Articles labeled: child endangerment

It’s a no-brainer that the boyfriend should get life in prison for heinously torturing a 2 year old girl, but the mother isn’t being charged for any crimes. While she wasn’t home, can’t she be charged for putting her baby in harms way? I know she can’t be charged for being stupid, but couldn’t the courts argue that this type of thing doesn’t just happen out of the blue. The mother do doubedly knew that this guy was a real jerk and left her baby in his care anyway.

John Bujak, Canyon County prosecutor, says Mario Gonzalez, 23, burned the girl 15 times on her toe with a cigarette. He apparently harmed the child because he was frustrated that she wouldn’t stop crying.

He also hit her head several times, broke both of her arms and punched her in the stomach, officials say. Gonzalez is the boyfriend of the toddler’s mother.

A 2 month old infant was taken to the hospital with numerous injuries including a skull fracture, resulting in alleged, ongoing abuse…

ERIE, Pa. - A northwestern Pennsylvania man has been charged with fracturing his infant daughter’s skull after doctors say her injuries couldn’t have happened when the child fell from the man’s knee, as he claimed.

Twenty-eight-year-old Cory Rankin, of Erie, is charged with aggravated assault, child endangerment and other crimes.

A mother, and I use that term lightly here, allegedly left her 7 month old daughter alone, strapped inside a car seat for as long 16 hours. Police discovered her in the middle of a bunch of garbage inside her Fort Walton Beach Florida home.

Officers indicated in the report the child could have been left alone for as long as 16 hours.

“The baby had a misshapen head due to the baby being in the car seat for extended period of time,” the report said. “The baby also had weak muscularity due to lack of physical therapy. The baby also had a yeast infection.”

A man and woman in Pennsylvania have been charged with child endangerment after police stated they were so wasted on booze and cocaine they didn’t even notice their 2-month-old was dying.

A 3-year-old Pittsburgh boy was beat up so badly that he’s now in critical condition. The boy’s mother, a mere 19 years old, has been charged with endangering the welfare of a child after the “man”, Ryan Brothers, that she was shacking up with was charged with aggravated assault in the child’s beating. Brothers told cops that he did commit “various aspects of the abuse.”

We know there’s only 8 more days left in the holiday shopping season, but that’s not important enough to leave your kid in a freezing car.

St. Charles woman was arrested Monday after she left her 20-month-old child alone inside a van while she shopped at a west-side store, police said.

The van’s engine was turned off and the outside temperature was hovering around 11 degrees, with a -8 wind chill factor at the time, authorities said.

Police were called to the parking lot of the Target store, 300 S. Randall Road, about 12:30 p.m. after an off-duty Elgin Fire Department officer spotted the boy sitting unattended in a car seat in the back seat of the vehicle, according to Deputy Police Chief Jeffrey Swoboda.

When relatives of an Indiana mother came to pick up her 1-year-old child after she had been charged with DUI and child endangerment, they set off the irony alarms.

Kelli M. Thompson, 24, of Crown Point was charged with endangering the life of a child while driving intoxicated after she was pulled over about 12:45 a.m. on U.S. Highway 30, police said. Police told her she could call someone to get the child.

The child’s father was first to come, but when he arrived, police said, they discovered he, too, was drunk and charged him with operating a vehicle while intoxicated and driving on a suspended license. Robert Dereamer, 23, of Merrillville was taken to Lake County Jail, where his wife was also being held.

Next, the baby’s grandparents showed up. Both of them also had been drinking, police said, but the grandmother who was driving was not over the legal limit, so police escorted them home with the child.

Police in Austin, Texas have charged a mother with beating her 4-year-old daughter and then throwing her into the path of an oncoming SUV.

The driver of the brown Suburban braked and did not strike the child.

Aurelia Gallardo, 24, could face up to 20 years if convicted. Bail was set at $25,000.

Lt. Dana Brockington with the Austin Police Department told The Associated Press early Friday he did not know whether Gallardo had an attorney.

