An Oregon couple involved in online pornography has been arrested on charges of murder by abuse after an autopsy determined their 7-week-old baby boy died of starvation.
Douglas County sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday that 26-year-old Stephen Michael Williams Jr. and 21-year-old Amanda Marie Hancock were arrested Tuesday at their home in Glendale. They were to be arraigned Wednesday.
A probable-cause affidavit filed by deputies says the parents told investigators they did pornography, which involved the mother self-lactating while others paid to watch online. The two also said they fed the baby milk but never took him to a doctor, despite signs he was losing weight.
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This Tuesday, Feb. 17, 2015 booking photo provided by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office shows Stephen Williams Jr., 26, of Glendale, Ore., and Amanda Hancock. Williams and Hancock were arrested Tuesday at their home in Glendale, Ore., on charges of murder by abuse after their seven-week-old baby boy, Data Hancock, was determined to have died of starvation. | AP Photo/Douglas County Sheriff’s Office
A Missouri mother and grandmother are both in jail on charges of child abuse after a toddler was found badly burned.
Katie Grimes, 25, was arrested last Saturday after hospital staff and police found a two-year-old toddler suffering from burns on twelve percent of her body, including her face and back. The child’s eyes were also swollen shut from contact with hot bleach.
Court documents obtained by The Huffington Post detail the alleged abuse, and how both she and the suspect’s mother, 51-year-old Karen Wynn, allegedly attempted to lie to authorities. The details may be disturbing to some.
The sheriff of a small county in northeast North Carolina says he is “disgusted” by the parents of six men who are accused of sexually abusing their sister for nearly a decade, at a private family compound.
“I blame the parents for this,” Perquimans County Sheriff Eric Tilley told The Huffington Post on Tuesday. “It’s your responsibility as a parent to teach [your children] right and wrong. When you see a child doing something that is totally wrong and you don’t correct them, then the child thinks it’s OK.”
Tilley said his deputies charged the six brothers, ranging in age from 19 to 27, on May 6, with a number of crimes related to the alleged sexual abuse of their 16-year-old sister. The sheriff said the alleged abuse began when the girl was 4 years old and continued until she was almost 15.
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Jackson family mug shots. (Photo: Perquimans County Sheriff’s Office)
Manslaughter charges were filed against three people accused of killing a 3-year-old Florida boy by wrapping him tightly in a blanket and tying the ends as a form of discipline, a Lee County Sheriff’s lieutenant said on Wednesday.
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Defendant Donella Trainor, a friend of the boy’s grandmother, told investigators she had disciplined her own grandchildren that way, using a technique all three adults knew as “the wrap,” Lieutenant Larry King said.He said she pinned the boy’s arms to his side and rolled him in a king-sized blanket.
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“There were six layers of cloth over this child. The loose ends would be folded over his head and feet and tied into a knot, all in an effort to prevent the child from moving,” King said. “You could use a mummy reference.”
The boy, Michael Lee McMullen, screamed and pleaded to be released as Trainor wrapped him and put him in his crib for a nap on Saturday, the sheriff’s report said.
A Washington State mother is accused of trying to kill her baby because she thought the baby was trying to kill her.
Anna Murphy, 35, pleaded not guilty to assault charges Monday, according to The Bellingham Herald.
The baby’s father told authorities Murphy threw their daughter down and he found blood around the child’s mouth, according to KIRO-TV.
Investigators say Murphy told them she was thought the girl was trying to kill her, so she wanted to kill the child in self-defense. According to court documents obtained by The News Tribune, Murphy also said she was “having her first exorcism” and “she threw [the girl] on the ground because she thought she was traveling to another dimension and [Murphy] was trying to save her.”
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A Philadelphia woman is accused of posing as a nurse and assaulting a patient at a children’s hospital.
Ashley Delvalle, 24, allegedly walked into patients’ rooms at St. Christopher’s Hospital Tuesday, telling parents that she was a nurse assigned to perform examinations, CBS reported.
Police in Pennsylvania say Delvalle weighed one child, and inappropriately touched another child. In the second case, Delvalle allegedly told the boy’s mother that she was checking him for bed bugs, according to WPVI.
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Ashley Delvalle, 24, has been charged with assault.
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WEST JORDAN, Utah — A 6-year-old girl found dead in a canal near her home was sexually assaulted, and authorities are now searching for a suspect, police said Wednesday.
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Sierra Newbold, above, was found dead in a canal near her home less than an hour after her mother found she was missing from her bed. An autopsy has since determined that she was sexually assaulted before her death.
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