PLATTSMOUTH, Neb. — A Nebraska City school bus driver is facing misdemeanor child abuse charges.In August, Thomas Mead, 71, dropped off Seth Foreman, 6, at the U.S. Post Office in Union, more than 15 miles from his home, according to investigators. Foreman had gotten on the wrong bus.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — Police released the identities of the woman and her twin teens found dead inside their home on Monday. Renee Ogden, 38, and her two children, Chase and Olivia, both 13, were found murdered inside their home by Tommy Ogden when he returned home from work on Monday. Police have released a specific cause of death but did state that there was “obvious trauma to the bodies.”
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/06/mother-two-teens-found-murdered-in-colorado-home/
Springfield, MO – Police and paramedics were called to Tatianna Light’s home Tuesday afternoon after receiving a 911 call in which she reported her 2-month-old son, Kaiden, was not breathing. Tatianna told officers she had placed the baby on his back on her bed and went to do laundry. When she returned about ten minutes later, Kaiden had rolled onto his stomach and had blood in his nose, so she called 911. EMT’s were unable to resuscitate the baby and he was pronounced dead at the hospital.
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/10/07/woman-confesses-to-smothering-her-infant-son-with-pillows/
NEW HAVEN, Conn. (KTLA) — A paroled burglar was convicted Tuesday of murdering a woman and her two daughters during a night of terror in which the mother was strangled and the girls tied to their beds, one doused in gasoline, before the house was set on fire. Steven Hayes, 47, could be sentenced to death.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-petit-hayes-trial,0,6193998.story
COLORADO SPRINGS, Co. — Police are trying to determine if a Craigslist post threatening a baby’s life is real or a hoax. The posting shows a graphic photo of a newborn accompanied by a threat to leave the baby to die in a trash can. “Desperate baby will die if someone doesn’t pick it up,” the headline read.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-craigslist-baby,0,1629414.story
S. STRABANE, Pa. — A South Strabane man police accused of beating his infant son to brain damage will go to trial. Keith Long, 25, waived his right to a preliminary hearing Wednesday. Investigators said Long’s 5-month-old son suffered permanent brain damage after he was severely abused. Long is charged with aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of his son.
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A former YMCA employee charged with sexually abusing four children had a request for the judge after being on the run for 19 years. Michael Bond‘s attorney asked the judge to reduce his bond and to dismiss the case altogether. Bond fled the country in 1991 shortly after a grand jury indicted him for sexually abusing four boys, all under age 12, while he was a counselor and swim coach at the YMCA Southwest in Louisville.
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The head of New York’s children’s services agency says it’s still unclear whether child protective workers made enough visits to the home of a four-year-old Brooklyn girl before she was found dead last month — apparently abused and massively undernourished. Marchella Pierce was found dead in her Beford-Stuyvesant home on Sept. 2. Prosecutors allege Marchella was beaten. Police said she appeared severely underweight and may have been tied to a bed. She was born with lung problems.
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http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local-beat/City-Should-Have-Done-More-to-Help–104353999.html
A Rogue River man confessed his sins to his pastor before turning himself over to authorities and pleading guilty to sexually abusing a foster child living in his group home. The confession by David Richard Cosby, 60, who pleaded guilty in Jackson County Circuit Court to two counts of first-degree sex abuse, prompted police to seek out other foster children he cared for, to see if they also may have been abused.
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http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101006/NEWS/10060322&emailAFriend=1
South Charleston Police have charged a man in connection with the death of an 18-month old baby girl. Twenty-one year old Larry Hayes Junior is jailed on charges of child abuse resulting in death. Police say the young Rebecca McDaniel was in his care when she was seriously injured last week. The child’s mother is Hayes’ live-in girlfriend. She was at work at the time the child was injured.
Police say the incident happened last Thursday. According to a criminal complaint the mother, Meredith Bush said Hayes called her at work to say something was wrong with the child. When he arrived with the baby, it wasn’t breathing. The baby was taken to CAMC Women’s and Children’s hospital where it lived on a ventilator with no brain activity until she died Sunday.
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http://www.58wchs.com/includes/news_items/7/news_items_more.php?id=3207§ion_id=7
A 41-year-old Sheboygan man has been sentenced to two years in prison for a June incident in which he choked his girlfriend and injured their 3-year-old daughter while trying to yank her away. Solomon Byrd Sr., of 2225-A N. 15th St., was sentenced Monday by Judge L. Edward Stengel to the prison term and four years extended supervision, matching the joint recommendation made by the prosecution and defense as part of a plea agreement, according to court records released Wednesday. Byrd was convicted of felony child abuse recklessly causing harm and strangulation and suffocation.
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BAKERSFIELD, Calif. – Here’s another update on a story we featured last year — a horrific case of child abuse that stuck with me for awhile. Back in April of ’09, 34-year-old Angelo Mendoza, allegedly high on PCP, attacked his 4-year-old son and chewed out one of his eyeballs. The other one he mutilated. When Wheelchair bound, he made his way to a neighbor’s home and crawled into the back yard, stripped naked and began hacking off his own leg with a pickax while yelling incoherently. Ramon Rodriguez wrestled the ax away from him and then went to check on the man’s son. He found him laying on the ground with bites to his hands and both eyes swollen shut. “My daddy ate my eyes out,” the little boy told him.
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LAWRENCE, Kansas – Back in June, police began investigating a couple after two sisters ages 8 and 10, told their parents that a family friend, 32-year-old Donald L. Brown, had been raping them repeatedly over the last two years. He would eventually be charged with rape of a child under 14 years of age, three counts of aggravated criminal sodomy of a child under 14 years of age and two counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child.
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