November 26th, 2007
Yes folks, it may shock you, but… it’s still illegal to leave your child in the car.
Both parents of the 2-year-old boy had to learn this lesson the hard way as they have both been arrested. She is charged with confining an unattended child. The boyfriend gets a bonus charge for possession [...]
By joelnet -- 25 comments
November 25th, 2007
Seven-year-old Sean Gibson was found earlier this month wandering in a parking lot by employees of Westgate Resorts in Kissimee, Florida. He was out late by himself and begging for food at a buffet. The poor kid only weighed 37 pounds. They called authories who took him to the hospital.
Now domestic partners Suzette Stevenson, 45, and Jamie Lynn Martin, [...]
By Former Blogger -- 24 comments
November 24th, 2007
And you thought parents only behaved badly in the U.S. This story comes from Melbourne, Australia where a three-year-old Liliana Lam’s stepfather, Phong Gia Quach, 23, flew into a rage and crushed her against the edge of a bathroom sink.
Quach, a drug addict, said he never intended to hurt his stepdaughter. He told told police he only wanted to scare [...]
By Former Blogger -- 11 comments
November 21st, 2007
9-year-old Rowan Ford had gone missing for days. Foul play was always suspected as 9-year-old girls don’t just wander out of the house in the middle of the night and remain missing the following day.
Her stepfather, 24-year-old David Spears was uncooperative with police, refusing to speak to anyone until he “consults an attorney”. [...]
By joelnet -- 18 comments
November 18th, 2007
In Troy Hill, Pennsylvania, Clinton Smith, 30, is being held without bond on charges including aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, rape and endangering a child, for beating and sexually abusing his girlfriend’s 10-month-old daughter, Daniyah Jackson.
The baby had severe bruising to her face, arms and legs. She was also bitten on the chest and sexually assaulted.
The infant’s mother told plice [...]
By Former Blogger -- 16 comments
November 17th, 2007
In Tennessee, Wayne Burkhart Jr., 38, and his wife, Rebecca, 35, were arrested and are facing trial for child abuse. Wayne faces two counts of aggravated child assault and two counts of rape. Rebecca faces charges of aggravated child neglect and failing to report child abuse.
Burkhart’s 17-year-old daughter told police that she was sexually and physically abused [...]
By Former Blogger -- 9 comments
November 13th, 2007
This man is quite the piece of s**t. Using zip ties and duct tape he bound his 13-year-old son to a pole in their basement. He proceeded to beat the boy with a 2×4. He beat him until it broke. Though that wasn’t going to stop him. He simply [...]
By joelnet -- 20 comments
November 11th, 2007
In Northglenn, Colorado, Michael Ochsner was arrested on suspicion of child abuse for beating his girlfriend’s four-year-old son, Kurt Green.
Ochsner and the boy’s mom Velta Asplin took the boy to their local emergency room. He was flown to Children’s Hospital for emergency surgery and remains there in the ICU. He’s listed in critical but stable condition.
Ochsner told [...]
By Former Blogger -- 349 comments
November 10th, 2007
In Tuscon, Arizona, Christina A. Blanco, 22, was charged with first degree murder in the July death of her infant son, Peter. She also faces a child abuse charge.
According to police, the 13-month-old boy died last July 14 when Blanco left him and his four-year-old sister in the care of her boyfriend, Alvaro Andres Ramos-Cardenas, 24 [...]
By Former Blogger -- 8 comments
November 6th, 2007
An unnamed Florida woman is accused keeping her 12-year-old boy chained in an outside shed and bathroom and repeatedly beating him with a hammer, metal pole, chains, cans, bottles and anything she could find.
I don’t know how this could have gone unnoticed for so long, as the boy was covered in scars from head [...]
By joelnet -- 17 comments
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