The Guardian

Lawyers and mental health experts are warning that child survivors of rape, torture and trafficking are suffering mental health problems because they must wait months, even years, for their cases to be addressed. Even the young people brought by the Home Office directly from Calais are affected by …

Monterey County Herald

Salinas >> The sentencing of Tami Huntsman, who pleaded guilty in February to two counts of first-degree murder along with torture, child abuse and other charges was continued from Wednesday to May 18. According to a document filed in court Friday by prosecutor Steve Somers titled “Opposition to …

New York Daily News

A Staten Island judge sentenced a killer baby-sitter to life in prison Tuesday, citing her torture and murder of a 17-month-old boy as the most heinous case of his career. Judge Wayne Ozzie imposed the term of 23 years to life after watching confessed child killer Gloria Fields stare blankly as the slain …

Tears, strong words, then applause when tot torturer is sentenced for murder – SILive.com

Court breaks out in applause as judge sends killer babysitter to prison – SILive.com

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La Crosse Tribune

Father sentenced to 5 years for Holmen toddler’s torture death … This is essentially a child withering away in front of your eyes,” Levine said. … Bartsh pleaded no contest to party to the crime child neglect resulting in death, while a charge of physical abuse of a child as party to the crime was dismissed …

Winona man sentenced to 5 years for Holmen toddler’s torture death – Winona Daily News

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WRAL.com

SALINAS, Calif. — A jury in Northern California convicted a 20-year-old man of torturing, starving and beating two children whose bodies were found in a storage unit. The jury on Monday found Gonzalo Curiel guilty in the 2015 killings of a 7-year-old boy and his 3-year-old sister. They also convicted him …

Monterey County man, 20, found guilty on all charges in child murder case – The Mercury News

Jury finds man guilty in torture, deaths of 2 Northern California children – Santa Rosa Press Democrat

California man convicted of torture deaths of two children – San Mateo Daily Journal

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The Salinas Californian

It took a Monterey County jury only an hour Monday afternoon to find Gonzalo Curiel, 20, guilty of torture, murder and child abuse in a 2015 case the prosecutor called the worst he’s ever tried. The murders were committed in Salinas but the bodies of Shaun Tara, 6 and Delylah Tara, 3, were found stuffed …

Curiel found guilty on all charges in murder/child abuse case – Monterey County Herald

GUILTY: Curiel found guilty of murdering 2 Salinas children – KSBW The Central Coast

Jury finds Gonzalo Curiel guilty on all charges of murder and child abuse. – Monterey County Weekly (blog)

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Inside the House of Horrors: How the Turpin Children’s Alleged Torture Escalated Over Time

PEOPLE.com

As the case against the California couple accused of abusing their 13 children for years unfolds, authorities have revealed insights into how the siblings lived, saying the alleged abuse worsened over time. David and Louise Turpin face numerous criminal charges including torture, false imprisonment …

CNN

Addressing selected members of the Indian diaspora in London, Modi called on society to do more while urging against politicizing the issue. “A rape is a rape. How can we tolerate this torture with our daughters? You are always questioning your daughters, why don’t you ask the same questions to your …

The New Times

Article 16 of the ACRWC specifically renounces child abuse and torture of any form, be it physical or mental. It mandates countries like Rwanda which signed the charter to take all the measures possible to protect children from torture, inhuman or degrading treatment, including neglect and sexual abuse.

Daily Times

The Islamabad High Court on Monday suspended the sentence of a judge and his wife in a case involving torture of a child domestic helper. The decision came in an appeal filed by suspended additional district and sessions judge Raja Khurram Ali Khan and his wife Maheen Zafar who challenged their …

IHC suspends sentence of judge, wife in Tayyaba torture case – Geo News, Pakistan

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The Salinas Californian

The trial of a man accused of torturing three children, killing two of them, resumed Monday with audio of the survivor found curled up and terrified with a broken collar bone bulging under her skin. Gonzalo Curiel, 20, and Tami Joy Huntsman, 42, allegedly beat and starved three children in her care, killing …

Huntsman’s mother testifies ‘she was like Mary Poppins’ – Monterey County Herald

Deputy who found tortured Salinas girl testifies in Curiel murder trial – KSBW The Central Coast

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The Salinas Californian

Both Huntsman and Curiel were arrested on child abuse charges. Authorities later learned of Shaun and Delylah, whose bodies were found in the storage locker in Redding. Huntsman in February pleaded guilty to murder and torture charges in exchange for avoiding the death penalty. Curiel, who was …

gulfnews.com

Islamabad: The Islamabad High Court Tuesday sentenced a former additional district and sessions judge and his wife to a year in prison in the child maid torture case, which sparked a public outcry December 2016. The court also imposed a Rs50,000 (Dh1,585) fine on Raja Khurram Ali Khan and wife …

Judge, wife get bail after year’s jail-term in Tayyaba torture case – Geo News, Pakistan

Tayyaba torture case: A year into the case, court hands one year each to judge, wife – Samaa Web Desk

IHC indicts judge, wife in child maid torture case – Daily Times

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CANOE

ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani high court convicted a former judge and his wife of torturing a 10-year-old child working as a servant at their home and sentenced them to a year in prison on Tuesday. Justice Aamer Farooq of the Islamabad High Court also fined the couple — former deputy district judge Raja …

Orangi child case: Post-mortem confirms rape, torture

Samaa Web Desk

The post-mortem of the six-year-old found dead in the bushes Monday night confirmed rape and torture. The body of the … The police had confirmed that the child’s body bore marks or torture. The post-mortem at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital confirmed that she was raped and tortured. According to MLO Dr …

The Express Tribune

“Even child sexual abuse cases are quite high among domestic workers but they go unnoticed and unreported,” she said. Meanwhile, the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) welcomed the verdict. “The commission believes that this decision would greatly contribute in addressing the …

Monterey County Herald

They testified as part of Curiel’s double murder, torture and child abuse trial. Huntsman, 42, pleaded guilty last month to two charges of first-degree murder, felony child abuse, three counts of felony torture and two counts of felony conspiracy after signing a plea agreement in which the prosecution …

Daily Mail

There are more sites devoted to horrific child abuse imagery including rape and torture than ever before, a leading charity has warned. Figures released on Wednesday show that the number of web pages hosting child abuse has soared by 37 per cent in the last year – with the NSPCC calling on Culture …

Child abuse images increasingly hidden on adult pornography sites – The Guardian

Third of child abuse images are now SELFIES as number of illegal pics skyrockets by 37% – The Sun

IWF global figures show online child sexual abuse imagery up by a third – Cambridge Network

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BBC News

Eight men accused of the rape, torture and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Indian-administered Kashmir have pleaded not guilty in a specially convened fast-track court. The body of the victim, who belonged to a Muslim nomadic tribe, was found in a forest on 17 January near Kathua city of …

BBC News

… very custodians of law, morality and virtue who give daily sermons on national pride”. In a deeply divided society, collective action is always difficult. Outrage happens – as in this case – when graphic details of the torture inflicted on the girl stir the conscience of many. This is what happened in this case.

Rape, torture and death of 8-year-old Asifa mired in religious politics – Independent Online

8-year-old girl’s rape, murder causes outrage across India – CBS News

Asifa Bano: Outrage spreads across India over rape of eight-year-old girl – The Independent

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KION

By: Brandon Castillo. Mariana Hicks. Posted: Apr 16, 2018 04:27 PM PDT. Updated: Apr 16, 2018 05:59 PM PDT. Week 2 of Salinas child torture murder trial …

The Salinas Californian

The second day of a child torture and murder trial in Salinas Tuesday involved twin children testifying that their mother and her then-teenage lover hit and beat their cousins in her care. Tami Joy Huntsman’s fraternal twins, identified in court as “twin boy” and “twin girl,” gave testimony to the jury Tuesday …

The Salinas Californian

The trial of a man accused of torturing three children, killing two of them, began Monday with testimony by the children’s teachers. Shaun Tara, 6, his sister Delylah Tara, 3, and another sister referred to in court as Jane Doe, then 9, were allegedly starved, beaten, tortured and abused by Gonzalo Curiel, …

Gonzalo Curiel murder trial now underway – KSBW The Central Coast

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The Mercury News

Salinas – As the murder, torture and child abuse case of Gonzalo Curiel continued Tuesday, prosecutors brought eight witnesses to the stand including Tami Huntsman’s four children. Deputy Monterey County District Attorney Steve Somers asked Huntsman’s children about the abuse and torture that …

Washington Post

But the gang rape, torture and death of a Muslim girl in Indian-controlled Kashmir has seen far different protests: Thousands of members of a radical Hindu group with links to the ruling party have marched to demand the release of the six men accused in the repeated rape and killing of the girl inside a …

Monterey County Herald

Salinas >> The murder, torture and child abuse trial of Gonzalo Curiel started in earnest Monday morning as the two sides gave their opening statements and the prosecution called its first witnesses. “I’m going to give you the entire story first,” Deputy Monterey County District Attorney Steve Somers told …

Monterey County Herald

Salinas >> As the murder, torture and child abuse case of Gonzalo Curiel continued Tuesday, prosecutors brought eight witnesses to the stand including Tami Huntsman’s four children. Deputy Monterey County District Attorney Steve Somers asked Huntsman’s children about the abuse and torture that …

Monterey County Weekly

If you believe there’s a special place in hell for those who beat, torture, starve and kill children (and you might not, gentle reader – I have no idea where your sensibilities about humanity, karma or the afterlife may lie) maybe you also believe there’s a special place in heaven for those who intervene in …

NPR

Does the state of Maine do enough to protect children? That question is at the heart of a state investigation after the death of a 10-year-old girl earlier this year. State prosecutors say she had endured months of torture at home. The girl’s mother and stepfather pleaded not guilty to depraved indifference …

Eight people arrested over alleged historic child sex abuse, incest – The Sydney Morning Herald

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St. George Daily Spectrum

The father of the Utah boy who endured physical and mental torture while being locked in a bathroom pleaded guilty to his involvement in the abuse, was sentenced to jail and taken into custody on Tuesday. In light of a plea deal, Russel Orin Jaynes, 41, pleaded guilty to one third-degree felony charge …

