It took a single plea for help — “we are starving and need food and water” — to set off a chain of events that led authorities to a disguised compound beneath the secluded scrubland of northern New Mexico. During a raid Friday morning, Taos County Sheriff’s deputies uncovered a squalid scene: Obscured by walls of […]
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A judge sentenced a 20-year-old man to three life terms for torturing, starving and killing two children whose bodies were found in a California storage unit. While sentencing defendant Gonzalo Curiel, Judge Pamela Butler said he never deserves to walk free again, the Salinas California reported. “The cruelty exhibited, the intentional torture, the beatings, starvings, the […]
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Warning: The video below contains disturbing images. Security camera video that showed a man dropping, throwing and slinging a child outside a Riverside home led to the arrest of the boy’s father, according to police. In the video captured July 5, a man can be seen arguing with a woman identified as the mother of the […]
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A week after a 10-year-old Lancaster boy died following a suspicious fall and the boy’s stepfather was arrested on suspicion of murder, the boy’s mother was also arrested Friday, authorities said. Heather Barron was arrested on suspicion of murder and torture Friday, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and Los Angeles County District […]
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Immigrant children as young as 14 housed at a juvenile detention center in Virginia say they were beaten while handcuffed and locked up for long periods in solitary confinement, left nude and shivering in concrete cells. The abuse claims against the Shenandoah Valley Juvenile Center near Staunton, Virginia, are detailed in federal court filings that […]
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Los Angeles police are investigating reports of elder abuse against Marvel Comics’ Stan Lee. The investigation was revealed in a restraining order granted Wednesday against a man who has been acting as Lee’s business manager and personal adviser. The restraining order says the former adviser, Keya Morgan, has inserted himself into the life of the […]
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Felony charges were filed today against a parolee and a woman accused of embezzling money from a senior citizen in Palm Desert. Johnathan Domenici, 25, and Kimberly Ray, 23, both of Palm Desert, are due in an Indio courtroom Wednesday afternoon for arraignment on charges of willfully embezzling from an elder. She is additionally charged […]
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Ten children have been removed from “horrible living conditions” in a home in Fairfield, California, police said Monday, and both of the parents have been arrested. Officers with the Fairfield Police Department responded to a report of a missing juvenile in the 2200 block of Fieldstone Ct on March 31. The officers found the boy, […]
