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Police: Pregnant woman tried to run car off the road
HOBBS, N.M. (AP) — A pregnant New Mexico woman is facing charges after police say she tried knocking a car off the road while two children sat in her backseat. The Hobbs News-Sun reports Shaniece Langley was arrested Sunday and charged with abuse of a child and criminal damage to property. According to...
Colorado Supreme Court rules child abuse not applied in womb
DENVER, Colo. (AP) — The Colorado Supreme Court ruled anyone injuring an unborn baby cannot be prosecuted for child abuse. The court's 4-3 ruling Monday is binding even if the infant is born and survives an in utero attack with lifelong injuries, The Denver Post reported. The majority of justices found the...
Lawmaker who ran for governor pleads not guilty to charges
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky lawmaker who ran for governor last year has pleaded not guilty after he was accused of choking a woman with an ethernet cable and trying to “hog tie” her during a domestic dispute, his lawyer said. Attorney Conrad Cessna told the Lexington Herald-Leader on...
Warrant: Police find remains of second child in yard
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The remains of a second child that belonged to a Tennessee couple facing abuse charges have been found buried in a yard, court records said. A search warrant affidavit says police recovered the remains of a boy from a Knox County property where Michael and Shirley Gray lived until...
Wichita man accused of kidnapping, raping runaway girl
WICHITA, Kan (AP) — A Wichita man has been charged with the kidnapping and rape of a runaway girl he lured into his car, police said. Gerardo Aguero-Hernandez, 26, was arrested Thursday on charges of rape, aggravated kidnapping and aggravated battery, television station KAKE reported. The victim was...
Medical examiner identifies bodies as missing Tulsa toddlers
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma medical examiner’s office confirmed Friday that two bodies found in Tulsa-area waterways are sibling toddlers who have been missing since last week. Three-year-old Miracle Crook and her 2-year-old brother were last spotted alive on security video at their east Tulsa...
Sheriff: 2-month-old stabbed in head as parents fought
WILSON, N.C. (AP) — A 2-month-old is hospitalized with a skull fracture after being stabbed in the head during a fight between the baby’s parents, a North Carolina sheriff’s office said. The Wilson County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were dispatched to a home early Wednesday after a...
Former sheriff's deputy gets 21 years for sex abuse
HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A former Lewis and Clark County sheriff’s deputy was sentenced Thursday to nearly 22 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child for molesting a girl over a period of a dozen years. Virgil Allen Wolfe was arrested in February 2019 on 80 state...
Sheriff: Florida woman accused in death of 4-month-old baby
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (AP) — A 28-year-old Florida woman is accused in the death of an infant who was left in her care, sheriff's officials said. Samantha Mariel Angeles De La Rosa was arrested Wednesday in the death of the 4-month-old girl, Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd said in a statement. The baby's name...
Philippine court convicts American of online child abuse
MANILA, Philippines (AP) — A Philippine court has sentenced an American to life in prison on charges of sexually exploiting Filipino children using webcams to sell videos, photos and livestreams to buyers abroad, an official said Wednesday. The conviction of David Timothy Deakin is a strong warning to...
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