HuffPost

The panic also fueled a widespread belief that thousands of children were being kidnapped and tortured by members of underground satanic cults. That is how I was drawn into the panic. In 1989, my emotionally fragile niece, then 21, told her parents, two siblings and me that she had been abused by …

wreg.com

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Millington couple is behind bars after they allegedly “tortured” a young child. Jesse and Trish Piatt were charged with aggravated child abuse and neglect after they were booked into the Shelby County Jail on Thursday. WREG is not identifying the girl, who has been placed in …

Teacher among 13 men charged in Victoria for child abuse material – The Guardian

Teacher among 13 in child abuse raids – 9news.com.au

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LEX18 Lexington KY News

MILLINGTON, TN (WMC) – Two Tennessee parents are behind bars, accused of abusing their 9-year-old daughter after the girl was caught trying to steal food from her teacher. NBC affiliate WMC-TV reports she confided in her 4th grade teacher at Millington Elementary School about the abuse; her …

TN couple charged with child abuse after forcing girl to drink toilet water – CW39

Couple forced child to drink toilet water, police say – WCVB Boston

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Arutz Sheva

What is clear is that the harsh torture of two Jewish boys must be thoroughly investigated. The heart and mind do not tolerate that the Jewish state treats Jewish boys where there is no clear evidence of guilt in a manner that is harsher than they treat Arab terrorists whose bloody hands are held up for all …

SILive.com

… criminal weapon possession and child endangerment. She pleads not guilty through her lawyer at her arraignment. The aggravated murder and first-degree murder charges accuse Fields of acting in an “especially cruel and wanton manner” and “intend(ing) to inflict and inflicting torture” on the victim.

The New American

Instead of being honest, much of the press has been idolizing as a hero the mass-murdering communist terrorist infamous for, among other crimes, ordering the murder and savage torture of numerous victims, including innocent children. Most of her victims were blacks who opposed or were believed to …

Calls for girl’s torture murder to be reviewed by child death review team to ensure such cases … – ABC Local

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Babysitter makes last-minute, first-degree murder plea in tot torture, sexual abuse case

SILive.com

“This defendant tortured and killed a 17-month-old boy who was left under her care, showing a cruel and inhuman disregard for life. … that she stays behind bars for her sickening crimes and is never allowed to do harm to another innocent child,” said District Attorney Michael E. McMahon in a statement.

www.localmemphis.com

MILLINGTON, Tenn. (localmemphis.com) – An investigation is underway into a case of suspected child torture in Millington. It apparently went on for months even though abuse was suspected. Jesse and Trish Piatt are charged with aggravated child abuse after investigators say they tortured a young girl …

Parents force child to drink toilet water, sleep outside with no blanket, police say – WMC Action News 5

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Samaa Web Desk

Seven-year-old Mubashira went missing Sunday. The body was recovered from Islampura the next morning. The autopsy report adds there were 21 torture marks on the child’s body. However, medical superintendent Dr Tariq, said the cause of the death has yet to be ascertained. Further tests will be …

Autopsy confirms rape, torture in Faisalabad child murder case – Pakistan Today

Following child murder, Faisalabad observes city-wide strike – Pakistan Today

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Fox News

And Richards knows a thing or two about scripted TV. After all, she started her career as a child star. These days, she is also working as a producer for three new television shows: “The Corridor,” “Glass Houses” and “American Woman.” Bravo cameras have captured her working on her scripted shows.

Tennessee couple forced child to drink toilet water, police say

WTVD-TV

Tennessee couple forced child to drink toilet water, police say … is charged with aggravated child neglect and abuse after a doctor said the man’s 9-year-old daughter suffered abuse that amounted to torture. … “When they moved in, shortly after, our kids became friends with theirs,” the neighbor said.

VICE

Cults have always been good at making money. Generally, they do this by forcing their members to hand over huge amounts of cash and all of their worldly possessions. But some groups hustle harder. The FLDS scammed food stamps. The People’s Temple sold merch. Heaven’s Gate members built …

New York Post

Ghebremichael said in a prepared statement that her business has never faced any allegations of abuse or maltreatment and it is cooperating fully with police, child protective services and state agencies. “This was truly a sad, shocking and unfortunate event,” she said in an emailed statement.

Police investigate boy’s apparent beating at Indiana daycare – Tampabay.com

Daycare blames toddler for 1-year-old boy’s apparent beating – fox8.com

Police investigate possible beating of toddler at daycare – WKRG

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The News Tribune

School workers were worried about whether the tiny 6-year-old boy was getting enough food. His parents allegedly restricted his diet, possibly for religious reasons, and teachers noticed his lunch usually was something small — such as a rice cake and applesauce. Then a kindergarten teacher saw …

kfor.com

OKLAHOMA CITY – An Oklahoma City man is facing a child abuse charge after police said he allegedly beat a child because of a bad grade in school. Jesus Perez, 35, was arrested Wednesday night after officers responded to a home near the 1200 block of N.W. 101st St. According to MSgt. Gary Knight …

The Guardian

The investigating officer, PC Alice Hammick-Smith from the Met’s child abuse and sexual offences command, said: “Chan and Heow carried out a despicable campaign of abuse on three young, defenceless children. “These children should have been protected from harm by Chan and Heow. Instead …

Couple jailed after ‘despicable’ abuse against their three young children was caught on CCTV – Evening Standard

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The Independent

A couple who subjected three young children in their care to hours of near-daily abuse, including beating, biting and hair-pulling, have been jailed. Yea Ping Chan, 42, and Foo Khong Heow, 49, also made the youngsters – a seven-year-old boy and two girls aged six and three – stand in stress positions …

wreg.com

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A couple has been indicted after a 7-year-old boy died from alleged abuse, police said. In November 2016, Tevaun Williamson was rushed to Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital from his South Memphis home unresponsive. The doctors told police the child sustained injuries to his body, …

Couple indicted in 7-year-old’s beating death – WMC Action News 5

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Muncie Star Press

MUNCIE, Ind.– Muncie police are looking for a local man accused of beating a seven-year-old boy with an electrical cord and choking the child’s mother. Authorities are asking anyone with information on the whereabouts of 36-year-old Anthony M. Whigum to call Muncie Police Department dispatchers …

The Standard

“On or about January 2016, the first respondent (Kulola) used excessive force and malice in viciously beating the child with her bare hands and pinched him with her fingers and nails and on the inner arm, breaking his skin and causing the minor a lot of pain, bruises bleeding and harm,” she claims.

The Times

A man stripped and beat a boy “black and blue” in an assault at a children’s home, an inquiry has been told. A witness at the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, which is investigating the abuse of children in care, said that the man “battered hell” out of him at Nazareth House in Aberdeen in the 1960s when he …

Press Herald

Paul LePage on Wednesday vetoed a bill that would protect a $2.2 million child abuse prevention program that is slated to be eliminated this fall. The state’s system to protect children is under intense scrutiny after the child abuse deaths of two girls in the span of three months. A government watchdog …

KXLY Spokane

SPOKANE, Wash. – In Spokane today, a man is awaiting trial in the beating death of a baby, Caiden Henry. Another man, is accused of brutally beating and sexually assaulting his girlfriend’s toddler. In Post Falls a couple were charged with starving and torturing their 6-year-old. These are just three …

Oregon officials knew of Hart family child–abuse allegations, but did not intervene, records show

Washington Post

Oregon child-welfare officials knew in July 2013 that Jennifer Hart — who last month drove her wife and six adopted children off a California cliff into the ocean — had already faced abuse allegations in another state, according to records from their investigation released Monday. They knew that when …

Officials knew of abuse allegations in Mendocino crash family but didn’t intervene – The Mercury News

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Press Herald

The Legislature’s watchdog agency will take an additional three weeks to complete its investigation into how the state’s child protective system dealt with abuse reports of two Maine girls who were beaten to death. But the agency was able to gather the information it needs – despite concerns about state …

U.S. News & World Report

BEAUFORT, S.C. (AP) — In a story April 21 about a woman pleading guilty to abusing her daughter, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Dajaa Fields accepted a plea deal. She pleaded guilty without an offer from prosecutors. A corrected version of the story is below: Woman gets six years in …

Monterey County Herald

Salinas >> A jury found Gonzalo Curiel guilty on all charges Monday nearly two years after he was first charged with murder, torture and child abuse after going deliberating for about 90 minutes Monday afternoon. Curiel, 20, was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Shaun …

Salinas jury convicts child murderer on all counts – The Salinas Californian

GUILTY: Curiel found guilty of murdering 2 Salinas children – KSBW The Central Coast

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NewsCenterMaine.com WCSH-WLBZ

Kendall Chick was just 4-years-old when she died in Wiscasset on December 8, 2017. According to police, Kendall died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen and had suffered prior abuse and neglect. Born to parents who could not care for her, Kendall lived with her grandfather. His fiance, Shawna …

Monster shows cops how he beat four-year-old girl with a belt because she refused to count to five

The Sun

A SICK monster showed cops how he beat his four-year-old stepdaughter with a belt because she refused to count to five. In a disturbing police video a 20-year-old man named as Bakhram demonstrates to Russian police how he whipped the daughter of his lover 15 times, leaving the defenceless child …

CBS San Francisco Bay Area

(CNN) — They presented as the ultimate Oregon hippie moms. But peel back the homeschooling, organic food and music festivals, and Jennifer and Sarah Hart appeared to embrace a twisted philosophy on child rearing, according to two tipsters’ accounts to authorities in 2013. That philosophy was on …

Oregon had Minnesota child abuse report before investigating Hart family – CNN

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Island Packet

A St. Helena Island woman will spend six years in jail in connection with the death of her 6-year-old daughter in 2015. Dajaa Fields, 27, was arrested in August 2015 and charged in the death of her daughter, D’Naja. Investigators said the child had been beaten before dying at the hospital days later.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

Cops: Child’s beating discovered after asking Cobb school nurse for ice. 0 … Tmon Hall, 31, spent about 12 hours in jail after being booked late Tuesday on a felony child cruelty charge, Cobb jail records show. … The welt was discovered when the child asked the school nurse for ice, the warrant said.

