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The stepmother of a 16-year-old Pomona boy has been charged with murder in the teenager’s death earlier this week, and the boy’s father is facing a charge of felony child abuse, police said Thursday. Jessica Grajeda, 35, is suspected of assaulting the teen just before officers were called to a home in the 600 block of Del Rosa Place about a person needing CPR just after 12 p.m. Tuesday, according to the Pomona Police Department. The victim was not breathing when officers and first responders arrived, police said. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where he was pronounced dead....

Fox News host Tucker Carlson reported on Thursday evening that the stepmother of Atlanta police officer Garrett Rolfe, the officer who allegedly shot and killed Rayshard Brooks, has been fired from her job at a mortgage company in the area. “Until today, his stepmother, her name is Melissa Rolfe, was the HR director at a place called Equity Prime Mortgage in Atlanta, Georgia,” Carlson said. “But today, she was let go. She’s no longer in that role, apparently she was fired and her only crime was being officer Rolfe’s stepmother.” “According to a source familiar with the matter who spoke...

SALT LAKE CITY — A Utah woman charged with a crime after her stepchildren saw her topless in her own home is fighting the case that could force her to register as a sex offender, citing a court ruling that overturned a topless ban in Colorado. Attorneys for Tilli Buchanan argue that the law is unfair because it treats men and women differently for baring their chests. They are asking a judge to overturn her misdemeanor lewdness charges and declare that part of the law unconstitutional. Prosecutors counter that nudity is commonly understood to include women’s breasts in American society...

An 18-year-old ran off with his stepmother after being reunited with his father for the first time since he was a baby, a court has heard. Benjamin Smith met his father Andrew Smith in the summer of last year and moved in to his house to begin the family life both men had never enjoyed. But the emotional reunion went disastrously wrong for the father. His 34-year-old wife Dawn began an affair with her teenage stepson and eventually the marriage collapsed, York Magistrates’ Court was told. The unlikely couple left to begin a new life together 60 miles away in...

JEDDAH, 23 November 2005 — A six-year-old girl was brutally tortured and was mutilated, allegedly by her stepmother, Al-Watan reported yesterday. The first grader at Taif’s 57th Elementary School was taken to hospital by teachers after she came to school completely traumatized. Her teacher noticed burns on her hands and bruises on her shoulders and other parts of her body. Al-Watan said that the teachers were shocked by the brutality of the child’s injuries. The school management contacted the Girls Education Department in Taif and called for an ambulance that took her to King Faisal Hospital. The hospital notified the...

Posted on Tue, Mar. 19, 2002 Stepmother killer sentenced to dieBy MELODY McDONALDStar-Telegram Staff Writer FORT WORTH - Jurors deliberated for just more than 30 minutes Monday morning in deciding to sentence Reginald W. Perkins to death for the robbery and strangulation of his 64-year-old stepmother. Shortly after visiting state District Judge C.C. "Kit" Cooke announced the verdict, the 47-year-old Perkins proclaimed his innocence in a written letter, which his attorney Scott Brown read aloud in the crowded courtroom. "I am sorry that I don't have an answer for the pain and suffering that we are all having, but...