A driver crossed into oncoming traffic early Sunday morning and slammed into a semitruck, killing a child and sending two adults to the hospital, according to the Idaho State Police. The kid, who was in a child safety seat, died of injuries at the scene. The driver, a 39-year-old woman from Roseville, California, and a […]
SALEM, Ind.—The mother of a 5-year-old Atlanta boy whose body was found in a suitcase in Indiana in 2022 was ordered held without bond Tuesday during a strange initial court appearance in which she claimed she was under federal surveillance for several months before her capture. Dejaune Anderson, 38, is charged with murder, neglect, and […]
A missing 13-year-old boy has been found dead in northern China, and the lead suspects are three of the boy’s classmates. Authorities discovered the body buried in a 2-foot-deep hole in a garden. The victim’s father is speaking out against the tragedy, but the boy’s story is censored inside China.
PHILADELPHIA—A badly decomposed body of a child was found inside a duffel bag by crews who were cleaning a site Monday in west Philadelphia, police said. The body was found in the city’s Mantua neighborhood by workers with the city’s Community Life Improvement Program. It wasn’t immediately clear how the child died, how long the […]
A Georgia couple was arrested on Saturday in Daytona Beach, Florida, after Volusia County authorities found them passed out intoxicated on the beach with their two young children missing. The deputies were called to the scene after an anonymous 911 call, and the arrest affidavit said it took one deputy eight attempts to wake up […]
PUEBLO, Colo.—A child’s body was found encased in concrete in a Colorado storage unit, and officers in Pueblo announced this week they are searching for two other children as part of the homicide investigation to determine if they are safe. The remains were discovered on Jan. 10 when the storage unit was being cleared out […]
WAUKESHA, Wis.—A Wisconsin judge will hold a hearing in April to determine whether the second of two women who nearly stabbed their sixth-grade classmate to death in 2014 to please online horror character Slender Man should be released from a psychiatric hospital. Morgan Geyser, 21, asked Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren on Jan. 16 […]
Investigators long thought a 5-year-old South Carolina boy found strangled in 1989 was killed by his father and stepmother. But it took 34 years of scientific advancement to link microscopic fibers found on the boy’s shirt to a ligature that investigators located at the couple’s home, a sheriff said. Victor Lee Turner, 69, and Megan […]
Elon Musk’s X is now scanning videos and GIFs uploaded to the platform for child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) as part of wider efforts to crack down on child sexual exploitation online. The social media site announced the new measure in a Dec. 28 blog post in which its safety team stressed tackling child sexual exploitation […]
NEWPORT NEWS, Va.—The mother of a 6-year-old boy who shot his teacher in Virginia was sentenced Friday to two years in prison for felony child neglect by a judge who chastised her for abdicating her responsibilities as a parent. The sentence given to Deja Taylor by Circuit Court Judge Christopher Papile was much harsher than […]
As a mysterious wave of child pneumonia surges through China and spreads to adults, various explanations for the outbreak from state health authorities can’t quell suspicions among the public that it’s COVID-19 caused by mutated viral strains. Initially, the authorities denied any “unusual or novel pathogens or unusual clinical presentations” in response to the World […]
KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Police in Kansas City, Missouri, are investigating the circumstances that led to a child’s death in a fall from a downtown apartment building. Police have not confirmed the child’s name but say it was a boy under age 12. Capt. Corey Carlisle said Tuesday that police are still working to determine how far […]
EVERMAN, Texas—A Texas woman who told various stories to explain her 6-year-old son’s absence before leaving the country has been charged with killing the child, who has been missing for a year. Cindy Rodriguez-Singh, 38, was indicted Monday by a Tarrant County grand jury on one count of capital murder, two counts of injury to […]
NEW YORK—The already-alarming proliferation of child sexual abuse images on the internet could become much worse if something is not done to put controls on artificial intelligence tools that generate deepfake photos, a watchdog agency warned on Tuesday. In a written report, the U.K.-based Internet Watch Foundation urges governments and technology providers to act quickly […]
A New Jersey councilman and his son, both of whom are also school teachers, have been released from jail and are now on house arrest after police discovered thousands of images of child pornography in their shared home. Jeffrey Grossman, 65, and Steven Grossman, 24, appeared in the state Superior Court in Hackensack on Oct. […]
IRMO, S.C.—A man wanted by police for child sex abuse crimes shot and killed himself Friday after wounding two federal marshals trying to arrest him at a South Carolina hotel, investigators said. A special team of U.S. Marshals was trying to arrest George Curtis at an extended stay hotel near Columbia when they were fired […]
NEW ORLEANS—A man arrested after a weekend police chase and motorcycle crash in Georgia turned out to be fugitive accused of avoiding a child rape charge by faking his own drowning death last month in a Mississippi River kayaking accident, according to a Louisiana sheriff. Melvin Emde, 41, of Talihina, Oklahoma, had been reported missing […]
FORT WAYNE, Ind.—An Indiana man faces felony charges after he was shot in the back by a 2-year-old boy who found the weapon on a bed, according to authorities. Justin T. Wiley, 32, of Fort Wayne was charged this week with neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injury and unlawful possession of a […]
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares joined a coalition of attorneys general from 54 U.S. states and territories urging Congress to study how artificial intelligence (AI) is being used to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and to introduce legislation to make it easy to prosecute such crimes. “AI use in the production of child sexual […]
Drunk drivers who are convicted of intoxication manslaughter will now need to pay child support if they kill a parent or guardian of a child in a car crash, according to a new Texas law that went into effect on Sept. 1. The law was a bipartisan bill that Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, signed […]
