On August 24 in Niagara, Wisconsin, the video of a young boy’s alleged abuse circulated on social media.
According to reports, a woman was holding the child while his mother allegedly yanked his head around by pulling his hair and caused the youngster to cry out in pain. The woman holding the boy reportedly smiled at the camera and didn’t stop his mother from hurting him.
Florida rapper “Gunplay” is facing charges after he allegedly hurled items at his wife while she was holding a baby and reportedly threatened to shoot her with an AK-47 during a domestic dispute.
Richard Morales Jr. is a rapper in the Triple C’s and one of the stars on VH1’s Love and Hip Hop. The 44-year-old is currently married. Until recently, he and his wife lived in a Miami residence with their 6-month-old daughter.
On August 20, Morales and his wife reportedly had a spat after dinner. He was reportedly being too loud while playing a game on his Xbox, and his wife wanted him to quiet down so their daughter would stay asleep. Things allegedly went south when she confronted him about the situation, and the couple began fighting.
According to reports, the Indiana Department of Child Services in Vanderburgh recently received a report about a situation involving the possible neglect of a 2-month-old baby girl in an Evansville home. The agency reported that they had many prior interactions with her mother and that all her children other than the infant had previously been taken from the home.
When DCS went to the residence and investigated the claims, they said they found the home was unkempt and unsanitary. When they wanted to check the baby’s body to see if she had any visible suspicious marks, the woman refused to consent.
According to reports, the 27-year-old mother of a 3-year-old girl put up a GoFundMe page asking for donations to pay for travel and expenses so she could take her child for a medical procedure in Ohio she allegedly claimed the youngster needed.
It was reported that the child had been to Cook’s Children’s Hospital in the past, and they found out that her mother was taking her to other states for treatment of conditions her daughter had not been diagnosed with. They believed the mother was searching for any doctor she could find to get the procedures done, even though they were allegedly not needed.
On the evening of July 13, a 38-year-old woman and her sister were having a dispute in a Miami home.
The Miami-Dade Police Department went to the residence on a domestic violence call, and the women were reportedly still going at it when they arrived.
According to reports, three adults, six dogs, three cats, and three children ages 2, 4, and 18 months live together in a doublewide trailer in Stillwater.
The Stillwater Police Detective Sergeant stated, “We could not complete the walk-through without taking breaks outside for fresh air. I noticed there actually was carpet in the living room. It was saturated with so much urine and feces and walked all over that it was smashed down to a hard surface. My boots stuck to the flooring.” There was also feces smeared all over the walls and holes in the drywall.
On June 28, a child’s legal guardian had to take her husband to a medical appointment, and she left the boy’s birth mother in charge of taking care of him while she was gone. The guardian reportedly made it clear that they were not to leave her McDowell County home in her absence.
Between midnight and 1:00 am, members of the Logan County Station volunteer fire department went to help a woman that accidentally locked her keys in the trunk of her car. When they arrived, they reported that they saw a child in a diaper and tee shirt standing outside the car. The youngster was allegedly close enough to the road that he could be hit by a moving vehicle.
The longtime family friend and nanny of a toddler in New York was reportedly caught abusing the boy when his mother remotely saw the real-time video from her Ring camera.
A mother of 2 from Newburgh went to work on March 12 and left her 2-year-old in the care of a friend she had known for 15 years.
There is a Ring camera inside the home, and while the woman was at her place of employment, she looked at the app and reportedly saw her friend abusing her child. She said she saw the woman throw her son on his back and slap him several times. The woman was allegedly screaming at the youngster and telling him to go to sleep. The boy was reportedly sobbing during the encounter. The sitter also allegedly put her foot on the child’s head while lying on the sofa.
A 50-year-old mother in Indiana has been accused of neglecting her non-verbal disabled adult daughter so severely that her decomposed flesh left her hip bone exposed.
A Fort Wayne mother who cares for her disabled daughter, who has cerebral palsy and Rhett syndrome, took the woman to Parkview Regional Medical Center to have them look at parts of her body with wounds that were not healing on their own. Her mother explained that they were smaller the previous month but that her daughter kept scratching, causing them to worsen.
The doctors found that the woman’s hip bone and metal rods from a surgical procedure were visible in places where her skin had eroded.
A Florida mother and her boyfriend are facing many charges after allegedly viciously abusing, torturing, and neglecting children in numerous ways, including forcing one of them to drink boiling water.
On May 9, the mom notified the authorities after her boyfriend allegedly assaulted one of the children with a mop handle. After reportedly hurting the 5-year-old, the man left on a four-wheeler.
When the police found the man, he was placed under arrest on suspicion of nearly two dozen charges, including aggravated child abuse, neglect of a child causing great bodily harm, and failure to report child abuse, abandonment, or neglect. He is currently being held in the Volusia County Branch Jail without bond.
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