Staten Island, NY

San Antonio, TX

A Texas mom told her 3-year-old son to “say goodbye to Daddy” on camera just moments before she shot the boy in a ditch and then turned the gun on herself — a day before she was due in court for a custody hearing with her ex-husband, cops said.

Mom made son, 3, say ‘goodbye to Daddy’ on camera before shooting him dead in murder-suicide a day before custody hearing

Indianapolis, IN

New York Post

An Indianapolis mother who admitted to fatally smothering her baby while high on meth became overwhelmed and hid her face in her hands when a controversial judge allowed her to walk free. 

Dacia Lacey, 32, was found not guilty of neglect of a dependent resulting in the 2022 death of her daughter, Alona, by Judge Mark Stoner, who is already facing calls to resign after giving a mentally ill man who fatally shot a police officer a sentence of time served, WTHR reported. 

The mom was cleared even though the judge told her it was “a case that happens when...

Mom who admitted to smothering toddler while high on meth walks free thanks to controversial judge

Henderson, NV

A couple allegedly locked their autistic 11-year-old son in makeshift jail cell where police found him living in his own waste. Misty Scanlan, 46, and Jeffery Scanlan, 41, have been charged with child abuse and neglect after authorities were alerted when the boy didn't show up for school, prompting staff to contact the authorities and launch an investigation into his truancy. The Henderson Police Department reportedly responded to a welfare check on the student that morning at 10:15 a.m., which is when they made the harrowing discovery.

Couple 'locked autistic son, 11, in makeshift jail cell' where police found him living in own waste

Boone County, WV

Morrisvale, WV

The mom of a 14-year-old girl has been charged in connection with the death of her teenage daughter, who was found "emaciated" on the floor of the family's bathroom. Julie Anne Stone Miller, 49, of Morrisvale, West Virginia, has been arrested and charged with felony child neglect causing death. Boone County deputies were called to the home on Wednesday to investigate after receiving calls reporting a death.

Mom charged as 14-year-old girl found 'emaciated to skeletal state' in bathroom of family home

San Diego, CA

Law & Crime

U.S. District Judge Roger Benitez argued he was just trying to teach the 13-year-old daughter of a criminal defendant a tough lesson when he shackled her in his California courtroom and then had her led to the jury box by a marshal as she cried. But in a rare rebuke, an appeals court called that conduct "abusive" and "harassing" and stripped him of taking any on new criminal cases for three years.
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'You're an awfully cute young lady': Judge who shackled crying daughter of defendant to prove a point reprimanded as council says he had 'no authority'

Houston, TX

A Texas mother is facing time behind bars after allegedly leaving her young children home alone while she went on vacation. As reported by KHOU 11, Lakesha Woods Williams is facing a child abandonment charge after she allegedly left her two young children, aged 6 and 8 years old, alone in her Houston apartment for nearly a week while she was on a cruise.

Texas Mother Arrested After Leaving Her Young Children Home Alone to Go on Cruise

Nevada State

CBS News

A Nevada couple was arrested after police were called to their home and found their 11-year-old child "being contained within a large metal enclosure," authorities said Wednesday. Misty Scanlan, 46, and Jeffery Scanlan,41, were taken into custody and each booked on one count of child abuse and neglect, the Henderson Police Department said in a statement. The arrest came after police arrived at the Scanlan home around 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday to respond to a truancy report from the school district. The school officer had arrived at the home after a child had been missing from school and could hear screams...

Nevada parents arrested after boy found in makeshift "jail cell"

Sacramento, CA

Fox News

A Sacramento mom is charged with hurting her 2-year-old daughter for the second time in six months after allegedly attacking her toddler, who woke her up on a plane, court documents allege

California mom beat toddler 'like a rag doll' on plane as passengers tried to intervene: court docs

California State

Redwood City, CA

The wife of the California doctor accused of intentionally driving a Tesla off a cliff with his family inside last year begged prosecutors to drop his attempted murder charges during courtroom testimony Thursday. 

Dharmesh Patel was reportedly emotional as he listened to his wife, Neha Patel, reflect on the horrific crash for the first time in a Redwood City court and how their young son asked her, “When’s Daddy coming home?”

“We need him in our lives and it has been over a year and a half since my children or I have seen or spoken to Dharmesh,” Neha Patel said, according to...

Wife of California doctor who drove Tesla off cliff with family inside speaks in court for first time as kids ask, ‘When’s Daddy coming home?’

South Carolina State

Mendham, NJ

A teen mom who abandoned her newborn baby to die in a plastic bag on Christmas Eve 40 years ago has been caught four decades later. Mary Catherine Snyder was only 17 when she left her unnamed daughter near a stream in a wooded area of Mendham Township, New Jersey, back in 1984. She wrapped the baby in a towel and placed her in a plastic bag with her umbilical cord still attached.

Teen mom who abandoned baby in plastic bag leaving newborn to die on Christmas Eve caught after 40 years

Florida State

Satellite Beach, FL

Jackie Giurleo filed a police report after finding an AirTag that she had not placed in her son Aidan's shoe – a subpoena to Apple revealed a bizarre mix-up.

Warning for parents after Florida mom finds AirTag in son's sneaker

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Parents Charged with Child Neglect After Getting Too Drunk at Disney World, Mother Hit Several Times in the Face While Children Watched

Law enforcement stumbled onto a heartbreaking scene in a hotel room at Disney’s Polynesian Village Resort. The parents of two minor children were passed out, severely...

Parents Charged with Child Neglect After Getting Too Drunk at Disney World, Mother Hit Several Times in the Face While Children Watched

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