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FRANKLIN — A cold case from 1994 that captured national attention was the focus of a significant update from Franklin Police on Monday. The press conference took place at the gravesite of the infant known as Baby Hope, located in Greenlawn Cemetery, marking the first major update on the murder case in several years. On April 13, 1994, two boys searching through a trash can in Temple Park in Franklin for aluminum cans stumbled upon the body of a newborn infant. The preliminary investigation revealed that the baby had been stabbed to death shortly after her birth. The discovery shocked...

***Details and specifics in this story could be considered graphic and offensive to some audiences. Reader discretion is advised.*** Court documents obtained by News 4-Fox 11 have revealed details about a newborn baby found abandoned in a dumpster for at least 10 hours at a Sun Valley apartment complex over the weekend. The Washoe County Sheriff's Office responded to the Elevate Apartments on Sun Valley Blvd. at about 1:30 p.m. on July 5 after a concerned citizen reported hearing a baby crying in a trash can. Upon arrival, deputies met with a family who had discovered the baby boy wrapped...

A Texas man has been arrested after his teenage daughter gave birth in a Walmart bathroom. Officers in Kingsville have said they were called to the store just before 10.30pm on Monday, after receiving a call that a maintenance worker discovered a newborn child in a bathroom trash can while taking out the garbage, KRIS 6 reports. Walmart employees tried to perform life saving measures on the infant and authorities rushed the child to the hospital right next door, where doctors pronounced her dead. In the aftermath, officers reviewed the store's security camera footage and discovered that a 17-year-old girl...

A heartbreaking incident, a 19-year-old woman gave birth to a baby boy inside a moving bus and soon after, the baby was thrown out of the window, which led to his death, according to police. The shocking event took place around 6:30 am on the Pathri-Selu Road in Maharashtra and came to light after a passer-by saw something being thrown from the bus and went to check. To his shock, he found a newborn baby wrapped in a cloth. He quickly called the police using emergency number 112. The woman, named Ritika Dhere, was traveling in a sleeper coach bus...

ATLANTA — The family of Adriana Smith, a metro Atlanta nurse who was declared brain dead in February while pregnant, said her baby boy has arrived. According to her mother, April Newkirk, the infant, named Chance, was born prematurely Friday, June 13, around 4:41 a.m. by emergency Cesarean section. Newkirk said Chance weighs about 1 pound 13 ounces and is in NICU. "He's expected to be OK," Newkirk said. "He's just fighting. We just want prayers for him. Just keep praying for him. He's here now." She's now preparing to say goodbye to her daughter. Newkirk said the hospital will...

This was Preston Davey. A one-year-old from England. The baby boy had been placed in the care of two gay men who were in the proces of adopting him. Within months, the men raped Preston to death. The gay men, named Jamie Varley (a head teacher!) and John McGowan-Fazakerley, both worked with children and also face a list of other charges, including possession of CSAM. They will appear in court tomorrow. Rest in peace Preston. I hope one day you and the many victims of these horrific crimes will finally be enough to stop these cruel sacrifices on the altar...

Meghan Markle's heartfelt celebration of her daughter Lilibet's fourth birthday has taken an unexpected turn, with critics on social media using it to fuel a wave of conspiracy theories. The Duchess of Sussex posted a throwback video of herself dancing-at nine months pregnant-in a hospital room, recalling the moments before her daughter was born. But what was meant as a playful tribute has been twisted by online skeptics into a platform for baseless claims. In the clip, Meghan, wearing casual clothes and visibly pregnant, dances enthusiastically to Starrkeisha's "Baby Mama" song. Prince Harry briefly appears before Meghan begins twerking and...

Abandonment and neglect have always been crimes, particularly if they lead to the death of a child. However, following the 2022 overturning of Roe v. Wade, abortion supporters are arguing that when the body of a baby is found, no investigation is necessary. In May, the remains of a baby were found in a dumpster in Ohio, and one vocal abortion advocate had a lot to say about it. KEY TAKEAWAYS: The body of a baby was found in a dumpster at a Toledo, Ohio, apartment complex. Abortion activist Jessica Valenti complained that the death should not have been investigated....

A 1-month-old baby girl was tragically killed when the family’s puppy chewed the infant’s face as her mom and stepdad slept in Queens early Tuesday, cops and sources said. The baby’s mother called 911 just after 6:30 a.m. to report that her newborn was lying between the couple inside the apartment within NYCHA’s Queensbridge Houses when the pair awoke to find the 6-week-old German shepherd, pit bull mix gnawing on the baby’s face, law enforcement sources said. EMS workers responded to the unit on 12th Street near 41st Avenue, but the baby could not be saved, cops said... “She told...

UPDATE, 5/22/25: Authorities have dismissed the charges against a Texas woman found in a Whataburger restroom on December 19, 2024, with her deceased preterm baby (later named “Baby Mary”) in the toilet. Mallori Patrice Strait, 33, had been charged with “abuse of a corpse” and spent five months incarcerated while an investigation was ongoing. She was released from jail on May 15. Though initially, a physician at Metropolitan Methodist Hospital who pronounced the baby dead on arrival stated that the preterm baby was likely between 28-30 weeks gestation (roughly seven months), the medical examiner later assessed the baby at five...

