While the murder of her 2-year old son and the attempted murder of her older son are just about egregious a series of crimes as there can be, we still can’t help but notice the absence of the words “child abuse” and/or “domestic violence” in this story.
That said, Michelle Kehoe received consecutive sentences for first-degree [...]

5-year-old Shaniya Davis’ body was found in a wooded area in North Carolina.  Her mother, Antoinette Davis, is charged with human trafficking and felony child abuse.  Allegations have surfaced that the mother had offered her daughter for sex in exchange for money.
Sadly, it was her father, Bradley Lockhart, who offered to allow mother Antoinette Davis [...]

In the United States, parental kidnapping is not as uncommon as some might think.
In this alarming Florida case, 7-month old Shannon Dedrick was allegedly kidnapped by her mother, Chrystina Lynn Mercer, along with accomplices Elizabeth and James Arthur Baker.  Susan Elizabeth Baker was the child’s babysitter.  Early reports are that the baby’s father, James Russell [...]

Mother of 3, Sharon Hinojosa, allegedly deliberately set fire to her boyfriend’s home. Shockingly, the intended target of her rage, boyfriend Justin Whisler, escaped injury. However, her two children (not fathered by Whisler) daughter Alayna Hinojosa, 3, and son Anthony Hinojosa, 4 - burned to death in the inferno. Sharon Hinojosa apparently [...]

In Maryland, 25-year old Myron Antonio Gibson “wrestled” with his girlfriend’s son, DeSean Tyrese Wade, so severely that he killed him.  Gibson is charged with 1st-degree child abuse and not murder because the medical examiner has not ruled the death a homicide.  From the article:
Gibson told detectives he elbowed the boy about 10 times in [...]

2 children are severely burned and 1 died as a result of a fire that erupted in their home while their mother abandoned them for a beer-run, among some other items she shopped for at midnight on September 17th, 2008.
Prosecutors say Nicole Allen went out for a midnight beer run and was several blocks away [...]

It one of the more absurd allegations of felony child abuse, a father who insisted (using rather colorful language) his daughter turn the music off that was coming from her computer was met instead with  a return volley of vulgarities from her.
When he threw a slice of pizza at her, striking the girl in the [...]

Katherine Nadal, a drug abuser, apparently chopped the penis and testicles off of her then 5-week old son and left him for dead.
Although her defense attorney is reportedly going to trot an alleged “expert” out to support her contention that the family dachshund at the genitals off of the infant, leaving nothing but a perfectly [...]

Yet, the mother who has been charged with 2nd-degree-murder in Lakesha’s death has not been arrested and is free to roam around in public despite the gruesome details surrounding this poor, disabled child’s death
From the article:
Authorities say a sibling found Lakesha dead on Aug. 20, 2006, at the family’s duplex in Hinckley, about 80 miles [...]

8-year old Robert Manwill is missing after an unsupervised visitation with his mother, Melissa Scott Jenkins.  Police suspect the worst and have ramped-up the search following new leads apparently obtained after a search of the abusive mother’s apartment.
What’s particularly disturbing about this situation in the first place are these details from the story…
According to court [...]