child abuse
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Couple Kept Their 13 Children in Chains, Which Raises Question: What Kind of White-People Mess Is ‘QuiverFull’?
A creepy-looking California couple were arrested after authorities said they found 13 of their offspring, including seven adults, malnourished and chained to beds in their suburban home Sunday. Critics have wondered why it took so long for authorities to discover the alleged crimes of 57-year-old David Allen Turpin and Louise Anna Turpin, 49. Aside from…
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Police Bust Religious Group Accused of Using Child Slave Labor to Run Fish Markets
A traveling minister and his disciples in North Carolina have been accused of using child slavery to fund their “alternative religious group” and its operations for years, authorities say. Police in North Carolina have arrested four people—and have open warrants on six more—in a case of suspected child slavery. According to multiple outlets, an “alternative…
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Texas Dad Finally Gets Custody of Son Just in Time for Christmas as Mom Faces Charges for Medical Child Abuse
Christmas is going to be really special this year in Ryan Crawford’s household. The Texas dad was granted temporary managing conservatorship of his 8-year-old son after the boy’s mother was accused of forcing the perfectly healthy child to undergo numerous invasive procedures, including 13 major surgeries. The Star-Telegram reports that Christopher Bowen will soon be…
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Yet Another Disturbing Story of a Grown-Ass Woman Messing With a Teenage Boy
It goes against type when an alleged pedophile is a woman; and when we continually read the stories of adult women in “relationships” with teen boys, our heads go into tailspins. It’s like we can’t get through a week without another story of grown-ass women (usually teachers) engaging in sexual activities with teen or preteen…
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Jury Awards Family Millions After Finding Doctor Medically Negligent in Care of Tortured 8-Year-Old Chicago Girl
A Chicago jury has awarded the family of Gizzell Ford, an 8-year-old girl who died at the hands of her abusive grandmother, $48 million after finding that the doctor who had seen Gizzell was medically negligent in his treatment of the child. The jury only needed two hours to make their decision Wednesday. As the Chicago…
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Texas Mom Accused of Putting Healthy 8-Year-Old Son Through 323 Hospital Visits, 13 Major Surgeries
A Dallas woman is facing charges of injury to a child along with serious bodily injury after being accused of putting her healthy 8-year-old son through 323 hospital visits and 13 major surgeries in his short life. Kaylene Bowen, who now goes by the name Bowen-Wright, was arrested earlier this month. For years she claimed…
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Florida Middle School Teacher’s Aide Arrested in Solicitation of Nude Photos, Sex Acts From 2 Students
A teacher’s aide at a Tampa, Fla., middle school was taken into police custody Monday after being accused of soliciting nude photos and requesting sexual encounters from two underage girls at the school. According to the Bradenton Herald, 24-year-old Quinton Bradford is facing charges of obscene communication using computer/devices to solicit and lure children, and…
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Virginia Man in Custody for Sexual Molestation of at Least 21 Haitian Children
Yet another pedophile has been arrested for molesting the world’s poorest and most vulnerable. This time it was a “missionary” from Virginia who was taken into federal custody after admitting to sexual contact with young boys in Haiti, with one as young as 5 years old. James Arbaugh of Stuarts Draft, Va., was reported to…