Articles labeled: child torture

Amanda, the toddler who was beaten so severely, she had to have part of her intestines removed is only 2 years old.

To say the mother was a bad judge of character is a gross understatement…also, the Department of Family Services allegedly visited the trailer where this child lived a week before and found her with a broken leg and allegedly did NOTHING to protect her.

Amanda is still in critical condition in the ICU at Cardinal Glennon Hospital. Doctors had to remove 18 inches of her intestines. Police say the child was repeatedly beaten by her mother’s boyfriend, Kraig Monroe, 24, of Belleville. He punched the toddler in the stomach when she would not stop crying while her mother was at work. She is now in a medically-induced coma.

A mother and her roommate and cousin have been arrested in allegations of disgusting abuse and torture against an innocent toddler who had his ankles bound by duct tape, his hands duct taped to his chest and his mouth duct taped closed.

I’m speechless.

Jessica Nicole McClure, 23, was arrested Sunday after police found her apartment to be unfit for habitation and were told that she left her 2-year-old boy to sleep in his car seat in the living room. She has been charged with child neglect creating a risk of injury.

James Ryan Usher, 18, and Della Kay Jackson, 26, were arrested Monday after police said they found evidence linking them to alleged child neglect. Both were charged with child abuse resulting in injury.

Police said Usher is McClure’s cousin and Jackson is the woman’s roommate.

A woman was found in a Kenosha, WI home, having been chained to a weight bench for as long as 3 years. She was no longer able to stand or walk, nor could she speak. A baby was also strapped to a car seat in a dark room with a diaper that was many days old, also apparently tortured and abused. The toddler is thought to be the chained up woman’s sisters baby.

The mother of the woman and grandmother to the toddler and her son were charged and arrested.

A disabled woman was found covered in excrement and chained to a weight bench in what Wisconsin authorities said Tuesday was one of the most disturbing abuse cases they had ever encountered.

Sally Adams, 56, and her son, Ernest Claiborne, 34, were charged with keeping Adams’ 38-year-old daughter and Adams’ 2 1/2 -year-old grandson in vile conditions in their Kenosha home.

Adams and Claiborne were arrested Saturday after police discovered Adams’ daughter chained to exercise equipment, according to criminal complaints filed Monday in Kenosha County Circuit Court. The toddler was found in a filthy diaper strapped to a car seat in a small, darkened room, the filing said.

After a man named Daronlo Lamont Billinger allegedly had an argument with her mother, a 22 month old child was abducted by a Bilinger who allegedly beat the baby seriously and has since been charged. It is unknown if the baby was sexually abused as well. Investigations continue.

The mother called 911 and said she last saw Billinger taking her child into the woods.

A short time later, deputies searching for the child spotted Billinger near his house, authorities said. He fled into the home, where deputies arrested him and found the girl in a rear bedroom.

Investigators said the toddler had serious injuries to her face, head, back and legs. She was taken to a local hospital.

In what appears to be a case of sadistic abuse against an infant, the father is charged with the murder of his infant son.

JEFFERSON, Wis. (AP) — A Lake Mills father is accused of throwing his infant son against a wall and causing his death.

Thirty-year-old Michael Wey is charged with first-degree reckless homicide in the death of 4-month-old Nikolai Andrew Wey, who was taken off life support at Children’s Hospital in Madison Aug. 21. A Milwaukee County medical examiner determined the baby died of a skull fracture and other head injuries.

Jaycee Dupree, the woman who was kidnapped 18 years ago from a bus stop in California — when she was just 11 years old, had two children with her captor and rapist. Those children’s names are Angel, 11 and Starlet, 15. As strange as their lives were, living in squalor in a locked shed behind their captor’s house. Apparently, in some way, the girls had normal pre-teen/teen interests.

In many ways, this story is eerily similiar to that of Elisabeth Fritzl, the Austrian girl who was locked in a dungeon and continually raped by her father for 20 years. Elizabeth also bore children by her rapist/father.

Her two daughters, fathered by 58-year-old Garrido, attended birthday parties and, like many girls their age, shared a love for the TV show “Hannah Montana.”

The media “made it seem like these little girls were living like wolves or jungle kids in the backyard dungeon. Perhaps that’s it, but they didn’t give that visual to me,” said Cheyvonne Molino, who runs an auto wrecking yard with her husband

A mother recounts how a 22 month old’s father beat him daily. Both the mother and father have been arrested for child abuse and homocide. The mother was arrested for being complicit in the abuse.

The boy’s mother, Theresa Harper, told FOX40’s Lonnie Wong in an exclusive interview that Harper had a history of abusing her son, including punching his ribs daily and choking him the day he died.

“[Harper] said he did it because he didn’t have a father,” Theresa Harper said through tears.

Now, the Harper Family is planning funeral and cremation arrangements for a baby that was just two months shy of his second birthday. The family is asking for the community’s help in raising funds for the funeral and cremation.

A mother’s boyfriend allegedly got his rocks off by forcing her children, ages 6 and 9, to fight each other — street fighting style. If they refused, the boyfriend would beat them repeatedly while the mother stood by and watched.

