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The Harris County sheriff said the three surviving children had been 'fending for each other,' with the oldest sibling caring for the other two.... The skeletal remains of a child, and three surviving siblings who appear to have been abandoned, were found inside an apartment in the Houston area, a sheriff said. One of the children, a 15-year-old, called the Harris County Sheriff's Office on Sunday afternoon and told authorities that his 9-year-old brother had been dead for a year and the body was inside the apartment, the office said in a statement. Deputies responded and found the teen, and...

ST. PAUL, MI –A heroic 11-year-old who was shot multiple times was able to tell officers before he died that his mother’s boyfriend shot him and killed his mother and sister, according to a criminal complaint filed Tuesday. Tekeith Jones, 26, was charged with three counts of second-degree intentional murder for the shooting deaths of 33-year-old D’Zondria Wallace, 30, her 14-year-old daughter La’Porsha and her 11-year-old son Ja’Corbie at their home in St. Paul on Saturday.

Santos Rodriguez, 24, was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder. He is being held without bail and is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Tuesday. Officers were called to a hospital and found a 3-year-old boy had been diagnosed with severe head trauma. Rodriguez initially told medical personnel and investigators that the boy, who was his girlfriend’s son, had fallen off a scooter and hit his head on the pavement in the 500 block of West Victoria Street. After an extensive investigation, police say Rodriguez eventually admitted to “losing his temper and repeatedly stomping the child’s head into...

Della Jette and Sterling Jette were Connecticut siblings fatally shot by their mother’s boyfriend in a murder-suicide in Watertown on Tuesday, December 3, police say. Della Jette was 15 and Sterling Jette was 16, Watertown Police said. The suspect in the shooting, Paul W. Ferguson, 42, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said.

FULL TITLE: Girl, 4, with Down Syndrome 'is beaten to death by her mother's boyfriend after she interrupted him' A California man has been arrested for allegedly beating to death his girlfriend's four-year-old daughter, who had Down Syndrome. According to a press release from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, on Tuesday night 24-year-old Adam Hughes was babysitting his girlfriend’s children at their home in the 10000 block of Kernwood Court in Rancho Cucamonga when four-year-old Kylee Willis 'angered' the man by interrupting him. The sheriff’s department wrote that the 5-foot-11, 220-pound Hughes assaulted the special needs toddler and then put...

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — UPDATE, Sept. 3 | Police suspect homicide after the body of a 3-year-old boy was found in a remote area near Lake Mead National Recreation Area, shortly after he was reported missing from Sunset Park. Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Lt. Ray Spencer told reporters Monday morning that two people have been taken into custody as suspects in the death of Daniel Theriot. He identified the two suspects as the boy's 20-year-old mother and her 40-year-old boyfriend. He said he could not disclose any details on the cause or manner of death, but called the circumstances "absolutely...

FULL TITLE: Pictured: Horrific wounds suffered by four-year-old girl beaten by her Russian mother's boyfriend with a belt because she could not count to five This is the deeply disturbing moment a monster shows how he used a belt to strike a defenceless four-year-old girl 15 times in a police crime scene video. The man named as Bakhram, 20, caused grievous wounds to the child 'because she did not count from one to five' when he ordered her to do so. Handcuffed in the crime reconstruction, he showed police how he used the belt. *****WARNING GRAPHIC*****

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — A 19-year-old mother and her 26-year-old boyfriend now face first-degree murder charges in the beating death of 4-year-old Tahjir Smith. Lisa Smith and Keiff King remain in jail without the possibility of bail. Investigators say the young boy had been brutally beaten for spilling his cereal on the morning of January 22. His mother told police she disciplined him after seeing him being “sneaky” and running toward the couch and that he began to stutter, which he did when scared.

OKMULGEE, Okla. -- An Okmulgee man is behind bars after police say he beat his girlfriend's five-year-old because the little boy opened a Christmas present early. The child's mother says her boyfriend was watching her children while she was Christmas shopping Saturday. She came home to something she never thought she would see. She saw bruises to her five-year-old son's back and arms, whelps on his forehead, and an apparent hand print on his cheek. In a Facebook post, the mother wrote, "Words cannot explain seeing your baby like this and having no clue what happened. I ran to him...

Investigators have recovered a body in a creek believed to be 3-year-old Mariah Woods, officials said Saturday. District Attorney Ernie Lee told reporters that divers recovered the body in neighboring Pender County, about 25 miles from Mariah's home in Jacksonville. He added that they were awaiting a medical examiner's report to determine the official cause of death. The body was found hours after Earl Kimrey, the live-in boyfriend of Mariah's mother, was arrested and held on $1 million bond. He is charged with concealing of death, obstruction of justice, second-degree burglary, felony larceny and possession of stolen property. Prosecutors are...

