Body of Missing Girl Found, Two Face Charges
The body of five-year-old Shaniya Davis of North Carolina was discovered on Monday, near a rural road, almost a week after she was reported missing. Shaniya’s mother, twenty-five-year-old Antoinette Davis, was arrested and charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse, because authorities allege she was trying to sell her daughter for prostitution. Her sister, [...]
Missouri Police Seek Child Abuse Clues
Authorities are planning to resume their search through a Missouri property where they plan to find bodies and jars with notes documenting sexual abuse. The property was at one point owned by two of the five family members arrested Tuesday. The five have been charged with several felonies, which include forcible sodomy, rape with a [...]
Ohio Children Caged by Adoptive Parents Sue
Two Ohio teenagers that were forced by their adoptive parents to sleep in cages have sued. The lawsuit is against both their adoptive parents and the caseworkers that arranged the adoption. The lawsuit was filed on Tuesday in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court in Cleveland, on behalf of eighteen-year-old Sharen Gravelle and seventeen-year-old Michael Gravelle. [...]
Mom Charged with Locking Teenage Son in Closet
The mother of a fourteen-year-old boy in Oklahoma has been charged with twenty-nine counts of child abuse for illegally torturing and imprisoning her son. The boy says that he was repeatedly locked in apartment closets over the course of four years. Prosecutors also allege that LaRhonda McCall, thirty-seven, and her friend Steve Hamilton, thirty-eight, repeatedly [...]
Michigan Man Gets 45 Days for Biting Boy’s Face
A Michigan man has been sentenced to forty-five days in jail for biting the face of his girlfriend’s five-year-old son. Randall Kirk McGee of North Muskegon pleaded no contest to last month’s charge of third-degree child abuse. The thirty-seven-year-old man was sentenced on Tuesday in the Muskegon County Circuit Court. Police said that McGee bit [...]