An Ohio mother and father are accused of torturing and cruelly abusing their five adopted children. Shackled and slumped Matthew Edmundson appeared in front of a Clermont County Judge to turn herself in, according to our news partners at WCPO. The 49-year-old is facing child abuse charges. The victims are her five boys. First fostered, […]
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Mom accused of torturing children with blowtorch pleads guilty
DALE COUNTY, Ala (WDHN) — An Ariton woman accused of beating and burning her children with a blowtorch will spend the next five years in an Alabama prison. In June, Ashleigh Ableman pled guilty to charges of aggravated child abuse and chemical endangerment of a child and was sentenced to five years in prison, followed […]
Kentucky manhunt ends with arrest of fugitive from SC convicted of torturing a 3-year-old
A fugitive from South Carolina who officials had warned was possibly armed and dangerous has been taken into custody near Georgetown. The Scott County Sheriff’s Office arrested Nathan Ginter, 43, near Newtown Pike and Cynthiana Road, the sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post early Saturday. Ginter was being held Saturday in the Scott County […]
Roseville mom sat on 9-year-old son, torturing him as dad did nothing to stop it
Prosecutors in a Placer County murder case allege that a Roseville mother sat on her adopted 9-year-old son and beat him continuously for about 40 minutes as the boy’s father did nothing to stop it. Cory Albert Blakley, 38, and Kimberly Rachel Blakley, 37, were the adoptive parents of the boy who has been identified […]
Police searching for ‘potentially armed and dangerous’ man accused of torturing a child
Kentucky State Police warned people in Bourbon, Harrison and Scott counties Tuesday that they were looking for a “potentially armed and dangerous” South Carolina man who is accused of torturing a child. Nathan Ginter, 43. was last seen in the Leesburg area in Harrison County, the Cynthiana Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday […]
Miss. Man Gets Death for Torturing, Murdering 2-Year-Old Stepson Because Boy Took Too Long to Find Juice Box
Joseph David Heard was convicted of the murder of Hayden Lee Bataille Harrison County Sheriff’s Office Joseph David Heard Content warning: The following article contains disturbing descriptions of child abuse. A Mississippi man was sentenced to death after he was convicted of torturing and murdering his 2-year-old stepson. Hayden Lee Bataille, the stepson of Joseph […]
Centerville woman accused of torturing dog with shock collar
A Centerville woman has been charged with two counts of animal cruelty and is accused of torturing a caged dog with a shock collar, Billerica police said Saturday. Billerica police say they were made aware of videos showing Amanda Cianciulli, 36, abusing a dog under her custody at a Billerica home earlier this year. Police […]
Two men arrested for robbing, torturing man in Sewickley on Sunday evening
SEWICKLEY ― Allegheny County Police are reporting they have arrested two men connected to a violent attack and home invasion in the borough Sunday evening. According to investigators, witnesses helped identify 30-year-old Dylan Morris and 33-year-old Noah Sadowski, both of Sewickley, as the suspects in a home invasion along Little Street on April 7. During […]
Parents plead no contest to killing and torturing their 4-year-old son, Noah Cuatro
The parents of a 4-year-old Palmdale boy pleaded no contest Friday to murdering and torturing their son, in a case that brought renewed scrutiny on Los Angeles County’s child welfare system. Ursula Juarez, 30, and Jose Cuatro, 32, were accused of killing their son, Noah, in July 2019, just a month shy of the boy’s […]
Delaware judge cites ‘evil’ and ‘extreme cruelty’ in sentencing couple for torturing their sons
DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware woman who was convicted of torturing her two stepsons with the knowledge and help of their father was sentenced Thursday to 106 years in prison by a judge who called the abuse “the most extensive and persistent evil” he has ever seen. Mary Vinson, 46, pleaded guilty last year […]
Charges laid against former SBU official accused of abducting, torturing residents in Melitopol
Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU), in coordination with the State Bureau of Investigations (SBR), has laid charges in absentia against a former SBU official accused of abducting and torturing local residents in occupied Melitopol, the service announced on Feb. 9. Serhiy Handzha, who has been living in exile in Russia since 2014, is alleged to have […]
Court case begins for man accused of beating, raping, psychologically torturing daughter
For more than a decade, a Honduran woman was beaten, raped and psychologically tortured by her father, a man who investigators and state prosecutors say eventually made his way to Miami then blackmailed his daughter into joining him. During her voyage, the woman was smuggled across the border into Texas with the help of a […]