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The 9-year-old Arizona boy charged with murdering his father and another man has been offered a plea deal that may spare him prison time.

The headline on the original story is “Conjoined twins separated by doctors”, to which we could only reply, well, we certainly hope so. Minor Topics recommends you only consult a doctor for your conjoined twin separating needs.

Maybe he was looking for a place to turn in empty cans to buy Thomas trains.

A happy ending in the search for a boy who went missing at a recycling plant in Arizona.

A 3-year-old was playing in the stacks of paper when his mother noticed him missing.

Phoenix police and firefighters spent nearly seven hours searching for the three year old at the Champion Recycling and Services Plant.

The boy’s mother says she met some friends at the plant and let her son play with other children in the stacks of paper.

Probation?! You’ve got to be kidding.

A Tucson mother who kept her 11-year-old son locked in a stuffy room all summer with only a bucket for a toilet has been sentenced to three years of probation.

Norma Barrientos had pleaded guilty to one count of child abuse.

Pima County sheriff’s deputies discovered Barrientos’ son locked in a room in August after he called 911 from a cell phone to report that he was home alone.

Deputies said the room was warm, had a stench of urine and feces and had a fan that did not work. There were bars and an extra locking device on the window.

Phoenix prosecutors have offered a plea agreement to the 8-year-old boy accused of killing his father and another man. His defense attorneys have not yet decided on whether or not to recommend he takes the plea.

The lawyer, Ron Wood, declined to provide details of the plea bargain offer. “When the time comes, we will have a discussion with the boy and the mother and decide what we are going to do,” he said.

Mr. Wood said the evaluations should be completed in the next few weeks. He said the state had not yet provided him with important evidence, including the results of ballistics tests of the .22-caliber single-action rifle that the police said the boy used to shoot his father, Vincent Romero, 29, four times and a boarder, Timothy Romans, 39, six times.

In court papers made public Saturday, prosecutors said the plea bargain would resolve a legal issue that had arisen because of the young age of the boy and the heinous nature of the crimes.

Police have released a video confession from an 8-year-old accused of shooting two people — his father, and another man that was renting a room at their house.

“I think, um, I think I shot my dad because he was suffering, I think,” the third-grader says. “So, I may have shot him.”

That admission led detectives to arrest the boy on Nov. 6, one day after his father and another man were shot dead at the family’s home on a quiet residential street.

Police have said the child’s initial account contained numerous discrepancies, which caused investigators to interrogate him further. Roy Melnick, police chief in St. Johns, said last week that the crime appeared to be carefully planned and that he advocated the boy be tried as an adult.

An 8-year-old Arizona boy is being held on 2 counts of premeditated murder, after he allegedly killed his father and another man with a rifle.

Police say the boy confessed to planning and carrying out the shooting deaths of Romero, 29, and co-worker Timothy Romans, 39, who rented a room from him. The men were found shot to death inside Romero’s home in the small eastern Arizona community northeast of Phoenix last week.

Police and neighbors are at a loss to explain why he would have used a .22-caliber rifle to kill his father and another man at their home.

“That child, I don’t think he knows what he did, and it was brutal,” said the family priest, the Very Rev. John Paul Sauter.

The third-grader is due in court Monday, the same day as a funeral Mass scheduled to be held for his dad at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church.

This certainly gives one pause. Who would have thought that a toddler could drown in a cooler?

Police say the boy’s father fell asleep late this morning with the boy in the house. When the father awoke at about 11:48 a.m., the child was not in sight.

Police say the boy apparently had fallen head first into an 18-inch square cooler filled with water and ice and a few bottles of beer. The water level was above the tops of the beer bottles and extremely cold.

Police say it appeared the child was unable to get himself out of the cooler and drowned. When the father found the child, he was unresponsive.

A Mesa, Arizona mom has been arrested for leaving her 10-month-old baby alone while she went to gamble. The mom claims she left her there because she didn’t want to wake her up — here’s a thought, if you didn’t want to wake her up, then that means you should have stayed at home! Although maybe we should be grateful — if the baby had been awake, this idiot might have dragged her along and left her alone in a hot car.

