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Biloxi, Miss. -- A former Mississippi Gulf Coast police officer is headed to prison for the death of her 3-year-old daughter, who was left in her mother's patrol car while the woman had sex with a police supervisor. CBS Biloxi, Miss. affiliate WLOX-TV reports ex-Long Beach, Miss. police officer Cassie Barker was sentenced Monday to 20 years in prison in the 2016 death of Cheyenne Hyer. The 29-year-old pregnant woman pleaded guilty last month to manslaughter in a plea bargain after being indicted on a charge of second-degree murder. Cheyenne was strapped in her car seat in the patrol car...

Mary Parks was charged in the death of her son back in September of 2007. Parks' nearly two-year-old son died of heat stroke after being left in his mother's car. Authorities say Parks went to pick her child up from daycare, but its staff told her the child was not there. That's when she found the toddler unresponsive in the back seat of the car.

Authorities in Ulysses continue to investigate the death of a seven month old girl who was left in a car during a hot day Thursday. Kynadee Boese passed away Thursday after being left in a car parked at Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital in Ulysses. The infant's funeral was yesterday in Ulysses. Ulysses Police Chief Alan Olson says results of Friday's autopsy are not complete. The Ulysses Police Department, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Grant County Attorney's Office are investigating.yesterdays report: The Ulysses Police Department, Kansas Bureau of Investigation, and Grant County Attorney's office are investigating the death of an infant...

Dear FReepers, I need your prayers tonight. My 14 year old son was killed in a traffic accident today. Please pray for us.

A 3-year-old child died from injuries she suffered after a TV fell on her at 134 Woolworth Wednesday at about 4:30 p.m., according to HPD.

Just on!! School bus collides with tractor-trailer. Seven dead....5 are kids.

Cops: Girl Died While Playing With Family Dog (AP) MANORVILLE A six-year-old girl playing with her dog in the backyard was strangled - when the pet apparently grabbed her scarf and playfully pulled her down to the ground and dragged her around the yard. Suffolk County Homicide Detective Lieutenant John Fitzpatrick calls it "an absolutely tragic story." Police say the accident happened in the backyard of little Kaitlyn Hassard at 4:30 Tuesday afternoon. The girl came home from school wearing the scarf and the dog began pulling on it. The girl's mother put the dog in the backyard and a...

NEWARK, Jan. 9 — A woman sought in the torture and abuse of three young brothers, including a 7-year-old boy whose body was found stuffed in a plastic storage bin in her basement, was captured early today at a Newark apartment, police officials said. The woman, Sherry Murphy, was found sleeping in the apartment around 2 a.m., Lt. Derek Glenn of the Newark Police Department told The Associated Press.

SALEM, Ore. -- The biological mother of the toddler who vanished this weekend and was later found dead in a nearby creek attacked the state's child protective system in a statement issued Monday. Rebecca Adams, 25, of Keizer said she is concerned about the safety of her 4-year-old daughter, who is living with the same foster family that cared for the toddler. "Am I going to lose another child to this family or to the system?" Adams, 25, said. "My children were supposed to be in a safe family in a safe home. This was never supposed to happen." Neither...