." Read the entire article: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10586025 By Seattlepi.com 7/11/2009 " Former Vancouver police officer Clyde Ray Spencer spent nearly 20 years in prison after he was convicted of sexually molesting his son and daughter. Now, the children say it never happened." Read the entire article: http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_recanting_abuse.html By Tom McKee -- WCPO - Cincinnati, Ohio 7/14/2009 "Many leaders of Ohio's Job & Family Services Departments said Tuesday they're worried that future cuts in state funding will severely hurt their ability to serve people in need. JFS agencies handle food stamp distribution, adult and children protective services and child support enforcement." Read the entire article: http://www.wcpo.com/news/local/story/Ohio-Job-Family-Services-Directors-Fear-More/0z-46wk2F06N1eIQ9GwNIQ.cspx By FoxNews.com 7/4/2009 "Cynthia Mary Roberson is an unemployed mother who police say led her 12- and 14-year-old sons and their friends to commit at least 20 armed robberies and assaults, including the beating of a teenage boy who had nothing more than an orange lollipop. ..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,530057,00.html By Fox News.com 7/2/2009 "A convicted child molester with a knack for eluding authorities was sentenced to 155 years for sexually abusing two boys, including a prepubescent youngster whom he was living with in the U.S. Virgin Islands, officials said Thursday." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529895,00.html By FoxNews.com 6/2/2009 "A woman in Texas has been accused of repeatedly smearing human waste on her 3-year-old daughter's intravenous feeding line, potentially causing life-threatening infections. Emily Beth McDonald, 23, of Austin, was charged with felony injury to a child. She faces up to life in prison if convicted." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525042,00.html?mrp= By Archie Ingersoll -- Grand Forks Herald 6/23/2009 "In an unusual case that's received international attention, a Grand Forks mother who police say was “extremely intoxicated” while breastfeeding her 6-week-old pleaded guilty to child neglect Tuesday." Read the entire article: http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/123887 By Joshua Rhett Miller -- Fox News 6/15/2009 "A mother of four young children in Maine was charged Monday with gross sexual assault after British investigators more than 3,000 miles away used the Internet to allegedly catch her in the act of Webcasting a sexual assault of her young child. Julie M. Carr, 30, of Mars Hill, Maine, was arrested at about 11 p.m. Friday. Her four children — believed to range from 18 months to 5 years old — were taken into protective custody. The Child Exploitation Investigation Team of England's West Midlands Police said their unit received information late Thursday that a local man was using the Internet to show inappropriate material of children. An unidentified 18-year-old man was later arrested in Walsall, England." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526462,00.html By CNN.com 6/16/2009 "The man with the white hair and Southern twang seemed the consummate gentleman. Handsomely attired in a dark jacket and open-collared burgundy shirt, Troy Tidwell came to answer questions in a civil lawsuit that portrays him as a monster. Across the table sat one of his accusers, Bryant Middleton. He had finally come face to face with the man who he says has haunted his dreams for the past 50 years. He claims Tidwell beat him mercilessly with a leather strap when he was 14, when Tidwell was an administrator at a Florida reform school." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/16/florida.boys.school.lawsuit/index.html?eref=rss_crime By FoxNews.com 6/10/2009 "Attorneys and advocates are questioning why an 18-year-old East Texan with profound mental disabilities was sentenced to 100 years in prison in a child sex abuse case. They say the case of Aaron Hart was mishandled from start to finish and raises questions over how to deal with the mentally disabled when they encounter the criminal justice system. After a neighbor found Hart fondling her 6-year-old stepson in September, the East Texas teenager pleaded guilty to five counts, The Dallas Morning News reported Wednesday. Hart has an IQ of 47 and was diagnosed as mentally disabled as a child. He never learned to read or write and speaks unsteadily. Despite being a target of bullies, he was courteous, well-behaved and earned money by doing chores for neighbors, supporters said. His parents say he'd never acted out sexually. "He couldn't understand the seriousness of what he did," said his father, Robert Hart. "I never dreamed they would think about sending him to prison. When they said 100 years — it was terror, pure terror, to me."..." