An adoptive mother of four was criminally charged after she was accused of inflicting years of vicious abuse upon one of her children.
47-year-old Patricia Diane Hyler and her husband live in Pace, Florida with their four adopted children.
Hyler, who has experience as a teacher from working at Capstone Academy, and as a teacher at a church, has reportedly homeschooled the children for the past two years.
A woman is facing charges after police discovered she had a 6-year-old child reportedly living in deplorable and unsanitary conditions such as boarding with dogs with heavy flea infestations and feces-covered floors.
58-year-old Toni Reid lives with a 6-year-old child in an area in Fort Walton Beach, Florida.
On April 22, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office received notification that Reid was locked out of her home, and it was believed that a child was the one who had barred her from entering.
A woman from South Carolina allegedly recorded a video while she drove a vehicle with her youngster seated on the hood and she is facing a felony charge for the incident.
26-year-old Thrista Johnson is a mother of two who lives and works in Rock Hill, South Carolina.
On April 26, Johnson reportedly took her 5-year-old daughter for a car ride in a purportedly illegal fashion by allegedly sitting the child on the hood of the car near the front windshield while she drove in the area around her apartment building.
A grandmother in Indiana has been accused of burning her young granddaughter after the child had a bathroom accident, soiling herself and the sofa with urine.
49-year-old Lebanon, Indiana resident Greta Feil was recently reportedly taking care of her two grandchildren while they were visiting her from their home state of Alabama.
Over the few weeks that the children were staying with Feil the Department of Child Services was called with reports a total of five times due to purported sounds of domestic unrest. The callers said they could hear screaming and profanities coming from inside the residence rather often.
A Florida couple is facing charges after they allegedly stole a Donald Trump campaign flag from a neighbor’s property during the night with their children in tow.
41-year-old Geoffrey Michael Fraiche and his wife, 38-year-old Laura Ann Webb-Fraiche, are both gynecologists who are employed in different hospitals in Pensacola, Florida.
The married couple, who lives in Gulf Breeze with their two children, reportedly drank a little alcohol which allegedly caused them to become mischievously playful.
A couple from New Jersey has been charged after they reportedly threw a party with nearly 50 guests while their five children were amongst the crowd.
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy issued an executive order to the people of the state on March 21 placing a temporary ban on all social gatherings with the intention of curtailing the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
The mother of a 3-year-old girl was incarcerated and charged after it was asserted that she withheld food, neglected at home and medically, and abused the child to the point that the youngster almost died.
24-year-old Celia M. Lara-Licon lives in Joplin, Missouri, and she is the mother of three children with different fathers.
According to news sources, Lara-Licon, who received physical custody of her 3-year-old a year and a half ago, is in the midst of working with the Missouri Department of Social Services regarding each of her children and their respective dads.
A married couple in Illinois is facing several serious charges after a gun was allegedly discharged in their home in front of five children.
On March 26, 36-year-old Shari Beintema called the authorities and reported that she needed assistance regarding a situation at her home involving herself and a male.
Another person had also notified the police and they reportedly said that they thought they heard a gunshot from the same address.
The owner of a New Jersey convenience store reportedly created her own sanitizer and sold the bottles to the public, and several children were allegedly burned after using it.
47-year-old Manisha Bharade owns a 7-11 store in River Vale New Jersey.
Since the widespread outbreak of the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), people have found it increasingly difficult to obtain items in high demand, such as hand sanitizer.
A man who was pulled over by the police allegedly used his baby as a human shield in a purported attempt to hold off the officers.
Last Monday, the Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office reported that officers were pursuing a suspect on Interstate 10 that they believed was involved in a situation relating to “a child custody/Baker Act issue.”
When law enforcement officers succeeded in getting the driver of the vehicle, identified as 31-year-old Zachary Taylor McKinney from Defuniak Springs, to obey their command to stop and interact with them they spotted an infant in the car with the man.
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