A 7-month-old stopped breathing last Sunday while at a day care center in Ironwood, Michigan.

Ironwood Public Safety officers were called to the center shortly before noon Sunday after the operator realized the infant was not breathing.

The Daily Globe identified the child as Aden Michael Cannons.

Philadelphia police made a gruesome discovery, and they think it might solve the case of a baby that went missing in Baltimore two years ago.

Several weeks ago, Baltimore police received a tip alleging that an 18-month-old child had been killed in the city and taken elsewhere, police said. A follow-up investigation led police to Philadelphia.

Detectives with the Philadelphia and Baltimore police departments searched a rowhouse in the southern part of the city and found what could be human remains in a suitcase, according to Sterling Clifford, a Baltimore police spokesman.

Clifford said police investigators were waiting for results of an autopsy to determine whether the remains are human and, if so, how the child died.

He said detectives know the identity of the child that was reportedly killed and that they are working to identify the remains that were removed from the South Philadelphia rowhouse.

The story of the Austria man who kept his daughter and her children locked in a cellar for 24 years just got stranger and more depressing.

Stefan Fritzl, 18, and his brother Felix, five, learned to talk by watching a television in the dungeon where they were held with their mother Elisabeth Fritzl, 42. But their form of communciation is only partly intelligible to Austrian police officers.

Police chief Leopold Etz, 50, who has met the two boys, said: “It is only half true that they can speak. They communicate with noises that are a mixture of growling and cooing.

While there are some crimes we may feel warrants a long, tortuous death, trespassing isn’t one of them. And especially when the alleged trespasser is only 6-years-old.

Police in northern India arrested a man who allegedly threw a girl into a pile of glowing embers after he caught her trespassing, an attack authorities said Wednesday may have been motivated by caste.

The 6-year-old girl is recuperating at a state-run hospital in Mathura, the north Indian city where the alleged attack occurred, said Dr. Ramesh Kumar.

She is considered a dalit _ a member of the lowest caste in India, where a system of rigid social hierarchy still lingers. The alleged attacker, Madan Singh, 22, comes from a higher caste.

Singh discovered the girl relieving herself Tuesday in a field he owned and demanded she immediately stop what she was doing and leave his property.

“When she did not respond, he simply lifted her and threw her in a heap of embers,” local police official Govind Agarwal told The Associated Press. “The cry of the girl drew the attention of the villagers. They came rushing and pulled the girl out of fire.”

We’re not exactly church going folks, but we gotta admit there’s something intriguing about the high drama of a church that bills itself as “apocalyptic”. Well, that is, right until we read that the head of said church — who claims to be the “Messiah” — may have been diddling some of the younger parishioners.

The two girls and one boy — all under the age of 18 — were taken from the northeastern New Mexico compound following an April 22 investigation, Romaine Serna, spokeswoman for the state Children, Youth and Families Department spokeswoman, said Wednesday.

She said a fourth child, a girl, agreed to be interviewed by the department. Serna said that girl had been at the compound but now lives elsewhere with her parents.

The three children were taken into state custody because of allegations of inappropriate contact between minors and the adult leader of The Lord Our Righteousness Church, Serna said.

A 19-year-old was arrested on child neglect charges after police found her and her baby living in a home with no running water and littered with garbage and rotting food. We’re no neat freaks, but we would imagine there’s some serious psychological issues going on to live like that, especially with your kid.

“This home was not fit for a human residence,” an arrest affidavit states. “No child could remain healthy in this home and with the numerous biohazards the child was at risk of future great harm.”

An officer was dispatched at 10:48 a.m. to the residence and met a state Department of Children and Families case worker, who said a complaint was reported that a 1-year-old child was being neglected by his mother at the home.

“By the level of filth and smell coming from the home, it appeared from outside of the home, to be a dangerous environment for humans to reside in,” the affidavit states.

Police reported every room in the two-bedroom house was “filthy,” brimming with dirt, garbage, dirty diapers, decaying food and other items. A 1-year-old boy was in a crib in the living room.

Jessica Pope, an 18-year-old who attends Glenbard East High School in Chicago’s western suburbs, was allowed to bring her 21-year-old boyfriend to prom last weekend. The catch? They were only able to be there for ten minutes. School officials were concerned because they didn’t want someone in attendance that can legally buy booze for other students.

[Pope’s boyfriend Francisco] Velasco, a Marine stationed at Fort Lee, Va., received permission from his superiors to fly to Chicago for the weekend just for the dance.

Pope said that after dropping off friends at the Signature Room in Woodridge on Saturday and stopping briefly inside to say hello, school officials backed off and allowed the couple inside — if only for a few minutes.

School Principal Robert McBride shook Velasco’s hand “and went out of his way to say he wasn’t getting let in not because of any disrespect for the military,” Pope said. “It was just policy. Then another dean told us we could come inside for a bit and have some fun. I figured we would get a half-hour.”

But Pope said that within 10 or 15 minutes, McBride and several other school officials were at her table urging the couple to leave the banquet hall immediately while they were in the middle of dinner.

A Chicago mother is being held on $700,000 bail after she was charged last weekend in the death of her infant daughter. She allegedly starved and dehydrated the baby, and just overall neglected her, not even bothering to change the child’s diaper.

