Archive for beating

Mother whips 4-year-old to death with a chord for peeing his pants

Thursday, July 19th, 2012

Vastie Coleman, 27, has been charged with injury to a child with serious bodily injury after after severely abusing her 4-year-old son for wetting his pants in the car. According to authorities, Coleman, of Harris County, Texas, whipped her son, Kyron Barnes, with a chord in their apartment on Sunday night. The Daily Mail reports that Coleman put her son in ... read more »

Teen and friend split list of his family members to kill with horrific baseball bat beatings

Friday, May 25th, 2012

A witness has said that Tucker Cipriano, of Farmington Hills, Michigan, who has been accused of beating his father Robert Cipriano, 52, to death in a horrific attack that left his mother and younger brother critically injured, had plotted the killing spree with a friend and the two and split in advance who would kill which members ... read more »

6 arrested for the kidnapping and horrific torture of their roommate at gunpoint

Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012

Unified Police in Utah say they have arrested a group of 6 roommates for kidnapping another roommate and subjecting him to horrific torture, including using a Dremel drill on him, for many hours. Thomas Chapman, 41, had moved into the home at 2931 S. 8950 West near Salt Lake City just ten days ago, upon the agreement that he would remodel ... read more »

Parents held on murder charges of son, 6, by beating, starvation

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

The parents of 6-year-old Khalil Wimes of Philadelphia are being held on first degree murder charges following the boy’s death last month. According to The Reporter, the medical examiner assigned to the case testified that the 6-year-old weighed only 29 pounds at the time of his death and had 15 visible scars on his face alone.  The ... read more »

Sheriff: Abuse of 4-year-old was “horrific”

Monday, April 23rd, 2012

Kershaw County Sheriff Jim Matthews says a child abuse case involving a 4-year-old girl being invested by his department is “horrific.” The girl’s mother, Catharine Ammons, 24, and her live-in boyfriend James Watson, 27, both of Lugoff, South Carolina, were arrested after law enforcement was notified of possible child abuse by hospital officials at Kershaw Health. ... read more »

Family of hate crime-murder victim asks for death penalty to be removed

Friday, September 30th, 2011

The family of James Craig Anderson has asked the state of Mississippi and federal officials to remove the death penalty from the table in regards to the seven white teenagers who allegedly murdered Anderson in the early morning of June 26. In a letter written by Anderson’s sister, as reported by CNN.com, states: “We ask ... read more »

Caught on tape: toddler beating leads to arrest

Monday, January 7th, 2008

Note to all you dumbass child abusers out there: if you’re going to beat your kid, you might not want to do it in front of a security camera. A Michigan man is under arrest for beating a toddler in a convenience store, police said. The store’s security camera caught the man hitting, kicking and ... read more »