The 5-year-old boy thrown off a third-floor balcony at the Mall of America in Minnesota has improved so much he’s walking “perfectly” and attending school, according to a post on his family-run GoFundMe account. “He loves being back to school and going to kindergarten at the same school his twin brother and sister go to,” the […]
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A teacher administering an online test who heard an 11-year-old student say she was hungry and only allowed to eat a small plate of rice each day alerted investigators in Ohio that something was amiss. Authorities found the girl was severely malnourished, living in filth and had been isolated for years. The girl weighed just […]
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Three young girls — all under the age of 10 — were found living in a house with 245 animals, police said. Among them were four dogs, 10 sugar gliders, a hedge hog, 14 birds and 60 adult rats with 23 babies. You couldn’t walk anywhere without stepping on debris, or animal urine or feces, […]
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A North Carolina couple was charged with child abuse after a 7-year-old boy died, according to police. At about 4:42 a.m. Wednesday, police responded to a report of an unresponsive person in a home on the 1500 block of Sisal Drive. At the scene, police found 7-year-old Ethan Bates, who died at the scene. The […]
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The body of a missing 10-year-old girl has been recovered inside a shed behind her home, according to Indiana State Police. Skylea Rayn Carmack was reported missing Saturday evening. Indiana State Police say their preliminary investigation indicates that Skylea was killed sometime Saturday afternoon or evening. Her body was found Wednesday morning around 3 a.m. […]
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Two Palm Desert men are due in court Wednesday for alleged crimes involving children. Devin Daniel Lujan, 28, and James McCall Anderson, 31, were both arrested in the 74000 block of Scholar Lane on June 28 after deputies were tipped off about suspected child sexual abuse. Lujan was arraigned last month on suspicion of willfully […]
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An Indio man was arrested for sexual abuse of a child that is believed to have occurred more than 15 years ago, sheriff’s deputies said Wednesday. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department received a report in the past week about lewd acts on a child that allegedly took place sometime in 2002 and 2003 in La […]
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Authorities say three children have been rescued from the back of a U-Haul truck that was carrying drugs in Tennessee, and three North Carolinians have been charged in the case. The Tennessee Highway Patrol told reporters Monday that a bystander in Cocke County called authorities last week to report seeing children being locked in the […]