CBS Minnesota / WCCO

A different person was caring for the children the night before, and she told police she had been watching the children for about a month-and-a-half because of an incident in which Homich “whooped” Lawson, hitting him in the head because he soiled his diaper. According to texts between this …

Eagan couple charged in 2017 beating death of 3-year-old foster child – TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press

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KFGO

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) – An Eagan woman and her boyfriend face charges in the death of her 3-year-old foster child. Zeporia Fortenberry, 30, has been charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter. Charles Wayne Homich, 27, is charged with three counts of second-degree murder and two …

Eagan foster mom, boyfriend charged in beating death of 3-year-old boy – Minneapolis Star Tribune

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Columbine Courier

A Jefferson County jury, after three hours of deliberation, found 22-year-old Joshua Gonzales guilty on a felony charge of child abuse with serious bodily injury after seriously injuring the 2-year-old daughter of his former girlfriend. The trial began April 9 and lasted four days. Gonzales is facing anywhere …

Dothan Eagle

Malone Clark of Abbeville faced seven counts of aggravated child abuse charges; Dixie Lane of Abbeville was charged with six counts of aggravated child abuse. Both pleaded guilty before Circuit Court Judge Larry Anderson in March. Both women faced seven years in prison, and both women asked …

9News.com KUSA

A jury in Jefferson County has returned a guilty verdict in the case of a man on trial for beating a young girl nearly to death. The jury found Joshua Gonzalez guilty after deliberating for three hours on April 13. Gonzalez was found guilty of Child Abuse Resulting in Serious Bodily Injury for abuse of his …

WESH Orlando

A caregiver is accused of hitting, kicking and pushing a nonverbal disabled child. Port Orange police arrested Julie Carter, 62, last week on child abuse and battery charges after they said surveillance video showed multiple instances of abuse directed toward a 12-year-old child in her care.

Fox 2 Detroit

DETROIT (WJBK) – Shocking video has led to the arrest of a Detroit woman for violent child abuse on Thursday. Warning: The video is graphic, we caution viewer discretion. FOX 2 obtained footage from a surveillance camera showing a woman kick a toddler to the ground. As seen in the video, once …

FOX 5 Atlanta

FLOYD COUNTY, Ga. – Adrian Mitchell, Sr. is struggling with the sudden loss of his only son. Adrian Jr., who was just 2 years old, died Sunday. The Cartersville father saw his son shortly before the toddler was taken off life support at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. “He had trauma brain and really bad …

Daily Mail

Carolyn Jackson and her husband, ex-Army Maj. John Jackson, were resentenced on Thursday by a federal judge in New Jersey, following their 2015 conviction on multiple counts of child abuse. US District Judge Katharine Hayden sentenced Carolyn Jackson to 40 months in prison and her husband, …

NPR

WIGHT: Christine Alberi is Maine’s child welfare ombudsman. She investigates complaints about the state’s system for protecting children from abuse and neglect. In her last four annual reports she found multiple cases where the state failed to recognize the risk to children in their parents’ care.

Child abuse law passed 30 years ago carries a legacy across state lines – Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

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WJXT News4JAX

ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla. – A St. Augustine woman received six months in jail after pleading no contest to child abuse charges after authorities said she whipped a 7-year-old girl with a belt, court records show. Amanda Dea Rauch, 23, was sentenced to jail time Monday followed by three-plus years of …

The Independent

Calling it a “senseless killing”, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele said:“The forensic pathologist’s determination that Tahjir’s death was homicide shows what detectives found in our investigation—that this was a violent, sustained beating of a 4-year-old that caused his death.

whnt.com

DICKSON, TN (WSMV) — Court documents reveal that the father of a 5-year-old boy presumed missing was beaten to death. Joseph Ray Daniels. According to the affidavit, Joseph Ray Daniels admitted he struck Joe Clyde Daniels repeatedly in the body, upper torso, head and face with a closed fist …

4-year-old Pennsylvania boy beaten to death for spilling cereal, prosecutors say

WABC-TV

The child died after he was allegedly beaten by the suspects for spilling his breakfast cereal. “The forensic pathologist’s determination that Tahjir’s death was homicide shows what detectives found in our investigation,” District Attorney Kevin Steele said. “That this was a violent, sustained beating of a …

Murder charges filed in death of boy who was beaten for spilling cereal – FOX 29 News Philadelphia

Boy, 4, beaten to death by mom and her boyfriend for spilling cereal – AOL

Mom, boyfriend accused of beating 4-year-old boy to death over spilled cereal – myfox8.com

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Jacksonville Daily News

Edward Hugh Felts lll, walks into Onslow County Superior Court Tuesday morning for sentencing after a jury found the 37-year-old, unemployed boyfriend guilty of intentional child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury, negligent child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury and contributing to the abuse or …

WJCT NEWS

American children are suffering from a hidden epidemic of child abuse and neglect. Nearly 700,000 U.S. children are abused each year, according to the National Children’s Alliance. In our area, DCF reports more than 19,000 suspected case of maltreatment were logged just in Duval County alone.

KSAT San Antonio

The friend the child mentioned refused to talk to investigators, saying she didn’t want to be involved, WJXT reported. According to the TV station, Rauch admitted to “spanking the child over the clothes with her hand, but contended a belt was never used.” But, investigators said the girl had “visible …

CBS Boston / WBZ

FITCHBURG (CBS) – The parents charged in the beating of a 6-year-old girl found dead inside a Fitchburg home allegedly super glued their other child’s wound and ordered him not to call 911. The girl was found inside a Stoneybrook Road just before noon on Tuesday along with her 9-year-old brother.

Police: Mother of girl who died used super glue to close son’s wound – CBS News

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4-year-old beaten to death for spilling cereal, prosecutors say

KTRK-TV

The child died after he was allegedly beaten by the suspects for spilling his breakfast cereal. “The forensic pathologist’s determination that Tahjir’s death was homicide shows what detectives found in our investigation – that this was a violent, sustained beating of a 4-year-old that caused his death,” said …

Sioux Falls Argus Leader

“It’s been a nightmare,” Mandy McDougal said of multiple child abuse charges filed against day care employees Teresa Gallagher and Kenedi Wendt. “I’ve been sick ever since.” Sioux Falls police say the children who were taken care of by Gallagher and Wendt complained about nap time on a daily …

New York Times

Richard A. Brown, the Queens district attorney, said the girl was the victim of child abuse, beaten to death by Mr. Jenkins while in his sole care. Mr. Jenkins, 32, was charged with second-degree murder with depraved indifference and assault, and more charges could be added as the investigation …

14 News WFIE Evansville

A Henderson woman is in jail after police say she severely beat a young child. According to police, officers were called to the 300 block of South Alves St. Sunday Morning for a call about a 4-year-old child who was not breathing. Police say the child had several injuries and was taken to the Methodist …

New York Daily News

The 3-year-old girl who died after cops found her unconscious in her Queens apartment suffered a fatal beating by her stepdad, prosecutors said Tuesday. … The city’s Administration of Children’s Services has never investigated complaints of abuse against Bella, until now, sources with knowledge of the …

Belleville News-Democrat

A Venice man and woman were charged with hitting a 12-year-old boy with a belt and spoon on the legs, arm, butt, back and torso, according to Madison County charging documents. Demetrius Fuller, 25, and Malissa Phillips, 29, were charged Thursday with aggravated battery to a child in connection to …

The Fort Hood Sentinel

Fort Hood leaders and community members gathered for the 2018 Fort Hood Child Abuse Prevention Month and Month of the Military Child proclamation signing ceremony at the III Corps Headquarters Tuesday. The ceremony honored military children, raised awareness of child abuse and its long-term …

Minot Daily News

Man charged with beating woman, assaulting child. Local News. Apr 5, 2018 … Shawn Lee Vallie is charged in district court in Minot with aggravated assault – domestic violence, interference with a 911 call and child abuse, all Class C felonies. Each C felony carries a maximum sentence of five years in …

WV News

KINGWOOD — An Aurora man charged with making terroristic threats at the Camp Dawson gates is also now accused of beating a child. Deputies say two days before the Camp Dawson incident, John Richard Henson, 35, allegedly punched and kicked a young child. According to the criminal complaint …

OregonLive.com

The parents of Devonte Hart removed him and his five siblings from public schools in Minnesota the day after one of his mothers resolved a child–abuse court case, The Oregonian/OregonLive has learned. Sarah Hart reached a probation agreement April 14, 2011, a week after she pleaded guilty to …

Miami-Dade police officer accused of beating 14-year-old daughter at school

WPLG Local 10

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A Miami-Dade police officer surrendered to authorities Monday, weeks after he allegedly beat his 14-year-old daughter at her school. According to an arrest report, Officer Raymond Rosario was contacted by his daughter’s teacher March 19, who told him that his daughter …

Observer-Reporter

Monessen mother charged in baby’s death from medication … 2 to find the baby’s father on the porch holding the child, who was cold to the touch and had no pulse. The baby girl, whose name is redacted from court papers, was taken to Mon Valley Hospital and pronounced dead within a half-hour.

Mother charged after allegedly giving toddler fatal dose of medication – WPXI Pittsburgh

16-Month-Old Child Dies From High Dose Of Allergy Medicine, Mother Charged – CBS Pittsburgh / KDKA

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BBC News

The death of a newborn girl could have been prevented if doctors had identified her head injuries earlier, a coroner has said. Eleanor Rowland died at Dorset County Hospital in Dorchester less than 16 hours after being born on 23 November 2016. Coroner Rachael Griffin said Eleanor died from a …

Seattle Times

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — Sioux Falls police say they’re investigating the death of a baby boy. Police spokesman Sam Clemens says officers received a call Monday morning about a child who wasn’t breathing. The 8-month-old baby … An autopsy could help determine what caused the child’s death.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

A Defiance County, Ohio, grand jury indicted four people Wednesday on numerous charges in the death of a newborn baby and disposal of his corpse. Authorities allege that on Oct. 29, 2016, Sarah Stark gave birth to a boy at a home near Hicksville, Ohio. The baby died 10 hours later. Sarah Stark, 35 …

Parents, grandparents indicted in death of hours-old baby – WANE

Four indicted in connection to baby’s death – Napoleon Northwest Signal

4 indicted in Ohio newborn’s death – Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

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Kansas City Star

A wrongful death lawsuit was filed Thursday against the operators of a day care in Eudora, Kan., where a 9-month-old boy was allegedly fatally injured. The parents of Oliver Ortiz filed the suit in Johnson County District Court against Gina Brunton and Morgan Eric Brunton, the operators of Sunshine Kids …

Eudora baby’s parents sue operators of home day care where he died – Lawrence Journal-World

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Mum reveals heartbreak as baby suffocated by teddy bear

Daily Star

“I stuffed some teddies round the bed so that my girl wouldn’t fall and hurt herself — but it was the teddy that killed her. “She must have wriggled in her sleep and the way she’s done it she’s wriggled backwards under the bum of the big teddy. “With how she ended up, there was no chance of her surviving.

