MANITOWOC — More detailed charges have been filed against Jesse Vang, the 39-year-old Two Rivers man who reported 3-year-old Elijah Vue missing in February. Vang is being held at Manitowoc County Jail and is now charged with felony chronic child neglect. An amended criminal complaint was filed for Vang March 19. The document, similar to the […]
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2 facing drug, neglect charges after property search
Mar. 21—Two people were arrested Tuesday morning on several felony drug charges after police executed a search warrant on their southeast side residence. According to a Howard County Sheriff’s Office media release, 28-year-old Celie J. Jackson and 33-year-old Todd A. Warren are each facing a level 2 felony charge of dealing a schedule I, II […]
Georgia couple accused of child neglect after being found ‘heavily intoxicated,’ asleep on Daytona Beach
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A young couple from Georgia was arrested Saturday afternoon after Volusia County deputies say they found them drunk and asleep in the sand in Daytona Beach, and their children were nowhere to be found. An anonymous caller reported the couple to 911, and it took a deputy eight attempts to wake […]
Drunken parents who passed out on Florida beach face child neglect charges, cops say
A vacationing Georgia couple ended up in jail after too many drinks on the beach left them incapable of keeping up with two children, ages 5 and 7, Florida investigators say. It happened Saturday, March 16, at Daytona Beach and concerns were such that a Volusia County deputy checked for a pulse when the couple […]
CYFD makes ‘steady progress’ in reducing backlog of abuse, neglect investigations
Mar. 9—New Mexico’s embattled child welfare agency says it has made considerable progress reducing a jarring backlog of more than 2,000 reports of alleged abuse and neglect. Two nationally recognized experts on child welfare reform sounded the alarm in January on “a clear and urgent safety risk for children,” saying New Mexico needed to take […]
Prentiss County indicts five mothers on child neglect, endangerment
Mar. 6—BOONEVILLE — A recent Prentiss County Grand Jury handed down indictments charging five women — four mothers and a grandmother — with felony child neglect or endangerment. The Prentiss County Sheriff’s Office served the arrest warrants over a four-day period late last week. kAmy2J=2 q6E9 qF==2C5[ be[ 2?5 $J=G:2 s:2??6 %9@>2D[ e_[ 3@E9 @7 […]
Search underway for missing 3-year-old Wisconsin boy as mother, man face neglect charges
An intensive search is underway for a missing 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who a district attorney alleged was sent to stay with a man “for disciplinary reasons.” Manitowoc County District Attorney Jacalyn LaBre made the allegation in court Friday in reference to the disappearance of Elijah Vue, who was last seen Tuesday. LaBre referred Vue’s mother, […]
3 found guilty of child neglect, endangerment in Red Lake Nation
Feb. 21—RED LAKE — Three people have been found guilty of felony child neglect for depriving children of food, clothing and other necessities between February 2022 and January 2023 in Red Lake Nation. According to a release from the U.S. Department of Justice, during that period, 55-year-old Robin John Roy, 29-year-old Nicole Robyn Roy, and […]
Mom accused of letting child wax nude women arrested, charged with neglect
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The woman accused of posting her child waxing nude women on social media has been arrested and charged, according to Memphis Police. MPD, DCS investigating photos of child waxing nude woman at salon Jasmine Moss, 30, is charged with misdemeanor Child Neglect and Child Abuse. On February 15, Memphis Police received several […]
Bullet through West St. Paul apartment ceiling leads to child neglect charges upstairs
A report of shots fired inside a West St. Paul apartment building last week led to police finding fentanyl pills on a woman’s kitchen floor and prosecutors charging her with child neglect, according to a criminal complaint. Police responded to the shots fired call at the apartment building in the 1070 block of Waterloo Avenue […]
Ames resident arrested on three counts of animal neglect for hoarding 27 cats
Authorities have arrested an Ames resident for allegedly hoarding and neglecting animals in what one veterinarian described as the worst conditions they had seen. Jennifer Thompson, 42, was apprehended on Thursday, Feb. 1, for two counts of animal neglect and one count of animal neglect with injury after police officers found 27 cats living in […]
Poverty is not an excuse for child neglect
A mother in Jackson, Mississippi, was recently arrested and charged with child neglect after taking a toddler wearing only a diaper to Walmart in freezing temperatures. Other shoppers confronted Kambria Darby while her child was visibly shivering and she was tossing frozen food in the cart with him. News reports said she cursed at them […]