Woman Assaults Mother With TIRE IRON – Steals Her Newborn Baby

Andrea Endara-Paredes, 24, had been faking a pregnancy, assaulted a mother with a tire iron, then kidnapped the mother and her two children. According to WMBF News, Endara-Paredes released the woman and her four-year-old child, but kept her one-month-old little girl.  READ MORE HERE

You won’t read about the fate of 4 year old Jadon Higganbothan on the front page of CNN today.  It’s unlikely that Nancy Grace will rage about him on her show. ABC and Fox probably won’t give his death wall to wall coverage.  Because Jadon Higganbothan was not blond, or a girl – but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t lament what happened to him, or why. READ MORE HERE

(Note: This story originally aired in 2011, but I’m sharing it again)

Emaciated and with “too many scars to count,” a 6-year-old boy is dead and his biological parents are being charged.

The trauma of childhood sexual abuse doesn’t stop after the act itself. The effects of sexual abuse can linger for years, debilitating victims throughout their lives and well into adulthood, according to experts. The anti-sexual violence organization RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network) and the Let Go…Let Peace Come In Foundation are two organizations that each year work with survivors of sexual abuse and sexual assault in the US. Many sexual abuse survivors will spend their lives one way or another coping with the repercussions of the sexual violations inflicted upon them as children.  READ MORE HERE

A babysitter has been charged with murder after he allegedly slammed a toddler he was looking after into a wall. Jarrod Rudder, 24, grabbed two-year-old Michael Pulliam by the wrist and smacked the child off a wall and lamp causing multiple broken bones and a brain bleed. Rudder is the boyfriend of the child’s mother Amanda Howell and had been living with them at their trailer park home in Elkville, Illinois. READ MORE HERE

Man sentenced in child abuse homicide case

CEDAR CITY — Emotions ran high Tuesday in Cedar City’s 5th District Court as a Cedar City man who shook his former girlfriend’s infant child, causing fatal injuries, was sentenced to 1 to 15 years in Utah State Prison. According to testimony, Thomas Harry Canum III, 25, was left alone with 14-month-old Cayden Lasseter, the son of his former girlfriend, Molly Gricius, on Sept. 18, 2010.  READ MORE HERE

Texas — Andrea Yates is asking for some of her freedom back.  She became infamous in 2001 after murdering her five young children. She was eventually declared guilty by insanity.  But now her doctors say she should be allowed to go to church outside the Texas mental hospital where she lives. But the court will have to decide. Her lawyer, George Parnham, says a congregation has agreed to let her come to their church.  READ MORE HERE

Whiteville, TENNESSEE – Hardeman County deputies are searching for a mother and her three daughters after they disappeared Friday. No one’s seen or heard from them since. Her husband says they’ve been married 11 years and hopes the TBI will find answers. In the small sleepy town of Whiteville, you can find signs of Joann Bain and her three daughters.  READ MORE HERE

A priest, charged with the attempted rape of a 14-year-old boy, has said that although he let the teenager share his bed and view pornography, he had never touched him. The accuser, who is now 30, testified today that he was 14 when Reverend James Brennan, 48, sexually abused him at his apartment. Reverend James Brennan, 48, was one of several priests involved in the clergy abuse trial which has scandalized the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.  READ MORE HERE

Authorities charge woman with incest

A 32-year-old woman faces charges of incest and other allegations in Napa County Superior Court after she was arrested on suspicion of having sex with her 16-year-old biological son from Napa, according to court documents. Mistie Atkinson, of Nice, Lake County, was arrested on a warrant in early March in Ukiah, where police allegedly found her in a hotel room with the boy, according to court documents. READ MORE HERE

LA MIRADA, CA- Sheriff’s investigators arrested a substitute teacher Tuesday, accusing him of having a sexually-charged relationship with a 13-year-old girl over the Internet. Taylor Welch, 22, was arrested at his La Mirada home on suspicion of conducting lewd acts with the girl and sending her explicit material.  READ MORE HERE

FULLERTON, CA — A young mother accused of stabbing her newborn daughter to death plead guilty Tuesday to second degree murder. In a deal with prosecutors, Yoselin Torres Tovar, 20, plead to one felony count of second-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement. She was initially charged with felony murder and child abuse.  READ MORE HERE

According to ABC 7, a neighbor reported hearing the woman moaning, crying and making noises but he did not think it was anything as serious as what occurred. Moss’s family said that Rogers had insisted that Moss terminate the pregnancy but Moss refused.  READ MORE HERE

Woman Allows The Rape Of Her 5-MONTH-OLD Daughter, Receives Two Life Sentences

Tessa Vanvlerah, 22, allowed Kenneth Kyle, a Californian college professor, to photograph, urinate on, rape and burn her 5-month-old daughter. According to STL Today, Vanvlerah’s attorney’s attempted to get her probation based on a psychological disorder. The judge was not lenient on the woman.  READ MORE HERE