Texas family sues DirecTV after a man who comes into home during service call turns out to be a registered sex offender

A family in Murphy, Texas has filed a civil lawsuit against satellite television provider DirecTV, claiming the service technician who came into their home turned out to be a registered sex offender. VIEW VIDEO HERE

Dea Millerberg, 41, was sentenced today after pleading guilty to three felonies, including desecration of a human body

A married mom accused of helping her white supremacist husband dump their teenage babysitter’s body in the woods after a night of sex and drugs led to the girl’s overdose death, has been sentenced today to up to five years in jail. Dea Millerberg, 41, was sentenced on Thursday in Ogden, Utah after she pleaded guilty in June to three felonies, including desecration of a human body. She agreed to a plea deal after testifying against her husband, 38-year-old Eric Millerberg over the murder of 16-year-old Alexis Rasmussen.  Millerberg, a mother of two young daughters, sobbed hysterically in court on Thursday and turned to apologize to Miss Rasmussen’s mother, Dawn Miera, who had come to watch her be sent to jail. READ MORE HERE

Mother charged with child endangerment for allowing a man to sleep with her daughter, 11, and get her pregnant

An Iowa mother was arrested on child endangerment charges after it was discovered that her 12-year-old daughter became pregnant after being allowed to sleep with a grown man. The 37-year-old woman from Newton was taken into custody Friday following an investigation that revealed that the mother did nothing to stop 24-year-old Jacob White, a family friend, from sharing her then-11-year-old daughter’s bed. MailOnline is not releasing the woman’s name to protect the identity of her daughter due to the nature of the crime.  READ MORE HERE

FARMINGTON, UTAH — A two-day jury trial for a convicted sex offender has been canceled following a a guilty plea. Gary Ellis Hamblin, 48, of Layton, entered a guilty plea to one count of attempted sodomy on a child, a first-degree felony. A sentencing hearing is scheduled for Oct. 6 in 2nd District Court in Layton before Judge Robert Dale. READ MORE HERE

Boy was treated worse than ‘a prisoner of war’

An eight-year-old boy was covered in pepper spray, forced to eat his own vomit, gagged and locked in a cabinet to silence his cries for help just days before his mother and her boyfriend allegedly beat him to death, according to court records published on Monday reports the Los Angeles Times. Gabriel Fernandez’s mother, Pearl, 30, and her boyfriend, Isauro Aguirre, 34, abused ‘every inch’ of their child before his gruesome murder in May, 2013, a Los Angeles’ court was told by prosecutors. Prosecutors claim that ‘for eight straight months, Gabriel was abused, beaten and tortured more severely than many prisoners of war,’ – even writing his own suicide note – and convened the grand jury after repeated delays in setting up a preliminary hearing for Fernandez and Aguirre who are charged with murder. READ MORE HERE

Baby had injuries from head to foot

A 10-month-old baby had injuries from his head to his feet, including burns covering his body which would have caused extreme pain, before he was rushed lifeless into a remote WA roadhouse, a Supreme Court murder trial has been told this morning. Opening the State case against Mervyn Kenneth Douglas Bell, prosecutor Amanda Forrester said the exact cause of the baby boy’s death could not be determined, but he had a broken arm and leg and burns on his feet, legs and body. The boy also had severe injuries to his genitals and anus. READ MORE HERE

Man on trial over WA baby’s murder

Man killed baby boy in sustained and violent attack, court told

Woman charged with neglect, murder after baby dies

York County, Virginia – A 31-year-old woman was arrested and charged with child neglect and murder on Thursday in York County. Deputies from the York-Poquoson Sheriff’s Office were called to a residence in the 80 block of Challenger Circle on Tuesday along with Emergency Medical personnel after receiving reports of an unresponsive toddler. The 16-month-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene. Preliminary autopsy results indicate the child died from strangulation. READ MORE HERE

MOULTRIE — A man who is thought to have fathered up to eight children with his daughter pleaded guilty this week to two counts of incest. Ruben Fernando-Lopez, 42, is scheduled for sentencing on Sept. 30. He could receive a minimum of 20 years or up to 60 years in prison, as each count carries a 10- to 30-year sentence. Law enforcement began investigating Fernando-Lopez after his daughter gave birth in Albany to a premature child who was born on June 12. The baby died a few days later. READ MORE HERE

Johannesburg – Western Cape police were on Tuesday investigating the alleged rape of a 5-year-old girl by three Grade 2 boys at a school in Rocklands, Mitchell’s Plain. The 5-year-old Grade R pupil was allegedly raped on 4 March in the grounds of a primary school in the area, said police spokesperson Frederick van Wyk. READ MORE HERE

Western Cape pupils play ‘rape, rape’ game

A Colorado woman appeared in court on Monday for the first time after being charged with abusing her 7-year-old daughter who suffered from seizures and was unable to walk or speak when found living amid squalor, prosecutors said. Leah Dyer, 47, of Fort Collins is charged with one count of felony child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury, said Linda Jensen, spokeswoman for the Larimer County District Attorney’s Office. Her husband, Douglas Dyer, 44, faces the same charge. Both are free on $10,000 bonds. READ MORE HERE

COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS — A man was charged with second-degree felony child abuse after police say he hit his 5-year-old daughter. Michael Shaun Hall, 27, allegedly beat his daughter after she fed the family dog with food from the dinner table, according to Sgt. Corbett Ford of the Cottonwood Heights Police Department. The 5-year-old didn’t like what she was eating and when Hall stepped away from the table, she fed her food to the dog, Ford said. “Instead of disciplining, he takes it further and uses a belt and apparently a hanger, which caused substantial bruising and injury to her,” Ford said. READ MORE HERE

Washington – A child molester who was raped while held in the Garfield County Jail in Pomeroy is suing the county. The complaint filed Tuesday in Walla Walla Superior Court says the man suffers anxiety and nightmares. He’s seeking an amount of money that would be determined at a trial in the civil rights lawsuit. The Union-Bulletin reports the man was jailed in August 2011 for investigation of child rape when he was raped three times by cellmate John Markwell. READ MORE HERE

The Brooklyn father who fatally beat 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown also forced his son to rape a relative, according to reports. The new allegations were laid out on Wednesday against Cesar Rodriguez, who was convicted in the 2006 torture and killing of Nixzmary, in a case that shocked New York and forced a major shake up of the city’s child protection agency. Rodriguez’s now 15-year-old stepson, who has been charged with raping two relatives some eight years ago, told detectives that his stepfather forced him to commit at least one of the crimes, the New York Daily News reported. The father made the boy commit the act while he watched, sources told the New York Post. The alleged rape would have happened before his sister’s murder in 2006, when he was about 8 years old. READ MORE HERE

• Andrew Wheeler allegedly beat and choked the boy in front of cheering partygoers on Friday night
• Police found the victim lying in the street outside the home about midnight
• The concussed boy was rushed to hospital with facial and scalp contusions
  
• Homeowner Evadean Lydecker was allegedly home during the attack and has been charged 

An 18-year-old man has been charged with viciously assaulting an autistic boy at a Florida house party after sickening video of the attack went viral.  Andrew Wheeler allegedly kicked, punched and held a knife to the throat of the intoxicated 16-year-old boy before choking him until he lost consciousness on August 8. Disturbing footage shared on Facebook shows the boy cowering and screaming in pain as party-goers stood around and laughed. READ MORE HERE

The disturbing video has caused outrage online, with a Facebook group and a hashtag, #JusticeForAaron (reportedly the name of the victim) springing up quickly.