Baby smothered to death by teddy bear in horrifying accident – New York Post

Baby girl smothered to death by 3ft cuddly toy in horrifying bed accident – The Sun

Baby girl smothered to death by cuddly toy in horrifying bed accident – The Sun

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Patch.com

SARASOTA, FL – A 26-year-old Bradenton man has been charged with aggravated manslaughter of child after the medical examiner’s report showed a 3-month-old Sarasota baby died as a result of an assault. Uvo-Kk Ayoma Uvo was arrested by Sarasota Police Tuesday, April 24, for the December …

Bradenton man killed baby, Sarasota police say – Sarasota Herald-Tribune

His 3-month-old son died days after Christmas. Four months later, Bradenton man charged with … – Bradenton Herald

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Seattle Times

Baby-sitter sentenced for Lakewood toddler’s death. Originally published April 20, 2018 at 8:20 pm. “There’s nothing you can do or say to make this up to the family,” the judge told the 31-year-old babysitter.

WPXI Pittsburgh

A Texas couple is facing capital murder charges after their 2-month-old baby died. According to KGBT, 21-year-old Beverly Garcia of Elsa and 23-year-old Braulio Villegas of Mercedes were arraigned Monday, one week after the baby was brought to a Weslaco hospital with a skull fracture and multiple …

10TV

LEBANON, Ohio — A former high school cheerleader’s trial on charges she killed and buried her newborn baby near her family’s house in an Ohio village is on hold, as intense attention and speculation continue to swirl around the case. Attorneys for Brooke Skylar Richardson want a ruling to bar …

News & Observer

Cary police have released the 911 call from a woman saying her son confessed to killing his 7-month-old baby and his wife, who was also his daughter. “My son just called me and he told me … he killed his baby,” said the mother of Steven Pladl, according to a 911 call released by Cary police. “I just got …

Dead baby in Knightdale linked to murder-suicide in Connecticut, NY – WRAL.com

Cops: Accused incest couple, their infant dead in apparent multi-state murder-suicide – CBS News

North Carolina father-daughter couple and infant child all killed, officials say – Fox News

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911 tapes released of North Carolina baby death linked to New Milford double homicide

FOX 61

NEW MILFORD — Police said the death of a baby in North Carolina is connected to the New Milford double homicide that took place Thursday morning. A North Carolina man accused of impregnating his biological daughter is believed to have killed her, their infant son, and her adoptive father before …

PD: North Carolina baby death linked to New Milford double homicide – FOX 61

North Carolina baby death linked to New Milford double homicide – FOX 61

PD: New Milford double homicide linked to baby’s death in North Carolina – WFSB

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Fox News

They say she didn’t kill the baby, and that an expert witness concluded there was no sign of burning or of trauma that would have caused the baby’s death. “What started as an 18-year-old high school girl who was frightened and saddened because of giving birth to a stillborn baby whom she named …

Trial on hold, but attention remains on Ohio baby death case – The-review

Ohio newborn death: Trial on hold, but attention remains on case – News-Herald.com

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Fox News

Assistant Wayne County Prosecutor Matthew Penney told the judge Thursday that paramedics eventually revived I’Nayah, “but sadly that baby passed away the next day.” “I didn’t realize Ann Marie Thomas was the victim in this case,” Penney added, referring to Thomas’ protestations to Archer.

Fired Detroit EMT jailed for neglect in baby’s death – The Detroit News

Former Detroit EMT gets jail time for refusal to respond in 2015 infant death case – WDIV ClickOnDetroit

Ex-EMT Gets Jail Time for Neglect in Baby’s Death – CBS Detroit

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14-Year-Old Mom Charged after Baby Found Dead Outside New Jersey Home

FOX40

HIGHLAND PARK, NJ — Police arrested and charged a 14-year-old mother in the death of her newborn baby boy, whose body was found outside of a New Jersey home on Monday, officials with the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office said. The baby’s death is being investigated by the Middlesex …

Body of newborn baby found in Highland Park – MyCentralJersey.com

14-Year-Old Mom Charged In Death Of Baby Boy Found On New Jersey Street – CBS New York

Infant rushed to hospital after found near death on side of house – NJ.com

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New York Daily News

A surrogate mother in China gave birth to a baby boy whose parents died in a 2013 car crash, according to a report. The biological parents had embryos frozen that they hoped would one day become their children during rounds of in vitro fertilization, the Beijing News reports. After their death, their …

Baby in China Is Born to Surrogate 4 Years After His Parents’ Deaths – New York Times

Baby is born in China four years after parents died in car crash – The Guardian

Chinese baby born 4 years after parents died in a car crash – CNET

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Fox News

The father and daughter had been arrested on incest charges and a 7-month-old boy found slain Thursday in Knightdale, North Carolina, was their biological child, according to a lawyer for Steven Pladl. “We’re trying to make sense of all the factors that led up to this senseless taking of life,” Knightdale …

The Latest: Connecticut double slaying linked to baby death – SFGate

2 Slain In Connecticut Case Linked To N. Carolina Baby Death – LEX18 Lexington KY News

2 slain in Connecticut case linked to North Carolina baby death – WSOC Charlotte

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Infant death in Knightdale linked to murder-suicide in Connecticut, NY

WRAL.com

Knightdale, N.C. — A dead baby found in a Knightdale home Wednesday morning is connected to an investigation of an apparent murder-suicide in Connecticut and New York, police said. Police conducting a well-being check at a home at 106 Earlston Court found the body of 7-month-old Bennett Pladl …

Father, daughter and baby they had together dead in multi-state homicide, suicide – WTVD-TV

Infant death investigation in Knightdale connected to case of couple previously charged with incest – WTVD-TV

Home of accused Knightdale incest couple the site of infant death investigation – CBS17.com

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New York Post

The infant was taken to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, where he died. Officials didn’t say whose home it was. The Highland Park teen — whose name was not released because she is a minor — “caused the death of her newborn baby boy,” prosecutors said, without …

14-year-old accused of killing infant son – Spectrum News

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Metropolitan Police

Detectives from the Homicide and Major Crime Command are investigating the death of a baby girl. London Ambulance Service [LAS] was called to a residential address in Tottenham, Haringey, N15, on 31 January at 21:13hrs to reports of an unresponsive baby. Ten week old Lily-Mai Saint George was …

MSN.com

Gardai are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of an infant after it was discovered in the boot of a car.

ABC News

Police in North Charleston, South Carolina, are investigating the death of a baby boy who was left in a hot car all day on Tuesday. The temperature reached 85 degrees that day — 11 degrees above normal. The baby’s father told authorities that he left his home Tuesday morning and was supposed to …

Baby dies after being left in hot car; dad says he forgot infant was there – FOX10 News

Baby forgotten in car dies in South Carolina heat – Fox News

Baby dies after being left in hot South Carolina car all day; father said he forgot infant was there … – WFJA Classic Hits and Oldies 105.5 FM

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KOMO News

PROSSER, Wash. (AP) — Prosser police say they are investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby girl. The baby’s parents found her not breathing early Sunday morning. The mother called an ambulance while the father started performing CPR on the baby. Medics were unable to revive the child.

2-month-old Prosser baby’s death under investigation – Spokane, North Idaho News & Weather … – KHQ Right Now

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The Local Italy

A 25-year-old woman also died of measles at the same hospital in late March. Italy’s outgoing centre-left government had made injections against measles mandatory for children starting at state schools amid a growing anti-vaccine movement. “The tragic death of this small patient, who hadn’t yet …

ABC Online

Warning: This story contains distressing details about a baby’s injuries. NT Police said the child died on July 26, 2012. The man was arrested this morning after an extensive police investigation and an inquest held in 2016 which revealed “further avenues of investigation”, officers said. An autopsy …

BBC News

A baby has been born in China to a surrogate mother four years after his parents died in a car crash, Chinese media reported. The couple, who died in 2013, had frozen several embryos hoping to have a child through IVF. After the accident, their parents fought a protracted legal battle to be allowed to …

Kasoa baby death: My wife almost went mad – Man reveals – GhanaWeb

A Baby Was Born in China 4 Years After His Parents Died – TIME

Baby in China born four years after biological parents’ death – Evening Standard

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Washington Post

BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian health authorities say a nine-month old baby has died of measles, the 46th fatality from an epidemic that has struck the country over the past year. The National Center for the Supervision and Control of Transmissible Diseases said Friday that the infant, from the …

NEWS.com.au

“The arrest this morning and subsequent charges were the culmination of an extensive police investigation,” Cmdr Hayes said on Friday. In his inquest finding, Judge Greg Cavanagh ruled that the baby died of a traumatic head injury. Judge Cavanagh said the original investigation of the death had been …

Man, 25, accused of raping a FIVE-MONTH old child is charged over the baby’s death – Daily Mail

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The Sun

West Yorkshire Police’s Detective Superintendent Simon Atkinson told the inquest today police had ruled out the possibility of “third-party” involvement in the baby’s death. He said Sheard had told police “we are not responsible for the death of our child”. DSI Atkinson said: “Clearly she had extensive …

Toledo Blade

A central-city Toledo man is charged with murder in the death of a 1-year-old girl. Joshua Herron, 30, of the 900 block of 14th Street has been charged in killing of Serenity Hunter-Davies. He was previously charged with felonious assault and endangering children, both second-degree felonies.