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525751,00.html?mrp By Bill Janis -- Opinion --Louisa Republican Committee- Virginia 6/7/2009 "...Social scientists and economists are an argumentative lot. They seldom agree about anything. But nearly all agree on one point: The decline of marriage, and of the two-parent family, is a major cause of child poverty, which, in turn, contributes to increased risks for children and greater demand for social services. The collapse of the family is a pandemic that poses a clear and present danger to all Virginians today.Approximately two-thirds of poor children live in single-parent homes. The collapse of marriage is also a major contributor to welfare dependence, crime, abuse, drugs, failure in school, and teen pregnancy. ..." Read the entire article: http://louisacountyrepublicans.blogspot.com/2009/06/bill-janis-op-ed-from-sundays-td.html By Janet DiGiacomo - CNN - 6/7/2009 "A 28-year-old Oregon woman has been charged with murder after the body of a new mother was found in the crawl space of her home. Rescue crews first went to Korena Roberts' home in Washington County on Friday in response to a call of a newborn in distress. They found Roberts' boyfriend unsuccessfully trying to revive the baby using first-aid techniques. Roberts told deputies the baby was hers, the county sheriff's office said. Medics noticed a lot of blood at the home, and sent Roberts and the baby to a hospital. "Doctors at the hospital were not able to revive the baby," said Sgt. David Thompson of the Washington County Sheriff's Office in a news release. "They also discovered that Ms. Roberts had not delivered a child at anytime in the recent past."Deputies returned to the home, where they found the body of 21-year-old Heather Snively in the crawl space under the kitchen, Thompson said. Authorities learned Snively had been pregnant at the time she was attacked, and they determined she was the mother of the infant." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/07/oregon.pregnancy.murder/index.html?eref=rss_crime
By CNN.com 6/8/2009 "A woman whose body was found in the crawl space of an Oregon home -- the mother of a newborn who also died -- died from "homicidal violence," the state's deputy medical examiner said Monday. An autopsy showed causes of 21-year-old Heather Snively's death included blunt-force trauma and "sharp-force injuries," Dr. Christopher Young said. Sharp-force injuries mean cut or stab wounds. Young said additional information will not be released until test results are received. Korena Roberts, 28, is charged with murder in Snively's death. She was scheduled to appear in court Monday afternoon." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/06/08/oregon.pregnancy.murder/index.html?eref=rss_crime By CNN.com 5/22/2009 "Melissa Huckaby, the former Sunday school teacher accused of kidnapping, raping and killing 8-year-old Sandra Cantu, will face additional charges that she tried to poison two people, including another 7-year-old girl. A revised complaint against Huckaby, 28, of Tracy, California, was made public just hours before she was due back in court on Friday. The new charges caused another delay in the murder case, CNN afiliate KRON reported. The complaint charged that Huckaby "did willfully and unlawfully mingle a harmful substance with food or drink" with the intent to harm the child, identified only as "Jane M. Doe." Another alleged poisoning victim was identified as Daniel Plowman, but no age or other information was immediately provided." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/22/california.slain.girl/index.html?eref=rss_crime By YahooNews.com 5/24/2009 "An Oregon mother was arrested Saturday in the drowning of her 4-year-old son after the boy and his 7-year-old sister ended up in the chilly Williamette River. Residents heard screams on the Sellwood Bridge near Portland and called authorities. Some jumped into boats to help search in the early morning darkness. After about an hour, a couple found the children downstream. The boy, Eldon Jay Rebhan Smith, could not be revived; the girl was in a hospital and expected to survive." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090524/ap_on_re_us/us_oregon_dead_child By FoxNews.com 5/21/2009 "....For nearly a week, who the toddler was, how he died, and who put him there were a chilling mystery until Thursday, when a drawing of the youngster circulated by police led to the arrest of a young mother on murder charges. For nearly a week, who the toddler was, how he died, and who put him there were a chilling mystery until Thursday, when a drawing of the youngster circulated by police led to the arrest of a young mother on murder charges. Albuquerque police said Tiffany Toribio, 23, confessed to suffocating her 3-year-old son, Tyruss "Ty" Toribio, as he slept on the climbing gym — a crime so cold-blooded that neighbors struggled to comprehend it, and even veteran officers became choked up." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,520985,00.html By CNN.com 5/21/2009 "South Carolina authorities have located a 555-pound teenager and his mother, who faces a charge of violating a custody order, police said Thursday. ..."The understanding was that the individual was of the weight where it was decided by medical authorities that he needed treatment that was not being provided for by his mother," Armstrong said. Earlier in the day officials said the boy "is possibly at a stage of critical health risk."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/21/sc.missing.boy/index.html?iref=mpstoryview
