Thursday, November 29, 2007

Authorities Weighing Additional Charges Against Babysitter In Child’s Death
Clay County authorities said this morning that it may take several days before they will determine whether additional criminal charges will be filed against a 36-year-old woman accused of abusing a child she was babysitting.
Four-month-old Jacob P. Mattingly, who had been in critical condition at Children’s Mercy Hospital since Monday, died Wednesday evening, police said.


San Jose Babysitter Held on Suspicion of Murder
A babysitter is being held on suspicion of murder after the baby she was caring for died in what a Santa Clara County prosecutor describes as ``a shaken-baby case.'' Authorities say Angelica Duran, 27, is being held on $500,000 bail after ten-month old Rodrigo Salcido died in a hospital Saturday after Duran claimed he hit his head while she baby-sat him earlier in the week.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Norfolk, NE Babysitter Will Be Tried As Adult
A 16-year-old Norfolk, Nebraska teen, who's charged with sexual assault, will be tried as an adult. The teen is accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old and four-year-old girl while babysitting them back in March.

Nanny Rape Case Ends With Mistrial, $2,000 Award
The former nanny for a now-retired Dole Food Co. executive was awarded $2,000 Wednesday in back wages, but jury deliberations deadlocked on her rape allegations against the man, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial on most issues.

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Judge Sends Immokalee Child Abuser ‘Big Albert’ to Jail For a Year
The 3-year-old Immokalee girl had burns on her ear lobes, bruises on her face, arms and legs, and bite marks on her arms.
When asked where they’d come from, she told her grandmother, “Big Albert.”
She said the man, her babysitter’s husband, burned her with a cigarette lighter and bit her, and that “Little Albert” spanked her with a stick.
And, she said, Big Albert warned her that if she told anyone, a big monster would get her.

file this under- know who your children are spending time with!- AK

Friday, November 23, 2007

Woman Convicted of Killing, Dumping Newborn at Hicksville LIRR
Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice announced Wednesday that a judge has found Erma Stephens guilty of 2nd degree manslaughter in connection with the December 2006 death of her newborn son. Nassau County Judge George Peck also found the 35-year-old, who worked as a nanny at the time of the crime, guilty of tampering with evidence. He acquitted the defendant of the second-degree murder.

Baby-Sitter, 26, is Given Probation in Infant's Death
A judge has sentenced a baby-sitter to 2 years' probation in the 2003 death of an 8-month-old child. Catherine Fencl, 26, of Belleville, Illinois pleaded guilty but mentally ill to involuntary manslaughter Wednesday in the death of a neighbor's child, Christopher Thayer.

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Babsyitter Arrested After Parents Watch Nanny Camera Tape
A Texas babysitter faces felony charges in Harris County after a Spring couple accused her of physically abusing their 17-month-old daughter. Robin Renee Mayberry, 23, was arrested and charged with one count of injury to a child under 15 years old, a third-degree felony punishable by two to 10 years in prison and a fine of up to $10,000. She was released on $5,000 bond. Mayberry and her attorney, Gary F. Beauchamp, appeared before state District 179 Judge Michael Wilkinson on Tuesday in Harris County. Harris County Assistant District Attorney George Weissfisch said the parents, Steven and JaNae Acquard, contacted police after they saw the alleged abuse on a surveillance video monitoring activity in their home."We have a videotape of the actual offense," he said.

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Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Two-Year-Old Found Wandering After Babysitter Falls Asleep
Police were called to the scene and they found the 15-year-old babysitter who was supposed to be caring for the little girl. Police have referred the case to the Department Of Children and Families, but no charges are expected.

Monday, November 19, 2007

Texas Nanny Caught on Tape Allegedly Injuring Child
A nanny is caught on tape accused of injuring a young child in her care. That nanny knew cameras were rolling and authorities say she struck the child anyway. The mother says she met her children's nanny at a daycare. She convinced the woman to come and work inside her home, where surveillance cameras were always rolling. She thought everything was going well until she turned on her computer last week and saw video you may find disturbing. (The video is very upsetting-JD) View the video here.

