Father Chopped His Son, 9, To Death with a Hatchet

36-year-old Phillip Raymond Hernandez, from South Natomas, CA, was charged with the heinous murder of his 9-year-old son, Matthew Hernandez. According to The Sacramento Bee, when Matthew’s great-grandmother saw Hernandez wielding a hatchet, standing over the sleeping 9-year-old, she tried to intervene but was viciously knockedagainst the wall.  READ MORE HERE

Afghan police ‘sell weapons to Taliban, are addicted to drugs and kidnap and rape young boys’

Police in an area of Afghanistan where 109 British troops died and hundreds were wounded trying to secure peace are riddled with corruption, child abuse, drug taking, kidnap and murder, a devastating investigation by Panorama revealed last night. Weapons, ammunition and fuel paid for by UK taxpayers are being openly sold by Afghan officers – possibly to end-up with the Taliban – while senior police refuse to crackdown of the abuse of young boys by their officers. Some officers appear drug-addicted, others are kidnapping civilians for ransom while in the past five weeks, four boys suspected of having been used as ‘sex slaves’ have been shot – one in the face – while attempting to escape from police commanders believed to have abducted them from their families. Three have died. READ MORE HERE

Kids stabbed by mother’s boyfriend

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – A funeral for two El Paso County children stabbed to death in a murder-suicide last week will be held Friday. Sheriff’s spokesman Lt. Jeff Kramer said  22-year-old Ethan Courrau stabbed 1-year-old Scarlett Gallagher and 3-year-old Ryan Willhite in a mobile home before stabbing himself, the Colorado Springs Gazette reported. Scarlett was found dead at the scene, while Courrau and Ryan died at a hospital. Courrau was dating the children’s mother, police said. READ MORE HERE

DNA tests show SKULL found in the woods IS that of disabled girl murdered and dismembered by her stepmother in 2011

A skull found a year ago by hunters in a North Carolina forest has been confirmed to be that of a girl who was murdered by her stepmother, it was revealed today.  Hickory Police Chief Tom Adkins said Thursday that DNA tests show it was Zahra Baker. But he added that police are still unable to say how the 10-year-old girl died. Elisa Baker is serving up to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to a second-degree murder charge in connection to the killing and dismembering of her disabled stepdaughter. The girl was reported missing in October 2011 from her home in the western North Carolina town of Hickory. Parts of Zahra Baker’s remains were found in multiple sites around Hickory shortly after her reported disappearance. READ MORE HERE

NEW CASTLE — The Friday death of a New Castle Correctional Facility inmate is being investigated as a homicide. Jeremiah K. Taylor, 37, of Ligonier in northern Indiana, died Friday morning at Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis. According to an Indiana State Police press release, Taylor was found unconscious at the bottom of a stairwell inside the prison about 11:05 p.m. Thursday. He was taken by ambulance to Henry County Hospital, then flown by medical helicopter to Indianapolis. READ MORE HERE

Pope Benedict Will Have Immunity From Child Abuse Claims By Living In Vatican

Pope Benedict will have immunity from any attempts to prosecute him in connection to sexual abuse cases around the world, legal experts say of the pope’s decision to resign his position. Benedict announced that he will spend the remainder of his days living at the Vatican, where he will also be given security measures, Reuters reported. READ MORE HERE

A baby girl is dead after the Florida Department of Children and Families failed to remove her from her drug addicted, violent parents, who had already been the subject of more than 10 reports to the state’s abuse hotline. Little Emma Morrison was just 49 days old when her mother, Lisa Lamoureaux, 33, found her lifeless in her crib at around 9:30 a.m. on January 17 after putting her to sleep nine hours earlier and failing to check on her.  The murky circumstances surrounding her death are still being investigated by Palm Beach County sheriff’s Office and the medical examiner. Lamoureaux had a long history of drug abuse, she had been arrested nine times and her four older children had been permanently taken from her by the state, according to the Miami Herald. But the newspaper reported DCF’s only action after Lamoureaux gave birth to Emma late last year was to refer her to parenting classes that she turned down or was unable to get access to. READ MORE HERE

At Former FL Boys’ Home, Seeking Graves

MARIANNA, FL — Nobody is quite sure how many boys’ bodies lie beneath the grounds of the notorious Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, or which one is Thomas or Owen or Robert.  Nobody is quite sure how most of them died — the cause is often listed as “unknown” or “accident” — or why a great number were buried with such haste. The scattered graves bear no markings: no names, no loving sentiment. The only hint of a cemetery are the white crosses that the state planted in the 1990s, belatedly and haphazardly. READ MORE HERE

OKLAHOMA CITY — A jury has recommended the maximum sentence for the defendant who stood trial in the death of an Edmond toddler. At about 3:40 p.m. Monday, the 8-woman, 4-man jury announced they had reached a verdict. They had received the case from Oklahoma County District Judge Glenn Jones at about 1:05 p.m. when closing statements ended. The defendant, Rico Antwoine Berry, 28, entered the courtroom wearing a dress shirt and tie; he would later leave wearing handcuffs and with the knowledge he had been found guilty on charges of first-degree murder and child neglect. READ MORE HERE

UPDATE: The 10-year-old who was strangled by his mother died Thursday, Tucson Police spokesman Sgt. Chris Widmer said. The boy was strangled Jan. 30. The mother of the boy told police in the ensuing 911 call that she had choked her son. The boy remained in the hospital until Thursday, where he succumbed to his injuries, Widmer said. Family members of a 10-year-old boy strangled with a cord are praying for his recovery. The boy’s mom is in jail charged with attempted first degree murder and child abuse. READ MORE HERE

Kidnapper, JIMMY LEE DYKES, Killed — Boy in center of Alabama hostage standoff freed

