James and Mary Mast live in Stover, Missouri, with their three children. Their 4-year-old daughter recently lost her life, purportedly at the hands of their neighbors.
The Mast family reportedly attends the same church as their neighbors, Kourtney Aumen and Ethan Mast. (Ethan is not related to the Mast family.)
An Illinois teenager was incarcerated after allegedly sexually abusing a 7-year-old in the view of a first-grade online class and their instructor.
18-year-old Catrell Walls is a senior in high school who resides in Chicago. He reportedly works full-time in the field of construction and has been diagnosed with ADHD.
In the afternoon on October 15, a 7-year-old girl was visiting a relative in the same home with Walls.
A Pennsylvania man was taken into custody and charged after he was accused of raping the mother of his children and giving instructions about how to smoke weed to their 3-year-old.
33-year-old John Yurasits lives in Mount Holly Springs with his 3 children and their mom. The couple reportedly has a newborn, in addition to a 2-year-old and 3-year-old.
In May, the woman filed a complaint with Child Protective Services alleging Yurasits had sexually assaulted her several times and that she was afraid he might hurt the children.
While a two-month-old child’s parents were allegedly engaged in a brutal confrontation, the baby was reportedly stabbed in the head and needed hospitalization for the injuries.
Wilson, North Carolina, residents 21-year-old Angel Marie Webb and 21-year-old Eusebio Munoz Jr. recently became new parents.
On May 27, Webb and Munoz Jr. allegedly began disputing early in the morning, and the discord reportedly led to Webb picking up a screwdriver and wielding it as a weapon towards her husband.
Three people are accused of child endangerment after five children were reportedly discovered in a handmade wooden box attached to the bed of the pickup truck in which they were traveling.
On the afternoon of May 12, the temperature outside was recorded as having a high ranging being between 90 to 100-degrees in the Needles area of San Bernardino County, California.
According to a release from the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department, near 2:00 pm, the authorities received from a phone call requesting service at a rest stop claiming there might be youngsters riding in the back of a pickup truck inside a crate. The caller reportedly suspected the children might be in danger.
A man from Perry County has been accused of being involved in a situation involving rape and child pornography after it was discovered that he allegedly sexually abused an 8-month-old baby.
21-year-old Zachariah Wicker lives in Perry County, Ohio.
Though the circumstances which led to the authorities investigating Wicker were not released, the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office, National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), and Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force (ICAC) got together with the Perry County Sheriff’s Office to look into the man, who they believed was involved in sexual offenses involving a child.
The mother of a 7-year-old girl in North Carolina was taken into custody after one of her relatives called the authorities and claimed that the child was being abused.
26-year-old Thao Thanh Nguyen and her 7-year-old daughter live in High Point, North Carolina.
On November 25, the High Point Police Department was notified by one of Nguyen’s family members who informed the authorities that they believed the woman was physically abusing her child.
A 15-year-old girl has been accused of abandoning her newborn into a dumpster on a day that was recorded as reaching temperatures over 100 degrees.
On Tuesday, a teenage girl in Stockton gave birth to a 6-pound 7-ounce baby boy.
Just before noon, a man who lived in an apartment complex heard sounds resembling those of a crying baby or a kitten, and he believed they were coming from an area outside where a dumpster was located.
A superintendent of an Indiana school district has been accused of insurance fraud after she reportedly brought a student for medical treatment and said he was her son so that she could use her insurance to cover the services.
Casey Smitherman is the superintendent of a school district just outside of Indianapolis in the small town of Elwood, where many of the residents are reported as falling into the low-income category.
Smitherman had become acquainted with a 15-year-old boy who attends school in Elwood and she reportedly felt concern for the recent conditions at his home. She stated that she had, on occasion, given the teen clothing and assisted with household chores to try to provide a bit of relief.
A 33-year-old man who fathered the child of an 11-year-old girl is facing felony charges for sexual abuse, but he denies that the birth was the result of a sexual encounter between the two.
New York resident Robert Cronin, his fiancée, and their 5 children live together in a home in Niskayuna.
In November, an 11-year-old girl with whom Cronin is acquainted gave birth to a child at a local hospital and Cronin was confirmed as the biological father through scientific testing.
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