Friday, November 16, 2007

Babysitter Pleads No Contest to Killing Toddler
In her statement to police the babysitter Chantal Randall said, "Rosie (17 months) whinned out and grabbed my hair pulling. In a split second, I made a horrible wrong decision to strike out at her hitting her with my knuckles and the back of my fist into her mid section sending her back and down to the floor on top of scattered toys with a thud and back about three feet toward my love seat." In her written statement, she also wrote, "I saw right away something terrible had happened to her. She was not responding to me, my touch, or words and she had her eyes closed and was not making any sound or did not seem to be breathing. I picked her up and spoke to her and noticed that she wasn't holding her body up on her own. She was limp and unresponsive. I knew that she was dead but it felt surreal like a bad dream. I just held her in a blanket talking, crying, begging, praying for at least an hour and a half."
Chantal, who is 31, plead no contest to child abuse resulting in death. She faces 20 years to life in prison. She will be sentenced in January.
Read the full story here.

Still No Trial for Babysitter Accused of Killing Child
It's been two years now, and still no trial for a babysitter accused of killing the child in her care. Heather Sandage of Tell City was arrested and charged with battery resulting in death in 2005.
Doctors say seven month old Izaak Harney died of shaken baby syndrome. In the past two years, the Harney family's endured a lot of setbacks. And just learned the trial date has been postponed again. Read the full store here.

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

East Hartford Teen Spared Jail in Child Rape Case
The mother of a little boy who was raped by East Hartford teenager Louis Moreau said the plea deal that spares Moreau prison time is "ludicrous." Moreau, 17, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single count of risk of injury to a minor in Hartford Superior Court.
Moreau was a babysitter for the little boy and his older sister when in the winter of 2005, the boy told his mother Moreau had held him down and assaulted him on several occasions. Subsequent interviews with both children revealed Moreau also touched the little girl, police say. Read the full store here.

Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Toddler Returned to Sitter After Wandering Off
Florida Department of Children and Families was notified Monday after a 4-year-old child was found in the middle of the street alone. An officer was summoned to the scene and asking the child questions when a white female came outside from a nearby home and began calling the child’s name. The woman was later identified as the child’s babysitter. She told Kostera she and the child went to sleep for an afternoon nap around 1 pm. When she woke up about 40 minutes later, she said she found the front door open.
Was the nanny terminated?

Nanny Dies in 'Terrible Accident'
A NJ woman was struck and killed by a car while crossing the street toward the Winston Towers apartment complex, where she worked as a live-in nanny.
Svitlana Parnyuk, 59, died instantly around 10:45 p.m. Saturday when a southbound car struck her near Palisade and Wayne avenues as she tried to cross the street, police said Monday.

Monday, November 12, 2007

Family of Dead Infant Speaks Out
A 10-month old infant died from shaken baby syndrome in daycare during the summer of 2006. The 14-year-old believed responsible for Jennifer Ciprian's death is scheduled to go on trial in Juvenile court on Wednesday. (Read More.)

Donations to "Christian's Fund" may be dropped off at any branch of the Pioneer Savings Bank.
TROY, NY - Friends and family gathered at the Uncle Sam Lanes for a bowl-a-thon to raise $3,200 for the Cails, a family who have lived a nightmare after learning their 2-year-old son Christian was placed in a tub of scalding bathwater. His longtime babysitter, 24-year-old Chastity Pasinello of Waterford has been charged. On Oct. 1, Christian' Cail's mother Becket Cail received a phone call at work from Pasinello informing her that Christian had suffered very bad burns. Both Becket and Dillon Cail, Christian's father, rushed to the hospital. Christian was transferred to the Westchester County Burn Unit where the Cails spent weeks, refusing to leave their son's side. Christian suffered second and third degree burns on his feet and the family was in a state of shock.

Sunday, November 11, 2007

Toddler Found Dead At Babysitter's Home In Queens
Police are investigation the death of a 10-month-old Queens boy at his babysitter's home.
Brian Luo was found unconscious and was taken to Flushing Hospital Saturday where he was pronounced dead. He apparently had a cold earlier in the week and was prescribed medicine for the illness, police said.

Friday, November 9, 2007

Baby Sitter Sentenced to Five Years in Jail in Child's Death
A 27-year-old Broussard woman found guilty of killing an 11-month-old baby was sentenced to the maximum punishment of five years in jail today.
Katie Savoy, 27 of Broussard was arrested and charged two years ago for the murder of 11-month-old Lane Leger, who suffered traumatic brain injuries while in her care that led to his subsequent death.
Savoy was the child’s baby sitter.

