DEVELOPING STORY Mobile police are looking for two children who were reported missing after a man in Kentucky told police they were dead.

MOBILE, Alabama – Mobile police are looking for two children who were reported missing after a man in Louisville, Kentucky told police the kids were dead. Natalie Deblase, 5, and Jonathan Deblase, 3, were last seen in Mobile more than four months ago, but police have not been able to account for their whereabouts since then. The children were listed as residents at the Peach Place Extended Stay Inn on Jeff Hamilton Road in West Mobile along with John Deblase, 27, and Heather Leavell-Keaton, 22. The family moved out of the apartment on July 23 and left a forwarding address in Rome, Georgia. Management at the apartment complex remember seeing the little girl, but tell News Five they do not remember ever seeing the boy.

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Court orders search warrants released

NEWTON –In court documents that were unsealed Tuesday, it was revealed that Zahra Clare Baker was likely dismembered in the bathtub of the Baker house in Hickory. Zahra’s stepmother, Elisa Baker, has been assigned prominent defense attorney Lisa Dubs. The Oct. 27 search warrant states Elisa gave information to police through Dubs relating to the investigation. This includes that “the body of Zahra Baker was dismembered. That blood, body fluids and pieces of bone may be located in the drain trap of the bathtub.”

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The two St. Paul moms often traded off baby-sitting each other’s children. But the favor turned tragic for a 4-year-old girl who told her mother the other woman’s boyfriend had raped her. Fahid Nazir, 29, of Columbia Heights was charged with first-degree criminal sexual conduct in the Sept. 14 incident. Based on a criminal complaint filed Monday and made public Tuesday in Ramsey County District Court, the child’s mother notified police after the girl returned to her own apartment, where her mother had been making lunch.

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SAN FERNANDO ( KTLA) — A teacher at Hillcrest Christian school in Granada Hills accused of having sex with a student appeared in court Monday on a 20-count criminal complaint. Mark Stephen Hubbard, 51, is charged with 16 counts of oral copulation of a person under 18, three counts of unlawful sexual intercourse and one count of sodomy of a person under 18. Hubbard appeared for arraignment at San Fernando Superior Court, but his arraignment was postponed until Dec. 13. His bail has been set at $1 million.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Two years to the day after it was shot, surveillance video of an emaciated teenager begging for help inside a Tracy gym is now being seen by the public after prosecutors released it this week. The video – recorded Dec. 1, 2008 – shows then-16-year-old Kyle Ramirez wearing only boxer shorts and a shackle across his ankle as he enters the gym to ask for help. He then disappears briefly before he’s covered by a towel and led away from the desk area by a staff member.

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McLEAN, Va. — A grandmother threw her 2½-year-old granddaughter several stories to her death from a walkway at a shopping mall after a family outing, police said Tuesday. Carmela Dela Rosa, 50, of Fairfax was arrested and charged Tuesday with murder, said prosecutor Ian Rodway, the chief deputy Commonwealth’s attorney. The child, Angelyn Ogdoc, died in a hospital after plunging to the pavement Monday night. She fell from a walkway linking the mall’s third floor to the parking garage’s sixth floor at Tysons Corner Center in Fairfax, a Washington suburb in Virginia.

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Rosemont, IL — Here’s a horrific case of child abuse that’ll knock your ass right out of the holiday spirit. A 33-year-old man is in jail on $200,000 bond after being charged with submerging his 17-month-old stepson’s face in scalding water, causing second-degree burns. After doing a bit of heroin and getting into an argument with his wife, police say Santiago R. Minjarez got aggravated at his stepson’s crying after the boy’s mother left the house. He admitted to holding the kid upside down by his legs, one of them still in a cast from a previous injury, and placing his head in the hot water running from a bathtub faucet.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/29/man-charged-with-submerging-baby-upside-down-into-scalding-water/

Family speaks exclusively to KTLA, says Amanda Cooper had terminal disease.

HAWTHORNE ( KTLA) — The family of a 10 year old girl who died Saturday under mysterious circumstances spoke out Sunday to KTLA. Amanda Cooper’s aunt says the little girl was diagnosed with a terminal disease and had only a short time to live. The aunt, who wished to remain anonymous, said the family was stunned by allegations that Amanda may have been sexually abused. “If there’s anything, we want to know. That’s why we want to be left alone because we want the police to do their job. Of course we’re worried about that. Just the thought of it sickens me,” the aunt told KTLA.

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A teenage girl was being held on bail Saturday after pleading not guilty to charges stemming from her boyfriend’s son’s death on Staten Island. Cynthia Dubois, 18, was charged with reckless assault of a child and child endangerment, after police say she shook 15-month-old Josiah Taylor and did not get him immediate medical help. Bail was set at $100,000. The suspect’s mother said Dubois was babysitting the child.

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The images of beautiful Jenni-Lyn Watson are difficult to look at too closely in light of recent discoveries The 20-year-old ballerina took off from college and headed to her parents’ home in Liverpool, New York, for the Thanksgiving holiday last week. But instead of enjoying time with friends and family and feasting on turkey, she was reported missing shortly after she arrived home. Today police found what they believe is her body, dumped “like garbage” in the woods.

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http://thestir.cafemom.com/in_the_news/113028/jenni_lyn_watson_murder_every

MAGNOLIA, Del.- Delaware State Police say a suspect wanted for the murder of a 10-year-old Magnolia boy turned himself in early Sunday morning. Just after midnight, 18-year-old Obadiah D. Miller turned himself in to DSP Troop 3 and charged with first-degree murder and related weapons charges. He is being held without bail at the James T. Vaughn Correctional Center. According to police, Miller allegedly shot and killed Lionel Butler on Nascar Lane at around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. Neighbors described Lionel as a typical, happy child.

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