Chicean Crosby, 25, of the 7200 block of South Winchester Avenue wept at the hearing before Circuit Judge Raymond Myles at the Cook County Criminal Courts Building.

Crosby’s daughter, also named Chicean, was found dead Oct. 13 by paramedics responding to a call that the child was unresponsive. After the child’s death was ruled a homicide by the Cook County medical examiner’s office on April 10, Crosby was arrested and charged on Saturday.

Though police said in October that the death did not appear to be the result of criminal activity, no cause of death was given by the medical examiner’s office at the time pending further investigation.

Side note: Why did the autopsy take so long? Have we been watching too much CSI?

A man in Aurora, Illinois who was previously convicted in 1999 on aggravated criminal sexual abuse has been sentenced back to prison for 13 years after police found an incredibly large stash of child pornography in his home. One perv down, one million to go.

Steven J. Ruby, 44, must serve about half his sentence before he is eligible for parole again, and also receives credit for 1,094 days in the Kane County jail, prosecutors said.

Ruby, formerly of the 200 block of South LaSalle Street, was convicted Feb. 22 of two counts of possession of child pornography.

On April 27, 2005, parole officers on a check at Ruby’s home found several sexually explicit photos of children in his bedroom and inside aluminum cooking trays in the refrigerator, prosecutors said.

A search of Ruby’s computer and compact discs also revealed about 3,500 additional images and more than 100 movies, several of children and infants engaged in sex acts, prosecutors said.

A young man in Hoffman Estates, Illinois was hit by a train last weekend and died. The Cook County coroner has ruled the death a suicide.

A 14-year-old boy who was struck and killed by a freight train last weekend committed suicide, an autopsy has found.

Emergency personnel responded about 12:50 p.m. Sunday to a report of a pedestrian struck by a train near the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern Railway Company (EJ&E) tracks about 500 feet north of Columbine Boulevard near Pratum Avenue.

Michael A. Cecala, of 5297 Elliott Drive, was dead at the scene. He died of multiple injuries, and his death was ruled a suicide, according to an autopsy report issued Monday by the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.

What we don’t get when we hear these kinds of stories, is why the parents thought that nobody would notice a small child alone in a car while you shop at the mall. And on top of it, these knuckleheads didn’t even bother to lock the doors!

Authorities say the boy’s mother, 20-year-old Mauriel Mercado, and her boyfriend, 22-year-old Derek Garcia, left the toddler Friday evening outside the Arden Fair Mall.

Mall security officials say the toddler was spotted by passers-by after he set off the car alarm. One mall customer retrieved the toddler from the unlocked car.

Steve Reed, head of security at the mall, says the car’s windows were up and the child was sweating and looked frightened.

Maybe these 2 need some sweaty, frightening solitary confinement so they’ll know how the kid felt.

How can an 11-month-old baby even reach the kitchen counter?

An 11-month-old baby in a burn unit in Lincoln after being pulling a vegetable steamer full of boiling water onto himself.

The accident happened just after noon yesterday. Omaha police say officers were called to the house and found the boy and his father. The father told them the baby had pulled a vegetable steamer full of hot water from a kitchen counter down on top of himself, causing burns to his upper body.

A “man” in Hayward, California has been charged with 4 felony counts for holding an infant under scalding hot water. The report says that the 16-month-old suffered “unimaginable agony” — which we think perhaps this guy should be subjected to in return, no?

Christian Perez, 20, was charged with child abuse, child endangerment, torture and aggravated mayhem. He’s been held without bail at the Hayward police station since his arrest Thursday, Orrey said.

Emergency dispatchers initially summoned firefighters to the DMV parking lot on Soto Road and Jackson Street in response to a 9-1-1 call claiming a baby was suffering from convulsions.

The baby was found be unresponsive and convulsing and was immediately taken to Children’s Hospital Oakland, Orrey said. Firefighters, suspecting possible child abuse, contacted police.

Christian Perez told Special Victims Unit detectives that the baby suffered burns while he was giving him a shower at his home on the 2700 block of Melbourne Avenue, an explanation they thought to be inconsistent with the boy’s injuries, Orrey said.

What an incredibly odd correlation. Apparently if your child attends daycare when they are very young, it can reduce their risk of developing leukemia by 30%. Make sure to whip out that statistic next time someone looks down at you for being a working mom.

The new research, to be presented April 29 at the 2nd Children with Leukaemia Causes and Prevention of Childhood Leukaemia Conference in London, is the first comprehensive analysis of studies investigating the association between social contact and childhood leukaemia.

“Combining the results from these studies together provided us with more confidence that the protective effect is real. Analysing the evidence in this way gives a more reliable answer to the question and a more precise estimate of the magnitude of the effect,” said the study’s leader, Dr. Patricia Buffler, professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health of the University of California, Berkeley.

This kid is lucky to be alive. Take this opportunity to tell your children about the danger of getting close to low hanging power lines, folks!

A 7-year-old boy was recovering Monday after he touched a live wire while playing outside Sunday.

Neighbors said the boy, Robert Johnston, was walking with his mother, another woman and a friend through a wooded area near his home when he somehow touched a power line. Power officials said the line sent 19,900 volts of electricity through his body.

“I don’t think any of us really slept last night because we really didn’t know if this child was going to survive or not,” neighbor Sara Smith said.

The boy was in stable condition at Shriner’s Hospital in Boston.