A Galveston County jury took three hours Monday to decide Travis James Mullis should be executed for crushing his 3-month-old son’s head beneath his foot to make him stop crying. Mullis betrayed no emotion as the verdict was announced.
Two parents and a live-in caregiver are in jail in connection with a sex-abuse case in Cochise County. Clayton and Elizabeth Cherry are charged, along with caregiver Rachel Robinson, with multiple counts related to sexual abuse. Cochise County Sheriff’s deputies say the suspects abused three children – ages 3, 6 and 10.
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Wilmington, DE — A Youth Pastor from Miracle Temple Holy Church as been arrested for third-degree rape of a member of his church. He had met the girl there little over a month ago. Robert Stoner, 38, came to the attention of police when a 15-year-old was reported missing by her mother after not returning home on a school night. Police were directed by the mother to check the youth minister’s home. No one answered the door.
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BROOKLYN, NY — The boyfriend of a Brooklyn foster mother was arraigned Monday in connection with the vicious beating of a 17-month-old boy. Kysheen Oliver, 19, is charged with assault, reckless endangerment and endangering the welfare of a child.
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NEW YORK (CNN) — Hall of Fame NFL linebacker Lawrence Taylor was sentenced to six years probation during a court hearing Tuesday after pleading guilty to sexual misconduct with an underage girl. Taylor, who pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges in the case in January, will also have to pay a $2,000 fine, Judge William Kelly said.
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Helen Reece, a reader in law at the London School of Economics, called on Theresa May, the Home Secretary, to relax rules which automatically ban sex offenders from caring for children, saying that this could breach their human rights. In an article in the respected Child and Family Law Quarterly, Miss Reece suggested that reoffending rates were not high among sex criminals, adding: “despite growing public concern over paedophilia, the numbers of child sex murders are very low.”
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ROEBUCK, SC –A couple from Spartanburg County was arrested on drug charges just hours after their young child was found dead. A magistrate denied the couple bond at a hearing Friday afternoon. Master Deputy Tony Ivey of the Spartanburg County Sheriff’s Office said that 34-year-old Chuck McCullough and 21-year-old Carrisa McCullough, of Roebuck, were arrested and charged with one count each of trafficking meth on Thursday.
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Jacksonville, FL—– A nurse at Shands-Jacksonville Medical Center has been charged with ten (10) counts of sexual performance by a child and possession of child pornography. Mark A. Rounds, 35, a married father of two young girls, came under investigation in November after the Attorney General’s CyberCrime Unit discovered he was visiting and contributing to a website that featured “torture, sex, death and fine dining”. Which word does not belong with the other three?
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A man suspected of killing a child on a playground was arrested in Greenville on Wednesday night after authorities surrounded an apartment complex near the medical district. Goldsboro murder suspect Derrick Best was holed up in apartments off Paladin Drive, according to Greenville Police Chief William Anderson. Best, who has a long criminal history according to police, was wanted for the shooting death of a 3-year-old girl in February on a Goldsboro playground.
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Pictures of a starved 6-year-old boy with Down syndrome — a boy found confined in a De Soto attic — looked as if they could have come from a concentration camp. But jurors will not have to look at the photos. The boy’s mother stopped that Friday with a guilty plea.
Currie, NC—- The pianist and “Minister of Music” for smaller churches in the Wilmington and Pender County area was arrested at Pender High School on March 8th, when he attempted to take a 15-year-old student off campus. Inside the suspect’s vehicle officers discovered three (3) bags of sex toys, lubricants and print-outs of sexually explicit e-mails with the boy’s name on them.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — An elementary school student in Washington, D.C. is facing drug charges after police say he brought cocaine to school and shared it with his friends. The incident happened at Thompson Elementary School. Several students swallowed the cocaine during the school day, and five had to be rushed to the hospital.
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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT
FORT SMITH, Ark. – Fort Smith investigators say a dozen dogs inside a north side home were well fed, but a baby they rescued was little more than skin and bones. Another infant showed signs of abuse. We want to warn you that some of the photos with this story are very graphic and not appropriate for children.
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