45 years for mother who suffocated her 6-year-old son and dumped his body on a dirt road because he was an ‘inconvenience’
A mother was jailed for 45 years today for suffocating her six-year-old son in a motel room and dumping his body along a dirt road. Julianne McCrery, 42, of Texas admitted killing Camden Hughes by kneeling on his back and covering his mouth with her hand. The discovery of his body last May in Maine [...]
Woman who murdered her toddler son in house of squalor and left body in cot until it ‘mummified’ is jailed for 15 years
A woman who murdered her toddler son and left his body in a cot for so long it ‘mummified’ was today jailed for a minimum of 15 years. Kimberley Hainey, 37, was found guilty by a majority verdict last month of murdering her son Declan at a flat in Paisley, Renfrewshire. His decomposing body was [...]
Teacher, 40, ‘had six-month sexual relationship with student, 14, after wooing him on Words with Friends and Facebook chat’
A teacher is accused of having a six-month sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student which started through the smart phone game Words with Friends, text messages and Facebook chats. Granada High School math teacher Marie Johnson, 40, from Livermore, California, was arrested and booked on 24 counts of sexual assault charges on Wednesday. Authorities believe [...]
Pamela Joan Rogers a former elementary school physical education teacher, had a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy
Pamela Rogers just couldn’t stay away from the 13-year-old boy she was accused of having sex with. After serving 9 months in jail, she was arrested a second time in 2006 for contacting the boy and sending him sexually explicit texts, photos, and videos of herself. Read more: WikiPedia
Father beat six-week-old baby boy until he was blind and brain damaged
A father, who was driven ‘mad’ by the crying of his baby son, beat and shook the six-week-old so viciously that he was left blind and brain damaged. Nicholas McRoberts, 27, has been jailed for eight years – the maximum permitted – after admitting the attack on tiny Devin McRoberts. After the brutal beating, McRoberts [...]
Former Marine pleads guilty to tossing son off boat ‘after he wouldn’t stop crying’
A drunken father who tossed his seven-year-old son overboard in a busy California harbour, forcing another boat to veer to avoid hitting the boy, has been sentenced to rehab. Thirty-five-year-old Sloan Briles, a former Marine from Irvine, avoided jail by pleading guilty on Monday to felony child abuse and endangerment. He was sentenced to three [...]
Iowa mother arrested in death of twin girls
A Huxley woman deliberately killed her two newborn girls not long after giving birth last week and left them in the trunk of her vehicle, authorities said today. ackie Burkle, 22, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and charged with two counts of first-degree murder. If convicted, she will spend the rest of her life in prison. [...]
Convicted child rapist arrested in attempted Arlington kidnapping
A convicted child rapist is back behind bars for allegedly attempting to snatch a 12-year-old Arlington girl off the street on Sunday. Arlington police say the girl was walking in the 18300 block 31st Ave. NE when 24-year-old Fredrick Thurmond grabbed her and tried to drag her into a nearby wooded area. The girl fought [...]
The Haditha killings
The Haditha killings (also called the Haditha incident or the Haditha massacre) refers to the incident in which 24 Iraqi men, women and children were killed by a group of United States Marines on November 19, 2005 in Haditha, a city in the western Iraqi province of Al Anbar. At least 19 of those killed [...]
Doctors testify in murder trial of man accused of savagely beating girlfriend’s 4-year-old son to death
The desperate battle to save a brutally beaten boy’s life was recounted in graphic testimony by doctors who tried in vain to revive him in a Michigan hospital. Brandon Hayes, 25, stands accused of mercilessly beating Dominick Calhoun over a period of four days, before leaving the 4-year-old to die on the floor of his [...]