news9.com KWTV

OKLAHOMA CITY -. One person has been arrested in connection with a baby death in Oklahoma City. Antonio Goodwin, 31, was arrested Friday on a murder complaint after a 4-month-old child was taken to a hospital. Police were told Ryan Keesee, 4 months, was taken about 11 a.m. Friday to …

The Independent

A mother who claimed the HIV virus was a “myth” when she refused treatment for her five-month-old baby is being investigated by Russian authorities after the death of her child. The woman, who is HIV positive herself, has rejected medical treatment for more than five years. Investigators in the Siberian …

HIV Positive Baby Dies After Russian Mother Calls AIDS a Western ‘Myth’ – Newsweek

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South China Morning Post

An investigation was launched in Russia on Monday into the death of a five-month-old HIV-positive baby whose mother refused her treatment because she believed the virus was a “myth”. The woman, who has been HIV-positive for more than five years and always refused medical treatment, faces …

HIV-positive baby dies after mother refuses treatment – New Vision

Five-month-old Russian baby with AIDS dies after mother denies her treatment – Daily Nation

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Springfield News Sun

A three-month-old baby died in a two-car crash on Easter Sunday in Springfield, and at least four others were injured and transported to local hospitals. Jameson Crim, three months old, was pronounced dead at the scene of the crash at the intersection of South Shaffer and West Jefferson streets, …

Baby killed in crash while family shops for baptism

KTRK-TV

The driver of the minivan, a 30-year-old woman, broke her leg in the crash and was rushed to Kaweah Delta Medical Center in Visalia. The adult male passenger in the front passenger seat and the other two children in the van were not injured. The CHP says one of those children was also in a car seat …

WDIV ClickOnDetroit

A 19-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman have been charged in connection with the death of a 5-month-old baby in Flint, officials said. Mount Morris Township police were called Sunday by the Genesee County Medical Examiner’s Office about the suspicious death of a baby. Jordan Algee Jr. was …

Flint man, mother charged in death of 5-month-old baby – WXYZ

Mother, Flint man arraigned after death of 5-month-old – MLive.com

Police: Flint man admits to kicking 5-month-old Mt. Morris Township boy – ABC 12 News (press release)

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13abc Action News

DEFIANCE, Ohio (WTVG) – The Defiance County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a young child. On Monday someone filed a complaint with social services that raised a number of concerns. “The report was the a child had been born to this couple at their residence located on Arrowsmith Rd …

FOX 5 Atlanta

NEWNAN, Ga. – Police are investigating the tragic death of a 3-month-old boy in Newnan last week. On Wednesday, March 28, Newnan Police were called to 77 Spence Avenue around 10 a.m. in reference to a baby not breathing. EMS had already responded to the home. Upon arrival, officers said the …

Mother, boyfriend charged in death of 3 month-old baby – CBS46 News Atlanta

Infant Thrown on Couch Before Dying in Lebanon – OzarksFirst.com

Mother, boyfriend charged in infant’s suffocation death – WSB Atlanta

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The Coloradoan

Canales-Hernandez, 25, was found guilty on all charges: first-degree murder by a person in a position of trust of a victim under the age of 12; child abuse, knowingly or recklessly causing death; and attempting to influence a public servant. As Eighth Judicial District Judge Stephen Howard read each …

WANE

HUNTINGTON, Ind. (WANE) – Police have made an arrest in the death of a baby found unresponsive at a Huntington apartment this week. Just after 4:30 a.m. Sunday, Huntington Police responded to Cedar Run Apartments on a report of an unresponsive 2-month-old infant girl. The baby was taken to …

Seattle Times

Woman charged in infant’s death in Tennessee. Originally … (AP) — Police in Tennessee say a woman has been charged in the death of a 4-month-old girl. Clarksville … The statement says officers who answered a call about an unresponsive child Saturday night found the infant at a home in Clarksville.

Woman charged in infant’s death in Tennessee – WPSD Local 6

Clarksville Mother Charged In Baby’s Death – NewsChannel5.com

Woman charged in infant’s death in Tennessee – Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

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WATCH LIVE : Daviess Co. infant death news conference at 4:00

14 News WFIE Evansville

WATCH LIVE : Daviess Co. infant death news conference at 4:00. Monday, April 30th 2018, 12:13 pm PDT Monday, … Sheriff’s Office will hold a press conference Monday afternoon at 4:00 to discuss the death investigation of a three-month-old boy. Click here to watch it live. This is a developing story.

Daviess Co. Sheriff: father charged in connection with baby’s death – Tristatehomepage.com

Infant death investigation underway in Daviess Co. – 14 News WFIE Evansville

Man charged with murder in baby’s death – messenger-inquirer

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Lynchburg News and Advance

An Amherst County investigator spoke with Collier at her residence following a 911 call for an unresponsive infant March 6, according to a search warrant filed in Lynchburg Circuit Court on March 15. Kolton was pronounced dead at Lynchburg General Hospital shortly after the call, and Collier had “red …

New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio

Nationwide, some 3,500 infants die each year of sudden unexpected infant deaths. That’s roughly one baby for every 1,100 live births. New Jersey’s rate is lower, with one death per 1,700 births or about 60 infants per year. While these rates have declined, SIDS remains the third leading cause of infant …

New app provides newborn parents with vital information on proper sleep care – RU Daily Targum

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WAVY-TV

JAMES CITY COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — A man charged in the death of an infant in James City County entered an Alford plea in court this week. Bryan Timothy Arruda entered the plea for a murder charge on April 30. Another charge of abuse child, serious injury was nolle prossed, or withdrawn.

Tristatehomepage.com

Haaff was charged with murder Monday for his role in the death of three-month-old Collin Haaff. Sheriff’s deputies said the child was found unresponsive at a home on Wimsatt Court on April 20. The infant died last Thursday at a Louisville Hospital after suffering several injuries. Collin was laid to rest …

Man arrested for baby’s beating death in 2011

KTRK-TV

Police made a cold case murder arrest in the case of a baby beaten to death more than six years ago. … The autopsy determined Jamarian died of blunt force trauma to the head and neck. Investigators interviewed Kenneth Wayne Driver in 2011, but he denied any involvement in the infant’s death.

Harris County inmate charged after 2011 murder of newborn baby – CW39

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Infant death investigated: Experts warn about “Safe Sleep” for infants

WKBW-TV

CHEEKTOWAGA, N.Y. (WKBW) – Cheektowaga Police tell 7 Eyewitness News that the investigation continues into what appears to be the accidental death of a 7-month-old baby girl who was sleeping in bed with her mother. The death occurred Sunday on East End Avenue in Cheektowaga.

KTTS

CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – A mother in Clarksville, Tennessee has been charged after the death of her 4-month-old daughter. Officials said they responded to a home in the 200 block of Orleans Drive after 11:30 a.m. Saturday on a call of an unresponsive child. Officers found the 4-month-old not breathing.

New York Post

PETOSKEY, Mich. — A northern Michigan woman has been sentenced up to 22½ years in prison for suffocating her infant daughter, her second criminal case in the death of a child. The Petoskey News-Review reports 32-year-old Lisa Rae Bryan learned her punishment on Tuesday in Emmet County …

Alanson woman sentenced to prison for infant daughter’s death – Petoskey News-Review

Emmet County Mother Sentenced to Prison for Baby’s Death – 9&10 News

Woman gets prison sentence for infant daughter’s death – Petoskey News-Review

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MyStatesman.com

Brody’s death was ruled accidental by the medical examiner. Harrison said that Brody choked on a mitten, though prosecutors suggested during trial that the baby may actually have been sleeping on a couch or bed when he suffocated. The defense suggested that Harrison’s actions were driven by panic …

Day care operator sentenced to 20 years in infant death case – Austin American-Statesman

Georgetown day care owner gets 20 years in death of 5-month-old – KXAN.com

Former daycare owner sentenced to over 20 years in prison for choking death of infant – FOX 7 Austin

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Brownsville Herald

PHARR — Pharr police are investigating the death of an infant found early Friday morning in a house in the 20th block of North Fir Street. Pharr police spokesman Sgt. Michael Mendoza said a call for service came in at approximately 8 a.m., and he called the investigation “preliminary.” Police did not …

KCRG

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) – A daycare provider in Iowa City is now charged in the death of a seven month old baby. Police say 49-year-old Wendy Young was caring for the baby in her home last October when it was found unresponsive. A doctor declared the seven-month-old dead at the hospital.

Infant died of neglect after daycare operator drank 10 beers, authorities say – FOX 61

Infant died of neglect after daycare operator drank 10 beers, authorities say – Fox News

Daycare owner is arrested after baby in her care dies of neglect and she admits drinking TEN … – Daily Mail

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New York Times

A nurse attending to a child in Dan-Mazadou, in southeastern Niger. Of the countries studied, Niger saw the strongest response to the routine administration of antibiotics. The regimen prevented one in four deaths among children aged 1 to 5 months.CreditBoureima Hama/Agence France-Presse …

Fox11online.com

SHEBOYGAN (WLUK) — Sheboygan police are investigating the death of a one-year-old boy. Police say they were called to the 600 block of N. 27th Street Tuesday around 2:00 p.m. for an unresponsive child. The infant was taken to the hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy is pending.

Sheboygan Police: Unresponsive infant pronounced dead – WTMJ-TV (press release) (blog)

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South Bend Tribune

Resources are being devoted to the problem for a good reason: The county’s infant mortality rate — the ratio of the number of deaths in the first year of life per 1,000 live births — was 8.2 percent from 2012 through 2016. The state’s rate for that five-year period was 7.1 percent. The national rate for 2016, …

Republican & Herald

SHENANDOAH — State police are investigating the Sunday morning death of an infant on South Grant Street. Authorities were called to the home at 26 S. Grant St. around 6:55 a.m. and found a 5-month-old boy deceased. Schuylkill County Deputy Coroner Joseph S. Pothering said he pronounced the …

Police investigating infant death in Schuylkill County – Allentown Morning Call

Police investigating infant death in Shenandoah – PA home page

Police Investigating Death of an Infant in Schuylkill County – wnep.com

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WOODTV.com

FAIRPLAIN TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — No one will face charges in the death of a 1-year-old girl in Montcalm County. A sergeant with the Michigan State Police confirms the prosecutor has declined filing charges in connection to the incident on Feb. 21 in Fairplain Township, near Sheridan. Troopers …

10News

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) – Police are investigating the death of a child at a Tierrasanta home Tuesday. San Diego Police responded to the 3100 Block of Minuteman St. just before 11 a.m. to reports of a four-month-old child not breathing. When paramedics arrived, they began CPR on the infant.

