July 29th, 2007
In Pittsburgh, Brandi Morgan, 25 left her one-year-old daughter stapped in her car seat inside a car with the windows and sun roof open during a violent storm that scared the crap out of most adults. The baby was left outside for about 10 hours wearing only a diaper. Passerbys found her covered with leaves, […]
By Former Blogger -- 55 comments
May 26th, 2007
In South Dos Palos, California, Martha Franco, 42 and her husband Jose were arrested for abusing their four-year-old autistic son and beating him into a coma. The mother is charged with attempted murder, child endangerment, corporal injury and battery with serious injury.
Police say the boy’s injuries are horrific and believe he was abused over the course of four weeks. […]
By Former Blogger -- 15 comments
March 2nd, 2007
A few quick updates on the case reported earlier…
Liz Carrol has been convicted and is expected to serve at least 54 years in prison.
Donna Trevino, the birth mother has said she is happy with the verdict and sentence.
Trevino has also filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Liz and David Carrol as well as the agency […]
By joelnet -- 3 comments
February 22nd, 2007
30 year old foster mother, Liz Carroll, made plans to leave her 3-year old developmentally disabled boy alone, while she attends an out of state weekend family reunion with her husband David and their live-in companion Amy Baker. In a seriously major lapse of judgment they decided it best to wrap him in a […]
By joelnet -- 30 comments
February 1st, 2007
Amanda Hamm, convicted of standing back while her boyfriend drowned her children in a car, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. As readers on a previous thread have noted, this means that she could walk out of jail in a year or two, once time served is taken into account. Justice? Um…not quite. Hamm […]
By admin -- 4 comments
January 24th, 2007
Thanks to Sinthyia for the heads-up on yet another story of parents doling out the alcohol to minors. And when I say “minor”, I mean MINOR. 21-year old Stephanie Ann Helton of Phil Campbell, Alabama was busted by the authori-tays when police (for reasons unspecified) were called to perform a “welfare check” on the three […]
By admin -- 6 comments
December 28th, 2006
Being a bad parent is hard, yo! When you choose to neglect your kids, it forces you to make all kinds of difficult choices. Let’s say - strictly as a hypothetical, mind you - that you and your daughter decided to leave her kids home overnight and part of the next morning, so that you […]
By admin -- 3 comments
December 27th, 2006
Now where have we heard this one before? Oh right - it slightly mirrors the case of Sarah Smith, whose boyfriend Ryan Delaroche was hitting booze from a water bottle while driving. In that case, Smith unintentionally poisoned her baby when she used Ryan’s “water” to mix her daughter’s bottle.
In that case, the fault clearly […]
By admin -- 2 comments
December 13th, 2006
Okay. Here it is, today’s story by popular demand. Folks are already searching for this like mad, and reader SuperSnark sent it to me an hour or so ago in a link. What is “it”, you may ask? Why, it is the story of Gardenia Johansson of Scottsdale, Arizona, who was arrested after she tried […]
By admin -- 20 comments
December 2nd, 2006
Thanks to Trench for the heads-up on this story on CrimeRant about Heather Heck. The 23-year-old Loraine, Ohio woman really, really wanted a nice weekend out with her boyfriend. But, alas, she couldn’t find anyone to babysit./ So she did the only logical thing: wrapped her six-week-old child up in a bed sheet (and a […]
By admin -- 76 comments
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