When the incident happened Tuesday, Gallardo and her three children were waiting for a city bus.

A witness at the bus stop told police he saw Gallardo lift her daughter by the arm so forcefully that he thought the girl’s arm “was going to dislocate out of the socket.” The witness told police that Gallardo then violently threw the girl into the street and pulled her by her hair before throwing her into a parked vehicle, according to an arrest affidavit.

A New York man is pleading not guilty for assaulting his stepson with a belt while his wife was locked in the basement.

Alon M. Holliday’s bail was set at $50,000 Monday in Nassau County District Court. It could not immediately be determined Monday evening whether he had posted bail.

Holliday’s lawyer says his client denies the charges, which also include unlawful imprisonment and endangering the welfare of a child.

Police say the 34-year-old attacked the boy for not washing his stepfather’s laundry. Police say Holliday locked his wife in the basement of their West Hempstead home when she tried to intervene.

Authorities have removed three children — an infant, a 2-year-old and a 5-year-old — from a house in Carlisle, Pennsylvania that they say was unfit for humans.

The children are in the care of Cumberland County Children and Youth while their mother, Shawnta M. Moody, 25, faces criminal charges after being accused of risking her children’s health in the filthy Carlisle home, authorities said.

As flies crawl over the surface of stained walls and dirt-crusted carpets in the now-empty house at 150 South Bedford Street, evidence of the children’s foul surroundings was piled in a pick-up truck in front of the home this morning.

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.

A man who cops say appeared drunk stumbled off from a Staten Island, New York train station, apparently forgetting that he had his 8-month-old daughter in tow.

Police say Eduardo Garcia, 23, of the 5400 block of Arthur Kill Road, appeared intoxicated when they were summoned to the scene shortly after 3 a.m.

A woman spotted Garcia dozing on the bench with his daughter in the stroller, a few feet from the tracks, and tried to wake him up, court papers allege.

When he awoke, he wandered away and left the train station, according to cops.

Police said they found him at the intersection of Prospect and Bay streets, about a block away. He’s charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor.

A mother in Oakland, California is being charged with child endangerment after she allegedly left her 4-year-old son home alone and he blew off 4 fingers with a large firecracker.

Adonneka Gilchrist, 26, is to appear in Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland in connection with last week’s incident.

The boy reportedly lost a thumb and three fingers on his right hand and suffered a shattered eardrum when he ignited a firecracker at his home on the 1100 block of 65th Avenue in East Oakland about 2 p.m. Thursday.

The boy was reported to be in fair condition today at Children’s Hospital Oakland.

We’re not even all that comfortable leaving our 9-year-old home when we go down to the corner hardware store. And we certainly wouldn’t leave him in charge of two kids under 3!

A 30-year-old woman was arrested and charged over the weekend with leaving her four youngsters - including a toddler and an infant - alone in an apartment.

Ortegga Oliver faces four counts of child endangering after police said they found the children, ages 9, 7, 2 and 7 months, home alone Friday night, court records show.

Well, in his defense, it’s illegal to have kids ride in the back of a pickup truck unsecured…

A Midlothian man was arrested Monday at a Posen gas station for keeping his two children in a cage in his pickup truck in order to control them, police said Thursday morning.

Ricardo Gonzalez, 35, was charged with misdemeanor child endangerment, according to Posen police, and admitted to keeping his two daughters, ages 6 and 3, in the cage, police said. A Cook County state’s attorney’s office spokesman said it has not yet been determined whether the offense will be upgraded to a felony.

Gonzalez’s Chevrolet S-10 pickup truck was spotted about 4:30 p.m. Monday at a gas station in the 3000 block of West 147th Street when someone standing at a fuel pump heard what she thought was a crying child.

“She looks inside this pickup truck and noticed a male subject pushing a juvenile’s hands back into the cage,” said Posen Deputy Police Chief Vickie Paggi. “She didn’t think this was right and notified police right away.”