A ‘depraved’ pediatric nurse and foster carer who filmed himself sexually molesting two babies, has been jailed for 80 years. Michael William Lutts, 52, began the sickening abuse of a two-month-old boy from the first day he came under his care. Graphic court documents told how Lutts had groped the boy’s genitals while masturbating, videoing the whole event. He also abused an 11 month-old girl in his care. U.S. District Judge John Houston said the horrific crimes were ‘worse than a mass murderer shooting 20 people’ and the pedophile had victimized ‘the most fragile’ people in society as he sentenced him to 80 years in jail. READ MORE HERE

Girl hopes to receive cards from around the world

SCHENECTADY, New York —A 5-year-old New York girl who lost her family in a fire that was intentionally set has one wish this holiday season: Christmas cards from around the world. In 2013, Safyre Terry’s father and three younger siblings died in a fire caused by arson. Safyre was found in the debris next to her father, who used his body to shield her from the flames. Safyre suffered severe burns, and in the months following the fatal blaze she lost her right hand and left foot. Dodler took to Facebook to post a photo of Safyre standing next to the tree in the hopes of getting enough cards to fill the display.

Please send cards to:

Safyre
P.O. Box 6126
Schenectady NY 12306

Man hugged girl, 7, then killed her

Emma Watson Nowling took a quick break from soccer practice Thursday night to greet a man walking by the sidelines. “Little Emma went up and gave the guy a hug,” Emma’s soccer coach, Mario Scicluna, said. Later that night, that man, Timothy Nelson Obeshaw, shot 7-year-old Emma and her mother, 37-year-old Sharon Elizabeth Watson, in the parking lot of the Taylor Sportsplex before turning his 9mm pistol on himself, according to Taylor police. Authorities described Obeshaw as a family friend. READ MORE HERE

Grandmother Of Slain 7-YO Girl Speaks Out About Murderer

Counselors to help slain 7-year-old girl’s classmates

Girl, 7, Shot Dead by ‘Paranoid’ Family Friend in Taylor

Girl, 5, calls 911 after her ‘drunk’ mom drives into a pond

TN – A five-year-old Tennessee girl called 911 after her drunk mother drove their car into a pond while her three children were inside, police said. Officers found Shernette Fowler, 31, on Thursday under a tree on a farm in Donelson with her three children ages two, five and eight who were ‘wet, cold and crying,’ according to the affidavit. Police, who also found Fowler’s car partially submerged in the pond, said the mom smelled of alcohol, was slurring her speech and had bloodshot eyes. READ MORE HERE

Woman who claimed cousin was kidnapped admits killing the boy

ALBANY, N.Y. —A 20-year-old upstate New York woman has admitted strangling her cousin, 5, and then discarding his body along a road before calling in a false report that two masked intruders took him from their home, reports CBS New York. Tiffany Van Alstyne pleaded guilty Tuesday to second-degree murder for the killing of Kenneth White in the rural Albany County town of Berne. Police say her bogus 911 call Dec. 18, 2014, launched a search for the boy, who had been in her parents’ care. READ MORE HERE

A thug who carried out a ‘shocking campaign of violence’ which left his girlfriend’s six-month-old son with 32 broken bones has been jailed for 19 years. James Laidlaw, 22, had been in a relationship with Tiffany Hilton, 27, since January last year when he attacked the baby boy between February and May. A court heard the baby, who can’t be named for legal reasons, was taken to a walk-in medical centre by Hilton with suspected bronchiolitis on May 17 last year. READ MORE HERE

UPDATE on murder-suicide in Louisiana:
Father in Louisiana murder-suicide died of suspected drug overdose after he slit his wife and children’s throats: officials have stated. READ MORE HERE

LOUISIANA – Two young boys and their parents have been found dead in a possible murder-suicide at their home. Kelli Mata, 40, and her husband David Mata, 46, were found dead in their living room in Marrero, Louisiana, on Sunday morning by her 18-year-old daughter who was returning home from a hunting trip. She then discovered the bodies of two-year-old Liam Mata and brother four-year-old Caden Mata in separate bedrooms. The boys had been stabbed. READ MORE HERE

KANSAS CITY, KS – A gruesome investigation includes sickening suspicions that a father fed his 7-year-old son to pigs after beating him to death, a source close to the case says. Michael A. Jones, 44, is in the Wyandotte County Jail being held on an enormously high bond of $10 million. The charges are for aggravated assault with a firearm, aggravated battery and child abuse, but the bond is higher than for most murders. READ MORE HERE

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Alcohol is rapidly transported via placental blood flow from mother to fetus and is known to cause miscarriage and birth defects. Within two hours of maternal ingestion, fetal alcohol blood levels are similar to maternal alcohol blood levels. There is no established relationship between the amount of alcohol consumed and side effects sustained by the infant. This puzzling observation may reflect the maternal rate of alcohol breakdown via her liver.

It has been observed that alcohol consumed at any time during pregnancy may be associated with severe and permanent consequences. First trimester pregnancy alcohol ingestion is linked to the characteristic facial abnormalities of FAS as well as a reduction of intrauterine growth rate. Alcohol consumption during the second trimester also contributes to lower IQ, growth retardation in length and birth weight, as well as cognitive deficits of reading, spelling, and math. Third trimester alcohol consumption amplifies retardation in birth length and ultimate adult height potential.
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Man Killed Toddler By Placing His Foot on Her Chest and ‘Pressing Down’

A 25-year-old Hesperia man was convicted Thursday of killing a 1-year-old girl by placing his foot on her chest and applying pressure with his 230-pound frame, prosecutors said. Daniel Ruiz was found guilty on one count each of second-degree murder and assault on a child causing a death, according to a statement released Friday by the San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office. READ MORE HERE

(CNN) —The crying coming from under a block of asphalt sounded like it was from a cat to Angelica Blount. But it turned out to be an abandoned baby that police say was deliberately buried under debris along a Los Angeles area walking path. Blount was walking in Compton on Friday, when her sister Evangelina McCrary pointed the sound out to her. READ MORE HERE

Newborn in stable condition after being found ‘buried alive’

Newborn girl found buried alive rescued in Los Angeles

Newborn baby found buried alive near California bike path

NEW YORK — For a short time Monday afternoon, the Christmas manger at a New York City church might have been able to pass for the real thing: A newborn baby, with the umbilical cord still attached, was abandoned there. Now, New York City police are searching for whoever left the child. READ MORE HERE

San Diego police were investigating the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl, Anna Hernandez, whose partially decomposed body was found in a canyon area behind an apartment complex days after she went missing. The teen’s body was discovered last Wednesday late in the afternoon near the 2900 block of Market Street, San Diego Police Department officials said, according to the local television station. READ MORE HERE

WAKEFIELD, The Bronx — A 22-year-old woman was arrested for cutting a pregnant woman’s stomach open, taking her unborn baby and killing her, in the Wakefield area of the Bronx Friday afternoon, the NYPD said. The woman, 22, was stabbed multiple times by another woman around 2:30 p.m. on Monticello Avenue. She then cut the baby out of the pregnant woman’s stomach, according to Bronx councilman Andy King. READ MORE HERE

Pregnant Woman Killed in Stabbing in the Bronx

Pregnant Bronx Woman Fatally Stabbed, but Baby Survives