The medical examiner has ruled that the cause of death was ‘prematurity with substance abuse by his mother as a contributing factor to his prematurity and subsequent death.’ Ms Matuska has not been charged in connection to her son’s death due to a legal loophole in the negligent homicide statue, which states that children born within a mother’s womb could be classified as a self-abortion. The Tucson Police Department, who has been investigating the case for the past seven months, said that detectives are still trying to pinpoint when exactly baby Delmon was pronounced dead. On the day of the baby’s passing, police executed a search warrant at Matuska’s home, seizing cell phones, a counterfeit $20 bill and marijuana.

A police K9 has successfully tracked down a five-year-old boy who was kidnapped by his father and threatened with death. Richard Mamales, 44, allegedly snatched his young son, Derek, following an argument with the boy’s mother at his home in Tooele, Utah, on Friday night. He reportedly threatened to kill the entire family – starting with Derek – before grabbing his son’s hand and disappearing for the night.

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A teenage girl was left disfigured after two jealous rivals slashed her face with knives because she was ‘too pretty’. The pair allegedly wanted to make Julia Alvarez, 15, ‘look like Chucky’, a reference to the heavily scarred horror movie character. Julia had been to visit friends and was walking home when she says she was approached by the two sisters who started hitting her and punched her to the ground. According to her statement two girls aged 18 and 16 pulled out knives and said: “Everyone says you are pretty. You won’t look pretty when we have finished with you. People will call you Chucky.”

To the people in the LA suburb of Bell Gardens, Mayor Daniel Crespo was a kind-hearted family man who always wore a smile on his face and worked tirelessly to help improve the lives of those in his area. So when it emerged the 45-year-old had been shot dead by his wife during a domestic dispute, the shell-shocked locals united in grief. But behind closed doors, a very different and somewhat sinister picture of this popular figure is beginning to emerge.

A 5-month-old baby clings to life in a Denver hospital, and the person allegedly responsible for putting him there is the child’s stepfather. Philip Jiron sits in the Pueblo County Jail after he allegedly slapped and abused his 5-month-old stepson so badly, the infant is in critical condition. According to arrest papers obtained by 11 News, the little boy is suffering from severe head trauma. Doctors say the infant has two skull fractures and will only move him after he is in stable condition.

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A 49-year-old woman stands accused of brutally abusing her 7-year-old granddaughter while dressed up as her alter ego – a witch called ‘Nelda’. Geneva Robinson of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma was arrested Tuesday on child abuse charges after taking her unnamed granddaughter to the hospital, saying she ‘could not control’ the girl anymore. Doctors reported that the girl was malnourished, and had bruises, burns and cuts all over her body. The girl told a Department of Human Services worker that her grandmother regularly dressed up as a witch wearing a green mask, hat and robe, to abuse her.

Teenage girls who escaped the brutal clutches of ISIS terrorists have recounted a harrowing nightmare of beatings, torture, rape and degradation that included being forced to watch videos of men being beheaded. The girls, members of the persecuted Yazidi minority from northern Iraq, say they were captured and sold or given as gifts. “We would try to make ourselves look ugly,” an escaped girl, 15, told the Global Post news service. “Some women would cry or scream or fight, but it made no difference. They were always taken anyway.” She said they were debased so badly that death, even by suicide, was more appealing than living under ISIS’s barbaric control.

A young girl missing for more than a decade was reportedly found after a daring rescue operation in Mexico. Sabrina Allen was brought back to Austin, Texas, Tuesday night. Allen was taken only one month before her fifth birthday by Dara Llorens, who is also reportedly in custody. The rescue mission included the FBI, U.S. Marshals and Mexican authorities, sources told the station. Both the teen and her mother were brought back to the U.S. on a commercial flight. They were found southeast of Mexico City.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed on Tuesday that a patient being treated at a Dallas hospital has tested positive for Ebola, the first case diagnosed in the United States. The patient left Liberia on September 19 and arrived in the United States on September 20, CDC director, Dr. Tom Frieden told reporters at a press conference Tuesday. It’s the first patient to be diagnosed with this particular strain of Ebola outside of Africa. “[The patient] had no symptoms when departing Liberia or entering this country. But four or five days later on the 24th of September, he began to develop symptoms,” said Frieden. The patient, who was in the U.S. visiting family in Texas, initially sought care on September 26, but was sent home and was not admitted until two days later. He was placed in isolation at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas, where he remains critically ill, according to Frieden.

OHIO -TWO WOMEN TAKE THE STAND AND FIGHT BACK AGAINST A MAN THEY SAY TRIED TO RAPE A 7-YEAR-OLD GIRL. NOW THEY ARE SHARING THEIR STORY, AND THEY HAVE A WARNING FOR ALL PARENTS OUT THERE. THIS HAPPENED IN EVANSTON, OHIO IN THE LAUNDRY ROOM OF AN APARTMENT BUILDING.

BURLINGTON, Vermont —Two women filed lawsuits Tuesday in state and federal courts alleging they were sexually abused as youngsters by an authority figure at their Jehovah’s Witness congregation in Bellows Falls in the mid-1990s, and claiming church elders did nothing to stop it. The litigation, announced in Burlington, involves sisters Miranda and Annessa Lewis. Miranda Lewis, now 23, appeared with her mother, Marina Mauvoleon-Folsom, and lawyers Irwin Zalkin and Jerome O’Neill at a news conference. Lewis said she was 4 years old when she was first molested and fondled by Norton True, a “ministerial servant” in the congregation. Zalkin said that position is one approved by church elders.

Attorney General Eric Holder ripped technology companies Tuesday that he said are “thwarting” the federal government’s ability to stop child abuse, just days after Apple and Google announced new security measures that would prevent the companies from giving authorities data on users. “We would hope that technology companies would be willing to work with us to ensure that law enforcement retains the ability, with court-authorization, to lawfully obtain information in the course of an investigation, such as catching kidnappers and sexual predators,” Holder said at a Washington conference of the Global Alliance Conference Against Child Abuse Online. “It is fully possible to permit law enforcement to do its job while still adequately protecting personal privacy. When a child is in danger, law enforcement needs to be able to take every legally available step to quickly find and protect the child and to stop those that abuse children. It is worrisome to see companies thwarting our ability to do so.”