Five Wisconsin teenagers have been arrested and face charges of first-degree attempted murder for the beating and stabbing of two 19-year-olds. Sergio Rivera, 17, Royce Bressette, 17, Cory Mayer, 17, Tyler Brickham-VanVorce, 17, and a 16-year-old boy were all arrested in relation to a violent encounter at a party in Howard. The incident is believed to be caused by a dispute between rival gangs.

A federal investigation into a county courthouse has revealed a shocking catalogue of claims that sex assault victims were routinely discriminated against and ignored. In one case, it is alleged a prosecutor in Montana left a five-year-old rape victim’s mother horrified when he explained away the attack by saying ‘boys will be boys’. According to a report, the mother of the child said she wanted to know why the boy who raped her daughter was only getting a slap on the wrist.

19-YO Pennsylvania ‘Craigslist killer’ says she slayed dozens more across U.S. as part of satanic cult A Pennsylvania newlywed accused of meeting a man on Craigslist and then stabbing him to death with her husband’s help said she killed more than 20 more people as part of her involvement in a bloodthirsty satanic cult. “When I […]

CONNEAUT — The death of 4-year-old Melanie Powell has been ruled a homicide, according to a statement from the Cuyahoga County medical examiner’s office. Cause of death was “blunt impact injuries of (the) head,” while the manner of death a homicide, the statement said. The ruling will not change the way the Conneaut Police Department investigates the death, Police Chief Charles Burlingham said Thursday.

GERMANTOWN, Md. -Montgomery County Police have charged a second woman with murder in the deaths of two children in Germantown. Saturday afternoon, detectives arrested Monifa Denise Sanford, age 21, of the 19000 block of Cherry Bend Drive in Germantown after she was released from the hospital. Sanford has been charged with two counts of First Degree Murder and two counts of Attempted First Degree Murder. She is being held without bond.

The mother of a four-year-old boy savagely murdered by a friend who was allowed to sleep on her sofa has said she feels ‘so much guilt’ over letting the ‘monster’ stay with them. Sharon Smith and her partner Guy Earwaker had thought psychopath Anwar Daniel Rosser was a harmless neighbor and allowed him to stay at their house when he asked after turning up after a night out. In the early hours, the 33-year-old sneaked upstairs armed with four knives and stabbed Riley Turner to death. He then crept into another bedroom where the boy’s mother and her partner were sleeping and curled up to sleep on the floor.

A father accused of hacking his disabled seven year-old son’s head off with a meat cleaver and leaving it by the road for the boy’s mother to see has been ruled not guilty of murder by reason of insanity. Defense experts have successfully proven that Jeremiah Wright, 32, from Louisiana, was suffering a delusion at the time of the brutal murder of Jori Lirette, who suffered from cerebral palsy. Wright was charged with the first degree murder of the little boy on August 14, 2011, and faced life in prison or death by lethal injection if convicted.

BOSTON — Massachusetts state police say a 71-year-old man sought on 1992 Boston-area child sex abuse charges has been arrested in Colombia. Police said Richard Haugh jumped bail on the Belmont charges including child rape, indecent assault and providing obscene material to a minor. Police said he also faces federal postal fraud charges. State police said Haugh was arrested Friday by U.S. agents and Colombian police as he traveled with suitcases in a taxi from Cali to Cartagena.

The gifted teenage girl who who jumped off the roof of her grandmother’s Upper West Side apartment building on Thursday spent two hours on the roof considering suicide before the fateful leap, MailOnline can now reveal. Jayah Ram Jackson, 15, stood on the roof of the 27-storey building for nearly two hours that morning before deciding against jumping, sources said. The girl then went back on the roof later that morning to jump Investigators have been poring over video surveillance footage taken from the hi-rise apartment building the day of the jump in order to piece together the troubled girl’s final moments.

Sick children have secretly been given deadly ­overdoses by British medics in illegal mercy killings, a doctor has claimed. The shock suggestion was made by retired GP Michael Irwin and it sparked an urgent probe as Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt vowed to investigate “whether the law was broken”. It came just hours after Belgium became the first country in the world to allow the euthanasia of children.

The baby’s name is Sheila Marie. That’s what her mum Darlene Hayes always said she would call her in conversations with relatives and her friend and neighbor Julie Corey. Darlene, 23, and Julie, much older at 39, were expecting to give birth just four weeks apart and they would spend hours over cups of coffee discussing the names they liked. Julie said she was having a girl too and she planned to call her Alida. But Darlene didn’t live to give birth.

Tucson, Arizona – Christine Mazzarella, a 47-year-old special education teacher at Lineweaver Elementary School, was jailed Wednesday after she allegedly had sex with a 13-year-old relative. According to Tucson Police, an investigation was launched earlier this month when the department’s child sex crime unit received a tip alleging that Mazzarella was having a sexual relationship with an underage relative.

CLAYTON, MO – A popular family doctor with a practice in High Ridge is now jailed, charged with possession of child pornography and a numerous sexual assaults against members of his own family. Police say Dr. Craig Pope was initially discovered when internet child pornography was traced to computers in his Kirkwood home and his High Ridge office.

PUEBLO – A Pueblo mom dropped her two-week-old baby on the tracks and ran away, according to the Pueblo Police Department. Early Friday afternoon, Pueblo Police were dispatched to 29th St. and Lowell St. after reports of a woman with a baby on the train tracks. When police got there, they found a group of people detaining Jessica Sloan, 31. Witnesses told police that Sloan dropped her baby on the tracks between two stopped trains and began running.