Police investigate baby’s death at home in Tierrasanta – fox5sandiego.com

Infant dies in Tierrasanta, investigation underway – CBS News 8 – San Diego, CA News Station … – CBS 8 San Diego

Infant dies in Tierrasanta, investigation underway – AM 760 KFMB

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Infant death investigation in Knightdale connected to case of couple previously charged with incest

WTVD-TV

The infant death investigation in Knightdale is connected to a father and daughter who lived at the home and were previously charged for having an incestuous relationship. Bennett Pladl, a 7-month-old baby, was found dead at a home on Earlston Court after a welfare check Thursday morning. Bennett …

Knightdale police investigating infant’s death – WRAL.com

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Iowa City Press Citizen

The Iowa City Police have charged a woman with neglect after a 7-month-old died in her care. On Oct. 18, 2017, daycare provider Wendy D. Young, 49, drank 10-12 cans of beer before watching an infant at her home in east Iowa City, police allege. When police arrived at Young’s house, they found the …

Iowa City day care provider faces prison after infant death – The Gazette: Eastern Iowa Breaking News and Headlines

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Report: Couple accused of incest, their infant dead in apparent multi-state murder-suicide

CBS News

Police in three states are investigating the apparent murder-suicide deaths of a father and daughter accused of incest, their infant son, and a man reported to be the woman’s adoptive father. Police in Knightdale, N.C. say they responded to a home around 9 a.m. where Steven Pladl, 45, and his biological …

Father, daughter and baby they had together dead in multi-state homicide, suicide – WTVD-TV

North Carolina couple accused of incest, their infant dead in apparent multi-state murder-suicide – wivb.com

Report: Infant death at NC home of accused incest couple linked to Conn., NY shootings – CBS News

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Valley News Live

WEST FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) – In just the past week, Valley News Live has told you about some childhood deaths. We wanted to check into one that’s been an open investigation for years now—in our own backyard. Nearly three years after the death of a six-month-old in West Fargo, that …

MyCentralJersey.com

HIGHLAND PARK – A 14-year-old borough girl has been charged in connection with the death of her newborn baby boy found Monday in Highland Park, according to Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew C. Carey. Carey said the girl has been charged with an act of juvenile delinquency for an offense, …

Girl, 14, Charged In Death Of Newborn Son In Highland Park – Patch.com

14-year-old mom charged after baby found dead outside New Jersey home – wtkr.com

Yet another baby found dead — this time, in Highland Park – New Jersey 101.5 FM Radio

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Knightdale Police investigate infant death, parents are father and daughter

Spectrum News

KNIGHTDALE, N.C. — Police are actively investigating after an infant was found dead Thursday morning. Police say they found the child during a welfare check at a home on Earlston Court in Knightdale. Arrest warrants say the child’s biological parents are father and daughter. Katie Pladl, 20, and …

Las Vegas Review-Journal

A 10-month-old boy found dead inside his southwest valley home last year died from natural causes, according to the Clark County coroner’s office. Michael Taulanga’s mother called police on Sept. 7 after she discovered the boy was not breathing. Las Vegas abuse and neglect detectives investigated …

FOX 61

NEW MILFORD — Police said the death of a baby in North Carolina is connected to the New Milford double homicide that took place Thursday morning. A North Carolina man accused of impregnating his biological daughter is believed to have killed her, their infant son, and her adoptive father before …

New Milford double homicide, NY suicide tied to baby’s death in North Carolina – WFSB

The Latest: Connecticut Double Slaying Linked to Baby Death – U.S. News & World Report

Deadly New Milford Shooting, NY Suicide Connected To Killing Of Baby In North Carolina – Hartford Courant

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SFGate

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A 20-year-old woman and her adoptive father were shot and killed inside a pickup truck Thursday, and the suspect was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot in a case connected to the slaying of an infant. The suspect was identified as 45-year-old Steven Pladl, the father of …

2 slain in Connecticut case linked to N. Carolina baby death – Fox News

2 slain in Connecticut case linked to N. Carolina baby death – WTOP

The Latest: Connecticut double slaying linked to baby death – SFGate

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The Herald Bulletin

ANDERSON — Law enforcement officials are awaiting medical reports as part of an investigation of suspicious deaths of two infants in Madison County over the past two months. The Anderson Police Department is investigating the death of Harlan Haines, 18 months old, on Feb. 24; and the Madison …

wiley.com

Andrea Porzionato, Veronica Macchi, Raffaele De Caro. Section of Anatomy, Department of Neurosciences, University of Padova, Italy. Running title: Chemoreceptors and SIDS. Key words: Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Carotid Body, Retrotrapezoid Nucleus,. Prematurity, Nicotine, Chemoreceptors …

The Physiological Society – Wiley

The pathogenesis of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) has been ascribed to an underlying biological vulnerability to stressors during a critical period of development. This paper reviews the main data in the literature supporting the role of central (e.g. retrotrapezoid nucleus, serotoninergic raphe …

KWCH

The Wellington Police Department says it is investigating the death of a 7-month old child from Oxford. Police say the infant was taken to the Sumner Regional Medical Center in Wellington on April 1 because she wasn’t breathing. They say the child was taken to the local hospital by private vehicle.

NECN

Police are investigating the death of an infant in Hudson, Massachusetts on Tuesday morning. The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said Hudson police responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive infant on Church Street around 7:49 a.m. The child was taken to an area hospital and pronounced …

DA’s Office Investigating Infant Death – U.S. News & World Report

DA’s office investigating infant death – Seattle Times

Infant death case hinges on changed cause of death – Press Herald

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Boston Herald

HUDSON — The Middlesex District Attorney’s office is investigating the death of an infant in Hudson. Hudson police department officers responded to a … The Office of The Chief Medical Examiner is determining the cause and manner of the infant’s death. State police and the district attorney’s office are …

WVXU

Cincinnati’s annual infant mortality report indicates Hamilton County rates continue to improve, but still remain high. Cradle Cincinnati’s 2018 report, released Thursday, finds 97 babies died in 2017 before their first birthdays. The agency says the numbers have been improving over the past five years, …

Fox 2 Detroit

Another EMT unit responded but the infant, I’Nayah Wright-Trussel, died later that day. The girl’s family filed a lawsuit alleging Thomas told dispatch she didn’t want to be on the scene for “10 minutes doing CPR, you know how these families get.” On June 24, 2015, Thomas was discharged from her …

Deseret News

An infant was killed in a multi-vehicle collision at the intersection of the Mountain View Corridor and Rosecrest Road in Herriman on Monday, April 9, 2018. A 2-year-old was also hospitalized in critical condition, while three adults were in critical condition and two more were in serious condition.

Police identify driver in crash that killed infant, injured toddler and 5 adults – KSL.com

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NBC Boston

The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said Hudson police responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive infant on Church Street around 7:49 a.m. The child was taken to an area hospital and pronounced dead. State police assigned to the district attorney’s office are investigating, as is the standard …

Loudoun Now

John Miller IV, the man sentenced to 12 months in jail for two misdemeanor convictions in connection with the death of a Lansdowne infant, has been granted work release. The request was made by Miller’s attorney following the trial in February. Circuit Court Judge Douglas Fleming authorized …

KWCH

Eyewitness News has learned the bond for a man accused in his infant son’s death has been set at $500,000. Police say Dorl Gwyn told them he was shadow boxing and roughhousing with his six-month-old son, Jazz, when the baby stopped breathing. Gwyn and the boy’s mom rushed the baby to the …

WJHG-TV

(WJHG/WECP) – The trial of a man charged with murder in the death of his two-month old son is underway in Walton County. In December 2015, Harold Bielec Jr. call 9-1-1 saying his son was unresponsive and not breathing. Emergency personnel responded to the Raceway store in Mossy Head and …

Rhode Island KIDS COUNT

in the U.S. — congenital malformations, low birthweight, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), maternal complications, and unintentional injuries. — account for 56% of all infant deaths with congenital malformations as the leading cause of infant deaths.3 While infant mortality has declined nationally.

Midwest Communication

KALAMAZOO (WKZO AM/FM) — A Kalamazoo man charged with killing a baby has been bound over to stand trial for felony murder. 11-month old Jaceyon Downey was left in the care of the suspect’s girlfriend, a baby sitter. It was Bryant Rolland who alerted her to the fact that there seemed to be …

Community Idea Stations

University of Virginia researchers say babies who die during their sleep while being watched by someone other than their parents were often placed in unsafe sleep positions. A new study urges more awareness to prevent Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Dr. Rachel Moon says their research reviewed …

Dothan Eagle

Toles confessed during an interview with the Ozark Police Department in February 2017 that he did cause harm to the baby in order to get the infant to stop crying. Toles told investigators he was playing video games on his phone until he picked up the child and struck the infant’s head against the stairs …

Athens NEWS

Hazlett’s attorney, Jim A. Wallace of Athens, said that Hazlett “adamantly denies” having “anything to do” with the death of her daughter. He also argued that she was the subject of a “grab bag indictment,” arguing that the state did not have strong enough evidence to support conviction on any one of the …

Newnan Times-Herald

The mother and boyfriend were reportedly aware of the dangers that having a pillow in the crib and placing the baby on his stomach could cause, prior to the death, according to Cooper. During the initial investigation, Coweta County Coroner Richard Hawk believes the cause of death is suffocation and …

WSOC Charlotte

ROCK HILL, S.C. – Police in Rock Hill arrested a mother and father after their 2-year-old child died Tuesday morning. Officers said they responded just before 10 a.m. Tuesday to a home on Williams Street after getting a call about a 2-year-old who wasn’t breathing. Paramedics and firefighters were …