A 5-year-old boy who was being held hostage in an underground bunker in Alabama for nearly a week has been released while his abductor is now dead, authorities said Monday. In a press conference Monday night, FBI Special Agent Steve Richardson told reporters the little boy had endured a lot and that he was receiving medical treatment. “The boy is laughing, joking, playing, he’s eating; he’s very brave, he’s very lucky, and the success story is that he is out safe and doing good,” he said. READ MORE  HERE

Alabama Hostage Standoff Ends: Jimmy Lee Dykes Dead, Child Safe After Secret Surveillance

Jimmy Lee Dykes Dead: 5-Year-Old Hostage Rescued In Alabama

Father Decapitated His 7-YO Son — Left Corpse On Side of the Road

The perpetrator believed that his son wasn’t a real person. Jeremiah Wright, 31, of Thibodaux, LA, is due to attend a hearing that will deem whether or not he is fit for trial. According to The Daily Comet, Wright had decapitated his 7-year-old son in 2001 and has since been under mental health evaluation. READ MORE HERE

Jackson County authorities have accused a 30-year-old woman of second-degree murder, child abuse and first-degree child endangerment in the death of a 3-month-old infant whom she baby-sat during an overnight visit. Prosecutors charged Sonya Nerissa Perry of Grandview on Monday in the death of Stephon McCoy, who was taken off life support by his parents on Jan. 17. A physician at Children’s Mercy Hospital told police that Stephon suffered multiple injuries consistent with being shaken, according to court records. READ MORE HERE

Parents of four-month-old baby ‘broke six bones in his body by beating him with cutlery and whipping him with electric cord’, court hears

9-month-old girl is ‘beaten to death’ by her mother’s boyfriend

Uncle CHOPPED UP 18-Month-Old Niece In Gruesome Murder – Roasted Body Parts In OVEN

A toddler’s remains were found in an oven. Andrey Gadzhiev, 34, admitted to killing and dismembering his helpless one-and-a-half-year-old niece and roasting her remains in a hot oven. According to Daily Mail, Andrey Gadzhiev’s sister Elena Titova, 29, had left him caring for the toddler for fifteen minutes while she visited a neighbor. When she returned there was no sign of the child and her intoxicated brother could not explain what had happened to her. READ MORE HERE

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3 Wounded in LONE STAR COLLEGE Shooting

HOUSTON — A shooting on a Texas community college campus wounded three people Tuesday and sent students fleeing for safety as officials placed the campus on lockdown, officials said. Harris County Sheriff’s Maj. Armando Tello said authorities had detained a person of interest.  Authorities also thought there could be a second shooter, according to a law enforcement official in Washington who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the ongoing case. READ MORE HERE

Boy, 15, ‘shoots his pastor father and family dead with military-style assault rifle’

5-yo Philadelphia girl found after being kidnapped from kindergarten classroom

A 5-year-old girl who was abducted from a Philadelphia school on Monday has been found safe, and now authorities are looking for the people who snatched her. Nailla Robinson was found hiding under a jungle gym in a park in Upper Darby by a man who heard her cries on Tuesday morning, police said. She told the man who found her, “I’ve been stolen,” Philadelphia police said.  READ MORE HERE

Search continues for person who took girl from Philadelphia school, causing statewide search

UPDATE:

In Philadelphia, police are still searching for the person who kidnapped a five-year-old girl from her elementary school, spawning a statewide Amber Alert. The child was found overnight, partially clothed, hiding under a jungle gym. A sanitation worker heard her crying for help, wrapped her in his jacket and she told him someone was chasing her. The child is in the hospital. Meanwhile, investigators are trying to determine whether she was sexually assaulted. School surveillance video shows a woman, who told school officials she was the child’s mother, taking the girl from school Monday morning.

For a lot more information on Nailla Robinson being found and the man who found her, click here: http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/01/15/kidnapped-girl-found-in-upper-darby/#.UPXEDvcJ6lU.twitter

California school shooter felt bullied, police say

TAFT, CA —  A 16-year-old student armed with a shotgun walked into a rural California high school on Thursday, shot one student and fired at others and missed before a teacher and another staff member talked him into surrendering, officials said. The teen victim was in critical but stable condition, and the suspect, whose pockets were stuffed with ammunition, was still being interrogated, Sheriff Donny Youngblood said at a news conference Thursday evening. READ MORE HERE

Student tells teacher: ‘I don’t want to shoot you’

Taft High School Shooting: Suspect In Custody In Taft, California

Hero Teacher Talks Down Student Who Opened Fire At High School

Florida mother hospitalized after killing her 6-mo son in murder-suicide bid she warned about on Facebook

A 20-year-old Florida woman is in a critical condition in hospital after turning a gun on herself moments after shooting dead her six-month-old baby. Melanie Reyes, of Ocola, is thought to have told a relative she was going to attempt the murder-suicide on Facebook, according to The Orlando Sentinel.  But when they alerted local police it was already too late. Officers found Reyes in her parents home on Friday morning in a critical condition from gunshot wounds alongside the body of her six-month-old son, Jonah Mendoza. READ MORE HERE

A vicious case of arson left three family members dead and another fighting for his life. Chicago resident Nariyah Beller doused his two young children and their mother in gasoline before setting the house on fire. The blaze killed Beller, Taniya Johnson, and their 4-year-old daughter, while their 9-year-old son remains in the hospital with severe injuries. READ MORE HERE

DETROIT – A Detroit mother has been charged with murder in the death of her 8-year-old daughter. Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said Wednesday that 26-year-old Semeria Greenenot Demeria Greeneis charged with felony murder and first-degree child abuse. Her daughter, Tameria Greene, was found stabbed in the chest Dec. 30. READ MORE HERE