Articles Tagged with children

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A mother is facing charges after being accused of creating pornographic content with her two youngsters and the family dog and uploading the files to Snapchat.  

In August, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children opened an investigation after an anonymous tip was given about a Snapchat account that allegedly contained video footage of a male toddler having sex with an adult woman. 

The suspect was identified as the 26-year-old mother of an infant and a 3-year-old boy.  

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An allegedly inebriated driver and her drunk passenger were accused of endangering eight youngsters who were riding in the vehicle with them. 

It was reported that on the evening of September 8, a 27-year-old woman was driving in the parking lot of a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City. A 30-year-old man was sitting in the passenger seat, and eight children, ages 4 – 13, were also in the truck. Some of the kids were sitting in the truck bed. 

Another driver in the lot notified the police that their car had been hit, and when officers with the Oklahoma City Police Department arrived, they noted that no one was harmed. 

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It was reported that for the past 8 months, people in a residential neighborhood in Daytona believed one of the men in the community was allegedly stalking their youngsters. 

The 55-year-old man allegedly acted inappropriately toward a dozen children in the area where he lives in. He reportedly filmed the youngsters as he drove past them while they were playing outside. He additionally allegedly yelled comments at them using a bullhorn loudspeaker. 

Eleven reports were filed with the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office about separate incidents.  

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A special education elementary school teacher was arrested after three families accused her of physically and verbally assaulting their children. 

Last May, two teacher’s assistants reported that a special education teacher at Grassfield Elementary School in Chesapeake, Virginia, was treating some of her students abusively. The assistants said they saw the teacher hurting the children in her class. 

One of the three students the teacher is accused of harming is 11 years old and non-verbal. The child’s mother said her daughter had a recent behavior change, and she believed it was due to the alleged mistreatment of the girl. 

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After a night of camping on Cemetery Island with her three children, a woman and her boyfriend reportedly disappeared and allegedly left the kids to fend for themselves. 

Courtney Danielle Taylor has three kids, ages 12, 13, and 15, and they live in upstate South Carolina. 

Cemetery Island, known to some as “Ghost Island,” sits in Lake Hartwell. The island is home to an estate owned by a Revolutionary War soldier, and many grave sites are still accessible. 

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A mother in Texas lost her job as a deputy and is facing felony charges after being accused of using a taser to abuse her three children.

34-year-old Xochitl Ortiz resides in a home in Houston, Texas. She lives with and financially provides for her three sons, ages 11, 12, and 16.

Ortiz has worked in law enforcement as a deputy constable at the Harris County Constable’s Office for the past two years.

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A woman and her wife allegedly abducted her biological children in Missouri and took them to Arizona without permission. 

Brittany Barnes is married to Ceairah Beverly. Barnes has three biological sons, ages 8, 9, and 10, of whom she does not have custody. According to reports, she lost custody of the children at the beginning of the year due to a few legal issues that she is currently dealing with. 

On the morning of March 23, Barnes showed up at the Springfield, Missouri home of her children’s paternal grandmother, who currently has physical custody of the boys. Barnes retrieved her sons for an unsupervised visit. 

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An elementary school worker in Georgia has been arrested for allegations of stealing pills from the campus health clinic where the students’ medications are stored.  

33-year-old Shandel Davies is employed at Dewar Elementary School in Valdosta, Georgia. 

Since some of the children that attend the school rely on medications during the school day, the Lowndes County School District has a system in place for safely storing and dispensing the doses. 

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Former soccer player and Olympic medalist Hope Solo was accused of driving under the influence after she reportedly passed out for over an hour in a running car while her children were with her. 

40-year-old Hope Solo (AKA Hope Stevens) was a U.S. Women’s soccer player for 17 years. She won two Olympic gold medals. She has also been on Dancing with the Stars. 

Solo is married to former NFL tight end Jerramy Stevens, and the couple, who reside in North Carolina, has 2-year-old twin boys. 

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A Pennsylvania man is facing many charges after allegedly holding a woman captive in her home for two days and assaulting her while her children were present. 

According to reports, 27-year-old Joshua Manuel Marsh stays in the Pottsville area but currently has no fixed address. 

On March 18, Marsh reportedly placed a call to a woman and asked her if he could stay at her home because he and his girlfriend had been fighting. It was reported that the woman agreed to give him a temporary place to stay. 

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