‘It makes me sick’: Rock Hill 2-year-old found dead; parents charged with neglect – The Herald

Parents Charged After 2-Year-Old Dies in Rock Hill Home – WLTX.com

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WBAY

(WBAY) – Sheboygan Police say a one-year-old boy died after climbing out of a portable crib and becoming entangled in window blind cords. Police say the child was with a woman who cares for her children and other children on a daily basis. The emergency call came in Tuesday afternoon. The child …

Sheboygan police investigating baby’s death – The Sheboygan Press

Death investigation of one year old child – WGBA-TV

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News 12 Westchester

A grieving father and his attorney are demanding answers following the death of a toddler in Mamaroneck on Saturday in a disturbing domestic incident that led police to shoot the child’s mother. News 12 has learned that the death of 2-year-old Gabriella Maria came just one day after police were given a …

Mamaroneck child death, police stabbing, mom shooting: AG notified as cops investigate – The Journal News | LoHud.com

Girl Dies and Mother Is Shot After Attacking Officers, Police Say – New York Times

Timeline: What led up to Mamaroneck girl’s death – The Journal News | LoHud.com

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1 child death is too many; abuse and neglect must stop now

Orlando Sentinel

In the first three months of this year, the deaths of seven children in Orange, Osceola and Seminole counties were reported to the state Department of Children and families. While these numbers are fewer compared with the same period last year, one death is too many. The hard truth is more children …

WHBL Sheboygan

SHEBOYGAN, Wis. (WHBL) – Sheboygan Police say the death of a 1 year old boy Tuesday afternoon was an accident. Investigators say the child was with a babysitter, and had been put in a crib to take a nap, but managed to crawl out of the crib and suffocated after getting tangled in cords attached to …

WABC-TV

Authorities continue to investigate the death of a two-year-old girl in Mamaroneck after police shot the child’s mother during an incident at their home on … They had with them, according to the father’s attorney, a family court order to obtain custody of the child from the mother, identified as 28-year-old …

Mother Refused Court Order To Hand Over Child Day Before Death, Lawyer Says – Mamaroneck Daily Voice

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WAVY-TV

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — Two people charged in the death of a 2-year-old girl in Norfolk were denied bond during a hearing Monday morning. Shelby Love and John Hardee were arrested after the child was found unresponsive at a home in the East Ocean View section of the city. The child was taken …

Before she died, 2-year-old Norfolk girl was scalded so badly her skin started to come off – Virginian-Pilot

Horrific details in court reveal tragic death of Norfolk 2-year-old – wtkr.com

Couple charged in infant’s death back in court for bond hearing – 13newsnow.com WVEC

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WNDU-TV

Mary Beth Bonaventura blasted the Holcomb administration for cuts and management changes that she said would “…all but ensure children will die.” In February of this year, federal figures showed a spike in child abuse deaths in the Hoosier state. Around here, the 2011 death of Tramelle Sturgis still …

WATE 6 On Your Side

(WKRN) – Police in Clarksville charged a 25-year-old mother with criminal homicide after her child was pronounced dead Saturday night. Police were called to a home on Orleans Drive just after 11:30 p.m. Saturday for an emergency call about an unresponsive child. Emergency responders found a …

Mother of four-month-old charged with criminal homicide in child’s death – WKRN News 2

Clarksville mother charged with homicide in infant daughter’s death – Clarksville Now

Clarksville Mother Charged In Baby’s Death – NewsChannel5.com

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CBS 8 San Diego

SAN DIEGO (NEWS 8) – San Diego police are on scene investigating the death of a bay at a home in the 3100 block of Minuteman Street in Tierrasanta. There are no immediate indications that the death is suspicious. the age and the gender of the child are not immediately available. This is a developing …

San Diego Police investigating child’s death in Tierrasanta – 10News

Police investigate baby’s death at home in Tierrasanta – fox5sandiego.com

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Nunatsiaq News

Baby Amelia Annie Leah Keyookta, aged about four and a half months, died on July 29, 2015 while in the care of the Department of Family Services. Dr. Christopher Milroy, a medical examiner, testified at a coroner’s inquest yesterday that, following an autopsy, he cannot determine the cause of death.

KRLD 1080 – Radio.com

Testimony begins today in Weatherford in the trial of a mother whose two children died in a hot car last year.

Washington Post

SALT LAKE CITY — In a story April 19 about a boy from a polygamous family who died, The Associated Press reported erroneously the family’s religious affiliation. The family is fundamentalist Mormon, but do not belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. A corrected …

Child of Utah family with TV show dies after house fire – My Twin Tiers.com

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USA TODAY

The Indian government approved a new measure on Saturday that will prescribe capital punishment for anyone convicted of raping children under the age of 12. The move came after Prime Minister Narendra Modi called an emergency Cabinet meeting in the wake of a series of cases that sparked …

India introduces death penalty for child rapists – BBC News

India seeks death penalty for child rapists – CNN

India approves death penalty for child rapists – euronews

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WTOP

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Police say a 2-year-old boy whose polygamous family is featured on a reality TV show has died following a fire in a southeastern Utah home. The Deseret News reports Adonija Foster died of smoke inhalation Saturday after a fire ignited in the room where he was sleeping.

Correction: Polygamous Family-Child’s Death story – Miami Herald

Child from ‘Three Wives, One Husband’ dies after house fire – Page Six

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Valley News Live

Only Shortman and the three joint children were listed as tenants. Hovde said she recalled a single noise complaint coming from their apartment since they moved in. A local pharmacy worker told police, on the day Winter became sick right before his death, Shortman came to fill a prescription and …

UPDATED – Father charged with murder in child’s death in Breckenridge – Wahpeton Daily News

Father charged with murder in death of 3-year-old western Minn. boy – Brainerd Dispatch

Father charged with murder in death of 3-year-old western Minn. boy – Bemidji Pioneer

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Seattle Times

HASTINGS, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota foster mother and her boyfriend have been charged with manslaughter and murder in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was in the woman’s care. Zayden Lawson was fatally beaten in June, authorities said. Zeporia Fortenberry, 31, has been charged with …

Minnesota foster mother, boyfriend charged in child’s death – Minneapolis Star Tribune

Foster mom, boyfriend charged in toddler’s death – KARE11.com

Murder Charges Filed In Death Of 3-Year-Old Eagan Foster Child – Patch.com

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Chicago Tribune

Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by India’s cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl. In an emergency meeting, India’s cabinet approved an amendment to the law …

India seeks death penalty for child rapists – KEYT

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Seattle Times

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A Des Moines woman has been charged for the death of her 6-month-old son. Court records say 33-year-old Latyia Johnson was arrested Monday and is charged with child endangerment resulting in death. The records don’t list the name of an attorney who could comment …

The Guardian

The Indian government has moved to impose the death penalty for people convicted of raping a child under the age of 12 to combat a rise in crimes involving sexual violence. An ordinance was approved by prime minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet and sent to the president for approval, the Press Trust of …

Washington Post

NEW DELHI — Offenders who rape girls under 12 may now be subject to the death penalty in India, according to an ordinance passed by India’s cabinet Saturday after a nationwide furor over the rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl. In an emergency meeting, India’s cabinet approved an amendment to …

India approves death penalty for child rapists – Reuters

India approves death penalty for rape of young children – NBCNews.com

India to introduce death penalty for child rapists amid spike in crimes against women – Evening Standard

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Norman Transcript

Kohr also told police on Friday prior to her arrest that the mother’s “actions of not putting the tube back in when told to would contribute to the death of the infant.” Smith remains in Vigo County Jail with bail set at $75,000. Lisa Trigg can be reached at 812-231-4254 or at lisa.trigg@tribstar.com. Follow her …

Rediff.com

In case of rape of a girl under 16 years, the minimum punishment has been increased from 10 years to 20 years, extendable to imprisonment for rest of life, which means jail term till the convict’s ‘natural life’. | President signs ordinance on death penalty for child rape.

MSN.com

India’s government on Saturday approved the death penalty for child rapists, after the gang rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl and a series of other horrific sexual assaults caused nationwide outrage.

Seattle Times

FERGUS FALLS, Minn. (AP) — Police in Fergus Falls say they’re investigating the death of a child who was unconscious and not breathing when brought to a local hospital. Authorities say the circumstances surrounding the child’s death on Monday appear to be suspicious. Police on Tuesday declined …

Death Of Fergus Falls Child Investigated As Suspicious – CBS Minnesota / WCCO

Fergus Falls police investigate suspicious death of child – KMSP-TV

Fergus Falls police investigate suspicious death of child – Minneapolis Star Tribune

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CBS Boston / WBZ

The girl died and the boy is being treated for non-life threatening injuries. Worcester District Attorney Joseph Early said only that a man and a woman are facing charges. Their names were not released. Sources told WBZ-TV chief investigative reporter Cheryl Fiandaca that the children’s parents have …

Disturbing Details Emerge in Death of 6-Year-Old Girl – NBC10 Boston

Fitchburg couple charged in assault that left girl dead – The Boston Globe

Investigation into death of 6-year-old Fitchburg girl continues – Boston 25 News

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Seattle Times

DICKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Days after a missing 5-year-old Tennessee boy’s father was charged with homicide, the boy’s mother has been charged in connection with the death. News outlets report that 27-year-old Krystal Nicole Daniels was arrested Monday night on charges of aggravated child neglect …

Chattanooga Times Free Press

DICKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Days after a missing 5-year-old Tennessee boy’s father was charged with homicide, the boy’s mother has been charged in connection with the toddler’s death. News outlets report that 27-year-old Krystal Nicole Daniels was arrested Monday night on charges of aggravated child …

Joe Clyde’s mom present while dad beat him to death, tried to cover up murder: affidavit – WZTV

The death of 5-year-old Joe Clyde Daniels brings focus to understanding autism – The Tennessean

Joe Clyde Daniels’ mother admits she was present when the boy was killed, court documents state – The Tennessean

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NBC2 News

One child has died as a result of flu-related causes in the past week, bringing the total number of child deaths related to flu up to eight for the 2017-2018 flu season, the Health Department confirms. The data showed a steady decrease in numbers recently, and over the past week, flu numbers were at …

Wahpeton Daily News

The Breckenridge Police Department is investigating the death of a 3 year old child. A release from Police Chief Kris Karlgaard states officers and Ambulance Services, Inc. responded to a 911 call at 10:11 a.m. Tuesday, April 10 at the Park Manor apartments in Breckenridge for a 3-year-old child who …

UPDATE: Death of 3-year-old boy being investigated as a homicide – Valley News Live

Death of child under investigation in Breckenridge – KFGO

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Bristol Herald Courier (press release) (blog)

Judge declines to remove prosecutors from child death case … The state medical examiner’s office concluded the girl was a victim of battered child syndrome, and the Maine Department of Health and Human … They later acknowledged taking turns beating the girl before her death in late February.