By Mallory Simon -- CNN.com 5/19/2009 " Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico, released a composite image Tuesday of a young boy found buried beneath the sand of a local playground. The boy was discovered on Friday by a passerby who saw a tiny black and lime shoe protruding from beneath the playground sand. It led police to the body of a boy, who had been buried there in a shallow grave less than 48 hours earlier. On Tuesday, police still had no answers as to what happened at Alvarado Park -- or even who the boy was. His name is unknown, though the community has dubbed him "Baby Justice" or "Baby Angel." Nobody in the area has claimed his body, and nobody has reported a child of his age missing." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/05/19/nm.buried.boy/index.html?iref=werecommend
By Ben Winslow -- Deseret News 5/13/2009 "A jury trial in Colorado for the woman declared a "person of interest" in the phone call that sparked the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch has been delayed again. During a hearing in a Colorado Springs court on Wednesday, court records show the trial for Rozita Swinton, 34, on a charge unrelated to the Texas raid was vacated and rescheduled to begin Aug. 31. Swinton is charged with a misdemeanor count of false reporting, accusing her of pretending to be a sexually abused teenage girl in Colorado Springs who was chained in a basement. Swinton is also facing a probation violation charge in the Denver suburb of Castle Rock, stemming from her conviction on a similar false reporting charge there." Read the entire article: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705303219/Trial-delayed-for-suspected-FLDS-Sarah.html?linkTrack=rss-30
By Beverly Majors Oak Ridger - Tennessee 5/11/2009 "Juvenile Court Judge April Meldrum was the guest speaker last week at the "Lunch with the League," a League of Women Voters bi-weekly event. Meldrum was elected judge in 2006, defeating longtime Judge Patricia Hess. "I want to tell you about Juvenile Court and how little people know about it," the judge said. Read the entire article: http://www.oakridger.com/news/x1518872240/Juvenile-Court-Child-support-truancy-murder By Bianca Prieto | Orlando Sentinel Staff Writer 4/25/2009 "Delores Laster wrapped a towel around the .22-caliber revolver, pulled the trigger and put a bullet into the back of her cheating husband's head 21 years ago. Then, unable to lift his 215-pound body by herself, she recruited her 10- and 11-year-old children to help carry Clarence Laster from their bedroom to the garage. Those are among the accusations made public Friday in 900 pages of evidence from the State Attorney's Office case against the Orange County schoolteacher, details that portray a family with a slew of secrets. Recent interviews by detectives with the couple's children, now adults, revealed information that helped Orange County homicide detective Cpl. Duwana Pelton close the cold-case murder last month. Laster, 61, was indicted on a first-degree-murder charge last month in the March 1988 killing. Pelton, a seasoned homicide investigator, was shocked to learn from the children that Delores Laster included them in a cover-up of the killing. ....Earlier this month a judge released Laster from jail without paying bail. She must wear a GPS monitor and stay away from her two older children, both of whom testified before a grand jury about their mother, according to police. She remains out of jail." Read the entire article: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/orange/orl-asecfla.rop.a_f042509apr25,0,7374669.story By Miriam Kuzbary -- Opinion --The UTD Mercury Online 4/27/2009 "April is National Child Abuse Prevention Month - a good time to consider the safety of children, and also the efficacy of that are intended to intervene on behalf of children. Namely, each state's version of Child Protective Services (CPS). Every child, no matter how bratty and annoying, deserves a decent home. The definition of a decent home varies from person to person, but it generally includes being kept relatively healthy and free from severe emotional and physical abuse. CPS ideally aims to provide this to as many children as it can, but it fails more often than many people seem to realize. I recall my personal experiences with CPS in Texas. When I was five, one of my father's co-workers held such a large grudge against my dad that he sent an anonymous tip to CPS, reporting that my father was molesting me. Even after putting me in a strange room alone with social workers who asked me questions that I barely understood, CPS refused to believe my repeated claim that I had never been touched inappropriately. I eventually had to record testimony to be shown to a judge to clear the record. All people (and organizations) make mistakes. I wasn't taken from my parents, and all was eventually made well. Not everyone is so lucky, as stories that pop up in newspapers around the nation continue to show." Read the entire article: http://media.www.utdmercury.com/media/storage/paper691/news/2009/04/27/Opinion/Cps-Should.Protect.Kids.From.Abuse.Not.Rumors-3726318.shtml By CNN.com 4/24/2009 "An adoptive mother has been charged with murdering her 9-year-old quadriplegic daughter, prosecutors in Michigan said Friday. Lorrie Thomas was charged with