Friday August 29, 2008.

Irma and Evelio Hernandez Cruz

Parents face charges after Cops find Kids home alone (Manassas)
Irma Hernandez Cruz, 23, is in anguish over a decision that resulted in her kids being taken into protective custody. Early Wednesday morning, she was running late for work and left her sons—4-year-old Christian and 6-year-old Jean Pierre—at home alone sleeping. She says she thought the babysitter was on the way.
"The babysitter was supposed to come, but never showed up," said 29-year-old Evilio Hernandez Cruz, Irma's husband.

China Arnold

Mom cooks Baby in Microwave (Dayton)
A prosecutor says an Ohio mother intentionally put her month-old baby in a microwave oven and cooked the child to death.

Fabian Meza

Boy, 9, beaten in Daycare (Toronto)
The nightmare unfolded when Fabian was attacked by three young boys in the playground of Etobicoke's Willowridge Child Care Centre.
The bullies, who were 10 and 11 years old and also in the supposed care of Willowridge staff, used a metal bat and a wooden brick to pummel the young boy's head and body.

Daycare owner faces Charges of sexually assaulting two young girls - Video (Columbia Falls)
Pete Ampudia, 48, is charged with sexually abusing two 5 year old girls at the daycare at his residence, The Little Engine That Could Daycare.
Ampudia is accused of molesting one girl in his care, and another girl, from December 2007 to April 2008.
Ampudia could face up to 400 years in prison for 2 charges of sexual intercourse without consent and two counts of sexual assault.
Ampudia's bail is currently set at $100,000.

Sunday August 24, 2008.

Charles Nicholas Johnson

Babysitter arrested for raping 9 y.o. boy (Tampa)
A babysitter is under arrest after police say he had sex with a 9-year-old boy.
25-year-old Charles Nicholas Johnson is facing two counts of capital sexual battery and other charges are pending.

Little Hero

Firefighters Honor 6 y.o. for saving Babysitter's Life (Union, KY)
A six-year-old boy is credited for helping save his baby-sitter's life during a medical emergency.

Tuesday August 19, 2008.

Missing Nanny

Sightings of missing Nanny lead to renewed appeal (Yorkshire)
POLICE in Bradford are re-appealing for information on the whereabouts of a 32-year-old woman who has been missing since June.

Babysitter accused of drugging, sexually assulting young girl (Nova Scotia)
The abuse started in early 1994, when she was seven years old, and continued until she finally stood up for herself at age 14, said the 22-year-old complainant, who cannot be named because of a publication ban.

Babysitter found Guilty of murdering baby girl (Queensland)
A TEENAGE babysitter who killed a 14-month-old girl in a fit of jealous rage described as 'malevolent' has been found guilty of murder.

Saturday August 16, 2008.

7 year-old boy kept chained by Parents for 5 months (Bulgaria)
A seven-year-old child was kept chained by his parents in their home in an alleged bid to keep him away from “bad company.” Other Reports say it was because they couldn't afford a Nanny.

Former Nanny Kidnapped, Suspect claims she stole Safe (Worcester)
Mr. Eisenhauer apparently came to Worcester Thursday afternoon on the hunt for a small safe containing cash, jewelry and two handguns that someone had stolen from his home in Connecticut, police said. He immediately suspected his former nanny, a 17-year-old city girl, and her boyfriend, a 19-year-old city man, police said.

Update from Sat. Aug. 9, 2008: Toddler's drowning ruled accidental (N. Kingstown, R.I.)
Police released the name Tuesday of the 18-month-old who drowned in a fish pond last Friday while at his babysitter’s North Kingstown home.
The child was identified as Luke Metro, son of Paul and Pamela Metro, of 19 Sodom Trail, Exeter.The State Medical Examiner’s office performed an autopsy and ruled the boy’s death an “accidental drowning.”

Suspect held in slashing of 1 year-old's neck (North Philadelphia)
With a horrified look on her face, a mother raced to her North Philadelphia home from work yesterday after receiving word that her 1-year-old had been slashed in the neck. Only minutes earlier, terrifying screams were heard coming from the two-story, beige-and-white house after a man had kicked in the front window, according to the neighbor and other residents.

Wednesday August 13, 2008.

Girl Divorced at 10, was forced to Marry man three times her age - Video (Yemen)
Nujood Ali is 10 years old, but she already has been married and divorced. It was an arranged marriage in which she said a husband three times her age routinely beat and raped her.

Babysitter gets Prison time for burning little boy (Waterford)
The babysitter accused of deliberately burning the feet of a 2-year-old boy in Waterford is heading to prison.
Chasity Pasinello was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years behind bars.