The boys were saved from this abusive situation when their biological father noticed severe bruising on the boys and alterted police.

Joyce Sabotka, 30, reportedly allowed her boyfriend, Steven Meyer, 32, to stage fights between her sons - ages 9 and 6 - at the couple’s home in Tarentum. The oldest boy told authorities Meyer forced him and his brother to fight at least 20 times, according to a police complaint filed in court.

The baby was deaf and disabled. The father’s supposed girlfriend says she heard the sound of a grapefruit hitting the floor as the father slammed his head to the ground. She allegedly did nothing and is being charged with murder as well as the baby’s mother who stood by and did nothing.

Finally, a sentence which may help bring justice to innocent baby…

Dr. Raj Nanduri, a pathologist, testified that Maxwell had bruises all over his body from previous injuries but died from four blows to the head. She said the boy would have shown obvious signs of distress in the hours before his death.

Eyer testified at Tuesday’s hearing that she left Maxwell with Garcia and Lansdon at his home in East Alton on Dec. 26, although she had been warned by the Illinois Department of Children and Family Services never to allow Garcia to be with the child unsupervised.

A stepfather has been arrested on charges that he and the children’s mother starved the 3 young children, ages 5, 10 and 11 and kept them locked in a budget motel bathroom. Allegations of sexual abuse have also been reported. Police found the children when the mother asked for assitance in removing the children — the children that she neglected to protect. There was also a baby in the hotel room, apparently unharmed because that was the child that the abuser and the mother had together.

Police described the case as one of the worst cases of child abuse they’ve seen.

Court documents describe just how badly the children were abused.

A doctor reported they were horribly emaciated, underweight and malnourished. He described their nutritional status as life threatening. He also said there was a history of severe, ongoing physical, emotional and mental neglect, the documents state.

All three were hospitalized for more than a week.

A boy’s stepfather kept him locked in his room for six years, using an alarm and hooks and straps to keep him imprisoned in his bedroom. The step-father with-held food and water and sexually tortured and physically and emotionally abused the child from the time he was 11 up until he was 17, when he finally told his mother who did not live with them about the abuse.

It is not known why the boy was given custody to his step-father and why his immediate family was uninvolved in his upbringing or how the heinous abuse went unnoticed for so long.

Here are some details revealed about the sick torture that this poor boy went through:

In the statement, the boy said he was so underfed, he had gained 100 pounds in six months after leaving Pratt’s home.

He said when he was allowed out of the bedroom, Pratt would force him to stay sitting on the kitchen floor. At other times, the boy would be forced to kneel on a hard, wood floor or on a ruler as punishment.

“At Christmas, I could open my gifts. Then he would put them in a box, duct tape it shut and store it in the basement. I never got any gifts,” the boy wrote.

The boy said Pratt intimidated him by hitting him, cutting him with knives and threatening him with the rifle, so he was afraid to try to escape.

In one of the saddest stories I’ve read in weeks, a little 7 year old boy was beaten so badly by his father on Father’s Day that he was put on life support. Eventually, the boy was declared brain dead and taken off life support.

The boy’s father’s girlfriend is also being charged because reportedly she did nothing to stop the abuse.

RIP little man. The world never got to know you but you will be missed.

The boy was physically and mentally abused by his father for about two months, police said. On Father’s Day, he suffered severe injuries when his father slammed his head into a bedroom wall with such force that it left a dent in the wall, they said.

Schuler was arraigned Tuesday on seven counts of assault and battery and three assault counts. He pleaded not guilty and was held on $250,000 cash bail. His lawyer, Christopher Tully, said his client was remorseful.

A toddler who went through unimaginable pain and agony before she died from severe abuse at the hands of her caregiver, encouraged police to arrest another adult in the house for failing to seek out medical attention or report the abuse. This is definitley a step in the right direction for justice for child abuse victims.

The baby was being cared for by the family because the mother had custody revoked for some other form of abuse, which DCFS says is fairly common for a mother to dole out her children to various “friends” after their parenting rights have been revoked.

Cyleste Gonzales spent her last days in agony with a broken arm, a perforated intestine and bruises covering her little body, authorities say.

Her legal guardian, Sarah Mascorro Sifuentes, knew the 22-month-old was in pain but never took Cyleste to a doctor, authorities say. The child died Oct. 26 at a West Side apartment in the 2400 block of Oakhill Road.

Early Monday morning, authorities arrested Sifuentes, 31, and charged her with injury to a child by omission for failing to get Cyleste medical attention. Sifuentes was booked into Bexar County Jail, with bond set at $100,000.

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 man, who was a frequent babysitter of 2 year old girl, has been charged with murder after he stuffed her soiled diaper into her mouth.

Police say Melendez-Reynoso was babysitting the toddler with his girlfriend, who had for years watched the toddler and her two brothers, when Ivette soiled her diaper.

“She started crying,” Paggi said. “He became angry and took the diaper that the baby soiled on and suffocated her.