second-degree murder and child abuse in the death of Shylea Myza Thomas, said John Potbury, an assistant prosecutor with the Genesee County Prosecutor's Office in Flint, Michigan. Thomas is also charged with tampering with evidence. Thomas, who is the girl's biological aunt, made no immediate public statement. Police found the girl's body this week, stuffed inside a garbage bag in a public storage facility in Vienna Township, near Flint, said Genesee County prosecutor David Leyton." Read the entire article: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/04/24/michigan.child.dead/index.html?eref=rss_crime By Megha Satyanarayana • Free Press 4/21/2009 "The Mayor's Task Force on Child Abuse and Neglect held its 4th Annual Community Leaders Breakfast today at the Detroit Yacht Club to promote child welfare issues as part of National Child Abuse and Prevention Month. Mayor Ken Cockrel, Jr. praised some of the Detroit Department Health and Wellness Promotion's outreach efforts and said, “The prevention of child abuse and neglect is something we're going to make a top priority.”..." Read the entire article: http://www.freep.com/article/20090421/NEWS02/90421068/1004/NEWS/Task+force+tackles+child+abuse++neglect By The Eagle.com 4/13/2009 "Some hospitals report seeing more than twice as many shaken babies as a year ago. Deaths from domestic violence have increased sharply in some areas. Calls to domestic-violence hotlines have risen, too, and more than half the callers said their families' financial situation has changed recently. Across the country, these and other signs point to another troubling effect of the recession: The American home is becoming more violent, and the ailing economy could be at least partially to blame. ..."Our children and families are suffering," said Alane Fagin, who runs a Long Island nonprofit group called Child Abuse Prevention Services. "With more layoffs expected, the threat of foreclosure looming over so many and our savings disappearing, even the best parents can feel stressed out and overwhelmed. ....Not everyone is convinced domestic violence and child abuse are increasing. "So far from what I've read there is no evidence that is the case," said Ben Tanzer of Chicago-based Prevent Child Abuse. "Certainly we're concerned that certain communities may be in crisis, but we just don't know. ....Amy Wicks, a spokeswoman with the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, said her organization has received reports from pediatricians around the country concerned about an increase in cases. "It's not just shaken baby; it's other forms of physical abuse," Wicks said. "A lot of fathers, or male caregivers, have been laid off and now they're home with the screaming baby. Sometimes the stress of a crying baby is just too much on top of everything else."..." Read the entire article: http://www.theeagle.com/nation/Economy-may-boost-violence-in-families By CBS News 4/13/2009 "As CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports, Sandra's home remains a magnet for those trying to come to terms with her brutal murder. "It's just um something that's hit very hard," said neighbor Anna Carreiro. "And she (looking at little girl) has a lot of questions of why someone would do that." While parts of the investigation have been public, like the search of a local church, police are releasing few details. "I think it's scary that this person is still out there and that's what I told my daughters on the way to school the next day," said Tracy, Calif. resident Monica Kahoonei. ....What people in Tracy want most now is to find her killer. "I just wish they caught him," said Gabriela Stone. "I wish they could get him. Whoever did it, they got to get him."..." Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/10/earlyshow/main4933677.shtml By CBS News 4/13/2009 "The woman suspected of killing an 8-year-old girl found stuffed into a suitcase is being held in an observation cell where jail staff monitor her mental health, officials said. Meanwhile, the families of the suspect and the slain girl attended Easter services Sunday at separate churches, struggling to cope." Read the entire article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/13/national/main4938848.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4938848 By Barbara Kay -- National Post -- 4/1/2009 "Last weekend, I attended the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS), Canada's first international conference on a form of child abuse that can be as bad as, or even worse than, sexual and physical abuse. ...The late psychologist and researcher Richard Gardner said of PAS, the term he coined in 1985, "I have introduced this term to refer to a disturbance in which children are obsessed with deprecation and criticism of a parent --denigration that is unjustified and/or exaggerated." ...PAS-level alienators -- whether male or female, the pattern of behaviour is identical -- are typically so pathologically consumed with anger triggered by rejection, that they are beyond the reach of reason or moral suasion. More than just punishing, they wish literally to wipe out the target parent's existence." Read the entire article: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=49f09920-0cb6-45f4-8fe8-ef4df2e3206b&p=1 