Wyoming Tribune

Sandburg said the boy’s death was almost certainly not one caused by a short fall, as the defense claimed, and there was no evidence that KT had drowned in his bathtub, or even that he had ever taken a bath that night. And that left jurors with only the prosecution’s theory: that Sawicki shook her son …

NECN

Police are investigating the death of an infant in Hudson, Massachusetts on Tuesday morning. The Middlesex District Attorney’s Office said Hudson police responded to a 911 call reporting an unresponsive infant on Church Street around 7:49 a.m. The child was taken to an area hospital and pronounced …

Authorities investigate death of infant in Hudson – The Boston Globe

DA’s office investigating Hudson infant death – Boston.com

Authorities investigating baby’s death in Hudson – Wicked Local Hudson

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KSTP

April 14, 2018 02:54 PM. The Ramsey County Medical Examiner’s Office has determined the cause and manner of death of a child found not breathing at his Breckenridge home Tuesday, April 10. According to a release, the medical examiner determined the 3-year-old boy, who lived in the Park Manor …

Australian Institute of Health and Welfare

While child mortality rates in New South Wales have declined significantly over the 15 years between 2001 and 2015, there is still a great deal of geographic variation in the number and rate of child deaths. This report presents information on the geographic distribution of child deaths across New South …

AL.com

Detectives from Mobile’s homicide unit are investigating the death of a child at apartment complex in West Mobile Friday. Detectives are still investigating the death of the 8 year-old child and have not yet confirmed if it’s being treated as a homicide or not, according to police. The child was discovered just …

Homicide Detectives Investigating Deaths of Mother and Daughter in Fort Worth – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth

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WJHL

The family home is now a crime scene, because investigators believe that’s where the child was killed. Agents from the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation have been looking at every inch of the house, the family cars, even the garbage. About 50 searchers spent the day in the woods, searching for the …

Emotional funeral for little girl – Herald live

Devonte Hart family crash: Deceptions, missed signals preceded deaths – OregonLive.com

Tourists find a body in the ocean near where Hart family’s SUV plunged off a cliff – Washington Post

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WKRN News 2

DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) – Neighbors and friends of the Daniels family are overwhelmed by the news that Joseph Ray Daniels is accused of killing his little boy, Joe Clyde. Lindsay Estes knows the family and their children well. Her son, Kyle and little Joseph went to school together. She is …

ABC Local

New South Wales Labor is calling for the case of a Hunter Valley girl who was tortured and murdered to be examined by the state’s child death review team. Detectives found the 12-year-old girl known as CN dead in her bed in her Hunter Valley home in September 2015. The Supreme Court heard she …

Toledo Blade

A central-city Toledo man is charged with murder in the death of a 1-year-old girl. Joshua Herron, 30, of the 900 block of 14th Street has been charged in killing of Serenity Hunter-Davis. He was previously charged with felonious assault and endangering children, both second-degree felonies. Mr. Herron …

WREX-TV

A Rockford man is sentenced to 180 days in jail for his role in the death of a 2-year-old, according to Winnebago County court records. Larry Bentley pleaded guilty today for endangering the life of a child involving death. On Dec. 5, 2013, Tahlia Vuttera died at SwedishAmerican Hospital. Authorities at …

New York Times

An autopsy revealed that Bella died from blunt force trauma to her abdomen, and the medical examiner ruled her death a homicide. Two law enforcement officials, who had knowledge of the case but were not authorized to speak about it, said the girl had injuries on her lower body that were consistent …

Child abuse suspected in death of 3-year-old Queens girl – amNY

Child abuse suspected in death of 3-year-old girl found lifeless in Queens apartment – New York Daily News

Stepdad charged with killing 3-year-old girl after brutal beating in Queens apartment – New York Daily News

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Alton Telegraph

DICKSON, Tenn. (AP) — Days after a 5-year-old Tennessee boy was reported missing, prompting a massive search, the child’s father was charged with his murder, authorities said Saturday. Joseph Ray Daniels, 28, was arrested and charged with one count of criminal homicide, the Tennessee Bureau …

Father charged in death of missing Tennessee 5-year-old – wreg.com

Tennessee father killed his 5-year-old autistic son then hid his body, police say – USA TODAY

Update: Father arrested on charge of murder in death of 5-year-old Dickson County boy – The Tennessean

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Atlanta Journal Constitution

While Cassius Norris was being buried, his parents remained in jail on second-degree murder charges. Loved ones gathered at the Higgins Hillcrest Chapel at 3 p.m. Wednesday to pay their respects to the 3-month-old, who died March 28 in his Spence Avenue home. His parents —Adam Brady, 30, …

U.S. News & World Report

Authorities said Saturday that Joseph Ray Daniels was arrested and charged with one count of criminal homicide. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says authorities determined that the boy, Joe Clyde Daniels, was killed either Tuesday night or early Wednesday in the family’s residence. TBI says …

ABC News

The co-owner of a Kansas water park is scheduled to appear in court today to face criminal charges stemming from the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy on the Verrückt waterslide, the world’s tallest. Prosecutors allege that Jeffrey Henry, 62, co-owner of the Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, …

Co-owner of water park company arrested over child’s death – 6abc.com

Co-owner of Schlitterbahn arrested in Texas in connection with child’s death – WIBW News Now

UPDATE: Family Of Child Killed At Schlitterbahn Water Park Releases Statement – Houston Public Media

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Science Daily

Researchers measured the economic costs of child sexual abuse by calculating health care costs, productivity losses, child welfare costs, violence/crime costs, special education costs and suicide death costs. They estimated the total lifetime economic burden of child sexual abuse in the United States to …

UPDATE: Kalamazoo couple guilty in child’s death – WNWN-FM

Alligators, snakes biased jurors against mom in Missouri child death case, court says – Kansas City Star

Kansas House unanimously passes bill to release information after child abuse deaths – Kansas City Star

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ABC News

The mother of two small children found dead after being left strapped in car seats in a vehicle tried to blame their deaths on someone else who was supposed to be watching them, authorities said Wednesday. A narrative of events released by the Pinal County sheriff’s office says there is no proof for …

Authorities: Mom tried to shift blame for deaths of children – WTOP

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Authorities: Superior mom tried to shift blame for deaths of children

ABC15 Arizona

SUPERIOR, AZ – The mother of two small children found dead after being left strapped in car seats in a vehicle tried to blame their deaths on someone else who was supposed to be watching them, authorities said Wednesday. A narrative of events released by the Pinal County sheriff’s office says there is …

Mom arrested after her baby, toddler found dead, strapped into their car seats – USA TODAY

Mom arrested in deaths of baby, toddler found in car seats – ABC News

An Arizona Mom Was Arrested After Her Baby and Toddler Were Found Dead in Their Car Seats – TIME

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Human Rights Watch (press release)

On March 21, Sorong’s deputy police chief, Chandra Ismawanto, told Human Rights Watch that the police assessment of “alcohol poisoning” as the cause of Ayomi’s death was “controversial” and that police now suspected Ayomi died from a combination of excessive alcohol consumption and a mob …

CTV Vancouver Island

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. – Port Alberni RCMP say they are treating the death of a six-year-old child as “suspicious.” The Mounties say the child died March 13. They believe there are people with information regarding the death and are asking them to come forward.

Port Alberni RCMP say six-year-old child’s death considered ‘suspicious’ – News1130

Child’s death in Port Alberni being treated as suspicious, RCMP say – CBC.ca

Port Alberni RCMP say six-year-old child’s death considered ‘suspicious’ – Nanaimo News NOW (press release)

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KGO-TV

Prosecutors charged that Henry and other employees of the water park attempted to hide from investigators documents detailing injuries to at least 13 people on the 168-foot-tall Verrückt waterslide leading up to Caleb Schwab’s death on Aug. 7, 2016. The injuries included whiplash, slipped spinal disks …

6abc.com

Prosecutors charged that Henry and other employees of the waterpark attempted to hide from investigators documents detailing injuries to at least 14 people on the 168-foot-tall Verrückt waterslide leading up to Caleb Schwab’s death on Aug. 7, 2016. The injuries included whiplash, jaw bone fractures, …

More Charges Filed In Child’s Death At Schlitterbahn Water Park In Kansas City, Kansas – KMUW

Kansas Amusement Park Co-Owner, Water Slide Designer Indicted in 10-Year-Old Boy’s Death – KTLA

A boy was decapitated on a waterslide. Now the ride’s ‘visionary’ creator faces a murder charge. – Washington Post

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Chicago Sun-Times

He was his mother’s sixth child and the third to be born substance-exposed, according to the Child Death Report submitted to Governor Pat Quinn and the General Assembly in January 2013. None of Lavandis’ siblings were in his mother’s care and he was shuttled off to foster care. In December of that …

WWMT-TV

Longenecker and Ballinger were both convicted of first-degree child abuse. The involuntary manslaughter verdict against Ballinger is shocking to people who know her personally. One old friend believes Ballinger played just as big of a role in the abuse, and eventual death of her baby, as Longenecker.

Estonian news – Postimees

An 11-year-old pupil was brought to the Tallinn Children’s Hospital early this year and the medics were initially unable to diagnose her serious condition. Closer studies revealed as a minor shock that the girl had terminal HIV or AIDS, which claimed her life despite the medics’ efforts. It was too late.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

Provides ways to navigate questions about death, funerals, and memorials for children. This fact sheet discusses this challenging, but manageable, task and includes sample questions and answers to help guide discussions.