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An Ohio mom pled guilty to murdering her 16-month-old daughter after leaving her home alone in a playpen last summer while taking a vacation. Back in June of 2023, Candelario took a trip to Detroit and Puerto Rico but didn’t want to bring along her daughter, Jailyn. Rather than asking a family member to babysit or hiring a nanny or something, the mother left her daughter home alone. Again, she was only 16-months old. “The 16-month-old child was extremely dehydrated at the time of death. The 16-month-old child was discovered in a Pack-N-Play pen on a liner soiled with urine...

The mother of a severely malnourished 4-year-old found dead last week in Brooklyn would beat her tyke with a belt and force-feed the child sleeping pills, authorities said yesterday. Carlotta Brett-Pierce was especially furious with her daughter, Marchella, because the girl, who weighed a mere 18 pounds when she died, would get up at night and "eat from the fridge and make a mess," said prosecutor Tracey Downing at a Brooklyn Criminal Court hearing.

FAIRFAX, Va. -- The mother who allegedly abandoned her toddler on the Capital Beltway then hit him with the car as he tried to get back in was ordered held without bond Friday. Channoah Alece Green, 22, of Newport News, will stand trial Aug. 26 on felony child endangerment charges. Authorities said that on Tuesday night, Green got angry with her 4-year-old son and left him on the side of the highway near the Lee Highway overpass in Falls Church. She was arrested hours later in Hanover County, about 90 miles south, following a traffic accident there, Virginia State Police...