By Chicago Tribune.com 3/31/2009 "A former religious cult member who helped starve her son to death believes he will be resurrected, but legal experts say her extreme faith doesn't make her criminally insane. The mother made an extraordinary deal with prosecutors Monday that her guilty plea to child abuse resulting in death will be withdrawn if her 1-year-old son, Javon Thompson, comes back to life. Law experts and psychiatrists said there was no problem with the agreement because Ria Ramkissoon, 22, was mentally competent and freely entered into the deal, and extreme religious beliefs aren't deemed insane by law. "To say that someone is crazy because they have beliefs is very difficult," said Dr. Jonas Rappeport, a retired forensic psychiatrist and the former chief medical officer for Baltimore Circuit Court." Read the entire article: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-child-slain-cult,0,90155.story By McClatchy 3/22/2009 "Drug possession, domestic violence, repeatedly driving drunk, assault with a deadly weapon — any one of these charges or convictions could lead child protective services workers to remove children from a home or force a parent into counseling. But all of those crimes and many others appear in the backgrounds of employees of Sacramento County's Child Protective Services, a Bee investigation has found." Read the entire article: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/200/story/64560.html By Associated Press --FoxNews.com 3/14/2009 "A Louisiana woman has been found guilty of killing her baby by putting him into a clothes dryer and turning the machine on. A jury convicted Lakeisha Adams of second-degree murder Saturday for the death of her 3-month-old son, Jailand in December 2005. The local coroner's office said the child suffered blunt force trauma to his head as well as second and third degree burns on half of his body. The mother, who also had a 1-year-old child, was 18 at the time. Police in the town of Bogalusa said Adams admitted putting the infant in the dryer and turning it on, but did not explain why." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509257,00.html
By Associated Press --FoxNews.com 3/15/2009 "A former high school teacher in New York has been rearrested a day after being sentenced for having a long-running affair with a 16-year-old student. .....After her earlier arrest, the former High School math teacher pleaded guilty to rape and other offenses. She was sentenced Friday to the six months in jail she had served, the Newsday newspaper reported." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509261,00.html
By Associated Press -- FoxNews.com 3/14/2009 "A couple who ran a baby-sitting service out of their home videotaped themselves performing sex acts with children, some as young as 2 months old, police said Friday. Stephen E. Quick, 31, and Samantha Light, 25, both of Veedersburg in western Indiana, were being held on $100,000 bond in Fountain County Jail. Both faced preliminary charges of child molestation and child exploitation. Jail staff did not know whether either one had an attorney. Police who searched the couple's home found a videotape depicting sex acts involving Quick and Light and at least four different children between the ages of 2 months and 6 years old, said Fountain County Sheriff's Deputy Bob Kemp." Read the entire article: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509206,00.html
By Associated Press -Yahoo News- 3/16/2009 "Officials in Arkansas say all 10 children who drank windshield wiper fluid last week at a home day care center are out of the hospital and doing fine. State human services agency spokeswoman Julie Munsell said Monday that the last of the youngsters was released Friday, the day after the center's owner mistook the blue liquid as Kool-Aid. Munsell says daycare center owner Carolyn Bynum was distraught over what Bynum called a "horrible mistake." Munsell said her agency is investigating whether Bynum violated the terms of her license by having more than 10 full-time children in her care. Officials said 12 children were present but two of them may have arrived after school." Read the entire article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090316/ap_on_re_us/windshield_fluid_sickness Associated Press "For three years, neighbors in a quaint, middle-class community scarcely saw the lanky 16-year-old boy who lived with his adoptive mother and her boyfriend. Now, they know why: According to authorities, the teen was brutally abused and held captive in his own home. ....Hernando County Sheriff Richard Nugent called it "barbaric."" Read the entire article: www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,494225,00.html By Rita Price THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH "An Ohio mother recently went to prison for life, convicted of burning her infant daughter to death in a microwave oven. It's the kind of case that elicits the deepest sense of public horror. Newborn homicide and abandonment also inspire new laws. ..." Read the entire article: http://dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/01/04/haven.html?sid=101 View All Articles | Discussion  RSS Feed
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