Archive for neglect
Wednesday, February 13th, 2013
A Lancaster, Pa. mother who allowed her 3-year-old son to pump gas at a grocery store gas station on Jan. 19, subsequently spilling fuel on himself, has been caught and charged say Manheim Township Police on Tuesday. Police say they responded to a call from a witness last month who reported a woman for allowing ... read more »
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Friday, October 12th, 2012
Two of Octomom’s former nannies are alleging that one of Nadya Suleman’s sons was caught sexually abusing one of his sisters and that Nadya “Octomom” Suleman did nothing about it. CBS2 LA broke the story on Friday, claiming Suleman’s two former nannies went to authorities to report the new allegations of abuse. One of the nannies told ... read more »
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Friday, September 21st, 2012
A three-year-old toddler girl was rescued on Thursday after a bounty hunter found the tot y herself while at the family’s home trying to capture her father for reportedly skipping bail. While the bail bondsman was unable to locate the girl’s father, he peered through the windows and saw the toddler by herself, surrounding by ... read more »
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Friday, September 7th, 2012
Welfare officials are investigating the apparent drowning death of a 10-week-old baby girl after she had been left unattended in the bathtub by her mother on Wednesday. According to reports, Julia Duda’s mother allegedly left her alone for several minutes so that she could get a cup of coffee and when she returned found the ... read more »
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2012
A 22-month-old girl died from severe neglect after her mother stopped caring for her and responding to her basic needs. The girl’s mother, Tiffany Nicole Klapheke, 21, said that she was depressed about her husband’s deployment and told Abilene’s KTAB-TV in an interview from jail that she knew she should have been a good mother ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Police arrested a woman they found sleeping behind the wheel of her idling car on 5131 North Freeway in North Houston at about 2:40 a.m. According to the Houston Police Department, before falling asleep in her car, the woman had gone into a tattoo parlor in the north Houston. Kese Smith, a spokesperson for the ... read more »
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Wednesday, May 30th, 2012
Lauren Booth was spared a prison sentence for the death of her 2-year-old son, and as she left the courthouse she smirked and joked to shocked news media and photographers, “Are you going to follow me all the way home?” Booth, 24, was given a suspended sentence by Judge Colin Burn, who said that Booth would have to live ... read more »
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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 »
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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 »
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Thursday, March 29th, 2012
The father of a 3-month-old infant girl is being charged with aggravated manslaughter after police say he admitted to punching his infant in the back of the skull to stop her from crying. Christopher Scott Ryon, 27-years-old, told police he wanted to take a nap and that his daughters cries were like, “…screams that go ... read more »
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2012
William Olsen, 21, has been arrested and charged with suspected child abuse and assault after his infant daughter was brought to a hospital in eastern Minnesota with at least 21 broken bones. Olsen reportedly admitted to authorities that he would routinely squeeze the infant and pick her up by her extremities. Court documents reveal that ... read more »
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Monday, March 26th, 2012
According to Harris County Police, a woman acting drunk and disorderly was found wandering a JC Penney parking lot in Houston, Texas last week with an unattended one year old in tow. A police report detailed the woman’s behavior as witnessed by police and observed by the strip mall patrons. The woman, Bryanna Lopez, 25, ... read more »
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
Khalil Wimes died Wednesday at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Penn., from what police allege was the result of horrific abuse and torture. The boy, 6, reportedly weighed only 25 pounds and police believe his death was caused by a “blunt force trauma” to the head. According to the CDC, the average weight for a ... read more »
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Thursday, March 1st, 2012
The Grandmother of Savannah Hardin, the 9-year-old Alabama girl who died after her Grandmother and step-mother allegedly made her run non-stop for 3 hours without liquids, had her charges upgraded today. During a Thursday bond hearing for the paternal Grandmother, Joyce Garrard, 46, Etowah County authorities announced they would be upgrading her original charge of ... read more »
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Tuesday, February 21st, 2012
Eleven children were removed by Child Protective Services in Dayton, Texas, after they were reportedly living within torturous conditions. CPS claims the children endured sinister physical and mental abuse which included constant beatings and restraints. Their home and living condition was described as “filthy” in a CPS report. One of the victims was a blind ... read more »
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