Man Guilty in starving death of boy kept in closet (Denver)
A man who agreed to care for his ex-girlfriend's 7-year-old son was convicted Tuesday of murdering the boy by starving him to death while confining him to a tiny closet.

Tuesday August 12, 2008.

Babysitter faces 30 counts of molesting children (Oak Harbor, WA)
A 21-year-old Oak Harbor resident who admitted to molesting boys and girls, ages 3 to 12, while he was babysitting them is facing 30 counts of sex-crime charges, according to court documents.

Monday August 11, 2008.

Nanny faces charges in death of newborn (Lower Paxton Twp.)
A Brazilian nanny faces charges in the death of her newborn son, whose body was found Friday wrapped in a towel that had been placed in a plastic shopping bag in the closet of her room, Lower Paxton Twp. police said this afternoon.

Saturday, August 9, 2008.

Babysitter bailed over accused rape of four-year-old (Perth)
A man accused of raping a four-year-old girl has been granted bail. Stephen John Cracknell, 26, of Kenwick appeared in the Perth Magistrates Court today, charged with the aggravated sexual penetration of the girl he was babysitting in Osborne Park last month.

Babysitter accused of sexually assulting 6 y.o. girl gets 23 years to Life in Prison (Utica)
Emotions ran high during Friday's sentencing of Michael Chicherchia. The 27-year-old will be spending 23 years to life behind bars for sexually assaulting a six year-old girl.

Ft. Carson Soldier Lied about Baby being held for Ransom (Colorado Springs)
Police are now saying the Fort Carson soldier who called police saying his child had been kidnapped and held for ransom lied about the whole situation. That man is now at the center of a child abuse investigation.

Toddler dies in N. Kingstown fish pond (N. Kingstown, R.I.)
A one year old boy has died after falling into a fish pond. The toddler was in the care of a babysitter when he wandered outside and into a small pond in the home's backyard.

Thursday, August 7, 2008.

Celebrity Nanny Jasmin Schmidt caused brain damage when she shook baby (Yorkshire)
Jasmin Schmidt, 32, who had previously worked for an A-list celebrity, shook the child violently after he appeared “angry” during a restless night.

Babysitter Arrested for Baby's 2006 Death (Colorado Springs)

Tuesday, August 5, 2008.

Jessica Stiles won't be winning "Mother of The Year" anytime soon. (Davenport)
Shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday, Stiles wanted to go to a party. So she decided she would leave her baby with the man she’d been living with for two days, along with the man’s aunt.
But the aunt wouldn’t have it, police said.“She took the baby outside to a group of males that were friends of the mother,” Davenport police Capt. Dave Struckman said Monday afternoon. “She told them, ‘She’s your friend, you watch the baby.’”
The men, police said, were considerably loaded. After another hour or so of drinking and babysitting, they came up with a plan: Call the cops and claim someone dumped the baby at the curb.

Man kicks in door, points gun at Teen Babysitter (Chandler)
Chandler Police arrested a man early Sunday after they said he kicked down a neighbor's door and pointed a shotgun at a 15-year-old while the teenager was caring for four small children.

Franklin man charged with sexually assulting 16 year-old Babysitter (Franklin)
A Willow Grove Road man has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl, police here said Monday.

Monday, August 4, 2008.

The Dungeon Dad: Josef Fritzl


Vienna, Austria - The Austrian man who held his daughter captive for 24 years and fathered seven children with her may be charged with slavery, a prosecutor said Monday.

Sunday, August 3, 2008.

Child Sex Offender ordered back to Jail (Ft. Lauderdale)

Mother Pleads Guilty To Killing Babies (Corpus Christi)

Nine charged in Death of Disabled Girl (Philadelphia)

Man charged in Death of 11 mo. old Daughter (Marion, Va.)
Travis Ray Hester, 26, was charged with first-degree murder on Friday after his infant daughter died on July 27, the day after suffering head injuries from an incident the previous day, said Marion Police Investigator Andrew Moss.

Saturday, August 2, 2008.

Andrea Kelly - Mother
Disabled Teen dies from severe neglect (Philadelphia)
For days before Danieal Kelly died in a fetid, airless room — made stifling hot by a midsummer heat wave — the bedridden teenager begged for something to drink until she could muster only one word: water.
Unable to help herself because of her cerebral palsy, she wasted away from malnutrition and maggot-infested bedsores that ate her flesh. She died alone on a putrid mattress in her mother's home, the floor covered in feces. She was 14 but weighed just 42 pounds.