Ada Schwartzmann’s neighbor, who is also a relative, noticed her car was missing Saturday morning. Fearing the car had been stolen, he went to Scwartzmann’s apartment and unlocked the door. The infant was reportedly crying in a rocking swing.

Authorities have charged an Arizona couple with keeping their 9-year-old grandson confined in a rank closet.

The boy didn’t attend school, can’t read or write and weighed only 48 pounds, Deputy Dawn Hanke said.

The boy and his 8-year-old brother are in protective custody.

50-year-old Becky Lee Tortellet and 52-year-old Larry Alan Tortellet were jailed on $50,000 bond each.

Deputies learned of the alleged abuse when she brought her older grandson to a behavior center and officials there became concerned after he told them he lived in his grandmother’s closet, Hanke said.

A Tuscon, Arizona couple has been arrested and charged after their 6-month-old infant daughter was found dead.

The parents Terri and Scott sullivan are in the Pima County Jail. They are each charged with one count of child abuse.

It was at an east side apartment on South Pantano Road where police say, they found 6-week-old Kimberly Sullivan dead.

Victor Stevens was moving out of the apartment next door. He says he saw the father try to save the baby’s life.

“I saw and heard ‘the baby’s not breathing the baby’s not breathing.’ I really didn’t know what was going on, and I saw the father trying to give the baby mouth to mouth.”

Investigators say, at birth, Kimberly weighed 7 pounds 12 ounces. When she died she weighed 5-pounds, 12 ounces her skin was sagging and they could see her ribs.

A mother and her boyfriend have been arrested for shooting the woman’s two children with a BB gun.

The children’s mother — Briana Pierce, 26 — and her boyfriend — Paul Frantz, 35 — were arrested on two counts each of child abuse, said Deputy Dawn Hanke, a Pima County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman. The boy, 9, and his sister were placed in the custody of state Child Protective Services.

Last Thursday, the Sheriff’s Department was called to Homer Davis Elementary School, 4250 N. Romero Road, because the boy had visible bruising on his face, according to a search warrant affidavit filed in Pima County Superior Court.

He had been absent on the previous days, and school officials had been told he had the flu, the document said. His mother also left a voice-mail message at the school saying they were in New Mexico, and her son got bruises on his face, so she wanted to keep him home.

A 12-year-old accused of bringing a gun to school may have screwed over his entire family, who’s parents now face the threat of deportation.

The MCSO said deputies were called to Queen Creek Middle School, on Ellsworth and Queen Creek roads, after a teacher saw the boy show the gun to other students.

The teacher confiscated the 9 mm pistol, authorities said, and school officials notified MCSO. Deputies arrived at the school around noon.

The boy told MCSO that he brought the gun in his backpack because another student was picking on him, according to the sheriff’s office. He was taken into custody and will be sent to a juvenile detention facility.

According to MCSO the boy is one of four children whose parents are in the country illegally, meaning the family could potentially be split up.

Yes, you read that headline correctly — this story is about 4 levels of messed up.

A 14-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of delinquency in connection with critically injuring his 7-week old son.
Police did not name the 14-year-old boy, his son, or the child’s 14-year-old mother, citing their young ages and the status of the infant and his mother as crime victims.
The infant was in critical condition at University Medical Center, said Sgt. Fabian Pacheco, a Tucson police spokesman.
Police learned of the suspected abuse Friday when they were sent to UMC to investigate a report of an infant with suspicious injuries, Officer Linda Galindo said in a weekend news statement.

It’s hard for MT to imagine that anybody can be such a hard sleeper, they wouldn’t notice a toddler leaving their house for 12 hours.

Hannah Fenner, 2, was found shortly before midnight in the 600 block of East Wigwam Boulevard, about a block and a half away from the home where she had been staying.

Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office patrol units knocked on every door in the neighborhood in an attempt to find the parents. But it wasn’t until about 8 a.m. Saturday that Hannah’s grandmother notified authorities.

The woman said she woke about 7:30 a.m. to find her granddaughter missing. She said the pair had fallen asleep together in the master bedroom about 9:30 p.m.