Authorities in North Carolina say they have arrested a suspect in connection with the disappearance of 3-year-old Mariah Woods, a girl whom they believe is probably dead. Earl Kimrey, 32, believed to be the boyfriend of the child's mother, was apprehended Friday, the Onslow County Sheriff’s Department and FBI announced early Saturday. The Jacksonville, N.C., girl went missing late Saturday, prompting her father, Alex Woods, to question his ex-wife’s statement about the girl's whereabouts.

ACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A Jacksonville mother whose twins were shot and killed as she held them is now suing the U.S. government. She says the government could have stopped the shooting that claimed the infants' lives. Megan Hiatt says the U.S. Navy knew her ex-boyfriend Gawain Wilson was agitated and made threats when he left his shift at Naval Station Mayport Nov. 5, 2015. Hiatt's father Travis was helping her move out Wilson's home when Wilson came back from work early. Wilson shot and killed Travis as he tried to protect his daughter. He then forced the Hiatt, who was...

The grandmother of an 8-year-old boy who police said was beaten to death by this mother’s ex-boyfriend told Fox 40 that the boy died protecting his sister from his mother's child-molester ex-boyfriend. Deandre Chaney Jr., 23, attacked Dante Daniels with a hammer and lighter fluid, Fox 40 reported, citing a criminal complaint. Chaney, a reported violent two-strike felon and sex offender, beat Dante in the early morning hours of Sept. 1, while performing a lewd act on his 7-year-old sister, authorities said. The boy died six days later. Dante Daniels never made it to his second day of third grade...

Cleveland woman repeatedly stabs boyfriend after finding him naked on top of 12-year-old daughter, reports sayCleveland police are investigating after a woman stabbed her boyfriend 6 times after seeing him naked on top of her 12-year-old child, police reports say. Cleveland police are investigating after a woman stabbed her boyfriend 6 times after seeing him naked on top of her 12-year-old child, police reports say. (File photo) 28.7k shares By Courtney Astolfi, cleveland.com castolfi@cleveland.com CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A Cleveland woman repeatedly stabbed her boyfriend in a fit of rage after finding him naked on top of her daughter, according to...

ED 209 Gets 80 Years In Prison For KnockingUp Girlfriends Daughter When She Was 10 & 11 Years Old!

HIALEAH, Fla. (CBS12) — Authorities are searching for a man they say set his pregnant girlfriend on fire, all while her two children stood and watched. According to WSVN, Hialeah police say 32-year-old Noel Grullon doused his girlfriend with gasoline and lit her on fire, causing second degree burns to her body. Police say it happened shortly after Grullon and the victim got into an argument on Thursday.

A 41-year-old LaPlace man is accused of using gasoline to set fire to his ex-girlfriend's house while her six children were inside. No one was injured, according to the St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff's Office. The woman's children range in age from 1 to 18, authorities said. The man is not related to the children, according to the Sheriff's Office.-snip-Sampson was arrested later that day and booked with violation of a protective order and aggravated arson of an inhabited dwelling. He also was booked under a warrant with simple battery. Sampson was being held in the parish jail under...

"Virginia illegal immigrant charged in sex abuse case involving 12-year-old girlPublished April 12, 2017 A 40-year-old illegal immigrant from Mexico who had been deported from the U.S. was arrested Friday in Virginia on sex abuse charges involving a 12-year-old girl. Oscar Perez-Rangel faces charges including felony aggravated sexual battery. The abuse allegedly occurred between October and December 2016, Fox 5 reported.The girl was abused while at a daycare center operated by Perez-Rangel’s girlfriend, investigators said....Perez-Rangel was previously removed from the U.S., and has felony convictions for attempted robbery, use of a firearm during the commission of a felony and illegal...

The Butler County District Attorney’s office on Monday charged a 20-year-old man with homicide and rape in the death of his girlfriend's son. Keith Jordan Lambing also faces multiple assault charges in the death of 4-year-old Bentley Miller. Mr. Lambing was captured by authorities about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday after he was found hiding with his mother, Kristen Herold, in the attic of an abandoned home in Butler. He was being sought by authorities after Bentley died from "severe injuries" that District Attorney Butler Rich Goldinger described as "horrible." Ms. Herold, 43, of Butler is charged with hindering apprehension and endangering...

Had it not been for a scheduling conflict for her normal baby sitter, 2-year-old Aaliyah Lewis might have spent the day with her grandfather. Had she not been potty-trained with repeated lashings from a belt and hanger, the toddler might not have required a trip to the hospital. And had her mother sought help right away when she saw her daughter’s injuries, the young girl might have survived. Instead, Aaliyah was baby-sat April 21, 2016, by her mother’s boyfriend, Jamarius Devonti Graham. Graham acknowledged physically punishing the toddler — spanking her 20 times with a belt and striking her with...