On Tuesday, April 22, a newborn was found dead in a dumpster in Albuquerque, New Mexico. KOB 4 News reported that in roughly three years, this is the fourth case in which a baby was similarly abandoned, resulting in the deaths of three of the infants. According to local station KOAT 7, there are currently no Safe Haven Baby Box (SHBB) locations in Albuquerque. However, every state has a Safe Haven/Baby Moses law allowing for the safe surrender of an infant to designated personnel. In New Mexico, parents may surrender an infant within 90 days of the child’s birth to...

Joy Behar told her co-hosts Wednesday on ABC’s “The View” that President Donald Trump’s plan to offer financial assistance to new mothers is to increase the number of “white children.” Partial transcript as follows: SUNNY HOSTIN: I want to reframe the issue a little bit because when I look at something like this, these proposals, I want to know why and I want to know who is making them. And so when I looked into that, they’re saying that the U.S. birth rate is declining, however, in 2024 there was a 1% increase in U.S. births, but that increase was...

A pregnant Nebraska woman's unborn baby helped save her life after she got into a nearly-fatal car crash, according to her doctors. Kate Via, a 23-year-old outdoors influencer, was 20 weeks pregnant with her son Isaac when her car crashed with a tow truck on November 21, 2024. The young woman was critically injured and is still battling through a rigorous recovery process. But her baby, who was born on Sunday, was miraculously unharmed and even helped her live through the traumatic incident. 'They said the baby saved me a little bit,' Via explained to KOAT, as her doctors said...

A South Carolina mother has been accused of doing the unthinkable: stabbing her newborn infant to death with a letter opener as he was born and in the moments that followed. Authorities say An T. Ngo, 31, fatally stabbed her newborn boy with a “long, metal letter opener” while she was giving birth to him in her home in Easley, South Carolina, on March 7. She then allegedly placed the baby’s lifeless, bloody body in a trash bag and left it outside her door. Her boyfriend later called police, and the child was declared dead at the scene. “I’ll be...

Libs of TikTok @libsoftiktok Cleyret Pacheco-Peraza and Leiwin Lara-Hernandez, two Cuban nationals, were indicted after they admitted to r*ping a one-year-old girl and filming it. The pair was initially arrested in late January. Both currently have ICE detainer holds. Democrats are mad that these types of people are getting detained and deported.

Marcelio Moreira had never been to the United States. He didn’t speak much English. But soon after he learned his wife was pregnant last May, he knew he wanted his daughter to be American... “My daughter’s children and grandchildren will then have citizenship, too,” Naue rejoiced. “She can pass it down through the generations.” President Donald Trump doesn’t think it should be so easy to become an American. Calling birthright citizenship “absolutely ridiculous,” and incorrectly asserting that “we’re the only country in the world that does this,” he signed an executive order in January that revoked automatic citizenship for children...

A publicly funded university in California is killing babies in abortions and turning around and using their body parts for grisly research. A leading pro-life legal group is raising the spotlight on unethical medical practices at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) Medical Center. At UCSF, babies are killed in abortions up to 24 weeks of pregnancy, with the remains of these unborn children used for controversial scientific experiments. Reports suggest that researchers have harvested organs, such as intestines and scalps, from these viable babies and grafted them onto mice. Alexandra Snyder, the CEO of Life Legal, condemned the...

Police Searching for Suspects After Shocking Attack German police are investigating a violent attack at Kusel train station, where a mother and her eight-month-old baby were reportedly forcibly thrown out of a train carriage by a group of migrants. Baby Thrown Face-Down Onto the Ground According to initial reports, the baby fell out of the stroller face down onto the ground after being ejected from the train. Eyewitnesses described the scene as chaotic, with passengers reacting in shock. Authorities have confirmed that the mother and child received medical attention following the incident, though the extent of their injuries remains unclear....

A crew of migrant gangbangers taken down by the NYPD was so brazen about their illegal gun profits that they posted a sick photo of a baby on a pile of their ill-gotten cash. In all, 10 high-ranking members of the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua — including the baby’s heartless mom — are out of commission or on the run thanks to a nationwide sweep. The NYPD seized a cache of more than 30 illegal guns, including AR-15 assault rifles and a Glock 9mm with a trigger modification making it an automatic, in the Tuesday night raids. “Tren...

Brittany Watts was arrested in 2023 and charged with abuse of a corpse following a stillbirth in her Ohio home, and her subsequent attempt to flush the second-trimester baby’s body down the toilet. Now, Watts has filed a lawsuit against the hospital, the City, two nurses, the OB/GYN overseeing her care, and multiple police officers. All charges were dropped against Watts in January 2024 when a grand jury refused to indict her, and she is now suing for damages — including mental and emotional distress, alleging that the police and hospital staff conspired against her. While the lawsuit provides more...