Thursday, November 8, 2007

1-year-old Who Nearly Drowned at Babysitters' is Released From the Hospital Jomal Archer, who does not yet walk, was at the Florida home of babysitter Chantal Valcourt on Monday when Valcourt started preparing dinner in the kitchen and the boy went missing from the living room. (Read More.)

CT Toddler Dies After Being 'Shaken'
A 2-year-old boy who was shaken until he lost consciousness and subsequently not taken to the hospital by his caretakers until nearly 24 hours later died Tuesday afternoon at the Connecticut Children’s Medical Center in Hartford. Many have wondered why the child's sitter who reportedly observed the child to have been neglected failed to report the parents to the proper authorities. This is another case where had a babysitter had the strength and intelligence to speak up, a child would be alive today. (Read More.)

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Carroll County Man Charged with Sexual Abuse
A Taneytown man has been arrested on charges he sexually abused a baby sitter. Thirty-nine-year-old Gregory Trakney is charged with sexually abusing a minor, third-degree sex offense and contributing to the condition of a child. According to court records, the baby sitter went to Trakney's home on October 5th to spend the night with his two children. The charging documents say that when Trakney returned, he gave her beer and a shot of peach-flavored alcoholic drink. (Read More.)
-submitted by Christine A. who suggests that parents, "never allow their children to babysit for people they don't know. Too many things can go wrong".

Girl Could Face Charges After Driving With 8-Year-Old
A 14-year-old Stillwater girl could face charges, after she took an 8-year-old neighbor for a ride in her mother’s car. (Read More.)

Tuesday, November 6, 2007

Trial Begins in Death of Baby Left at LIRR Station
Long Island Rail Road conductor Joseph Maldari testified about a morning last year where he found in a cardboard shoe box, was a newborn child lying face-down amid tissues and other trash.
Prosecutors said in opening statements that Irma Stephens, who worked six days a week as a live-in nanny in Woodbury, never intended to keep her baby. She told no one she was pregnant and bought no baby clothes or diapers before the birth. (Read More).

Friday, November 2, 2007

Babysitter Accused in Death of Infant

Demelin Castillo, 24, of North Plainfield, was charged with second-degree endangering the welfare of a child and was arrested at the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office Thursday, Prosecutor Wayne Forrest said. The baby was pronounced dead at about 12:23 p.m. Thursday at Muhlenberg Regional Medical Center in Plainfield.

On Thursday, police responded to a 911 call from the North Plainfield home of Demelin Castillo. When police and emergency personnel arrived at the home, they said they found the baby to be unresponsive and lying face down on a futon mattress on the floor. He was wearing a jacket that police said would have constricted his movement. (Read More.)

Dresser Falls, Killing Child
The boy was supposed to be napping with his brother and sister. The three are triplets. When the nanny went to check on them, she found the boy under the dresser, not breathing. (Read More.)

Shaken-Baby Lawyers May Clash Again
After mistrial, the DA's office and the defense prepare for a retrial.
Both sides in the case of a nanny who is accused of shaking a Roseville baby and causing fatal brain injuries indicated Thursday they are prepared for a second trial. The case ended in a mistrial Wednesday after a jury deadlocked at 10-2 for the conviction of Veronica Martinez Salcedo. Juries must vote 12-0 to reach a verdict in criminal cases. (Read More.)

Ashland Man Gets 30-Year Sentence in Sexual Abuse Case
Thirty years in prison, for a Montana man who abused a toddler left in his care by her foster mother. A federal judge this week sentenced Ricky L. Sandcrane under terms required by a law that toughened penalties for sex crimes involving children. (Read More.)

Thursday, November 1, 2007

Toddler ID's Burglarizing Babysitter
Police in Minnesota are searching for a man fingered as a burglar by the toddler he was babysitting.The man was caught in the act after a burglar alarm went off at a house in St. Paul, The St. Paul Pioneer-Press reported. He fled on foot leaving a car behind with the 2-year-old inside.The boy told officers that "Uncle Al" had been with him but had run away.In addition to the boy, police found stolen power tools in the car, which belonged to the toddler's mother. The burglary suspect is not related to the child.The man was still at large late Wednesday. (Source: UPI)