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There are more than 3 million child abuse cases in the U.S. every year. According to the non-profit organization ChildHelp, in 2007 there were more than 3.2 million child abuse reports, in which, approximately 5.8 million children were involved. These are just the reported cases – they do not account for the unreported child abuse [...]
In a distressing case alleging child abuse, 30-year-old Heather Dragotta of Weare, New Hampshire and 31-year-old Steve Amos of North Andover, Massachusetts were arraigned yesterday in Salem Superior Court in Massachusetts. They face charges of assault and battery on Dragotta’s infant daughter and also of permitting injury to a child. Dragotta and Amos entered not [...]
A tragic story from West Haven, Connecticut involved Yosue-Amil Sierra Gomez, 22, allegedly squeezing his 6-week-old infant son so hard that 11 ribs broke, causing lacerations to his liver, spleen and hemorrhaging in the boy’s chest. It was also reported that the father had shaken the boy while he was sleeping in his arms and nearly [...]
Closed head injuries occur when a child either experiences a hard blow to the head, or when a child falls, and the brain rocks against the inside of the skull repeatedly. Some of the most common ways children sustain closed head injuries include: falls; sports accidents; and car accidents. In general, accidents at the [...]
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has compiled a list of informative sites when it comes to child injuries, in an effort to provide educational resources across the Web on this issue. Both accidental and intentional injuries inflicted on children are a sad reality, and one of the CDC’s main goals is to put [...]
A distressing news brief out of New Hampshire yesterday left us with an unthinkable case of child abuse. The parents of a 2-year-old girl claim that their daughter inflicted her own injuries on herself and, to what can only be interpreted as their desperate attempts to prove it, they videotaped the girl hitting and poking [...]
A dismal development has made headlines in the case of a baby boy’s death. The mother, 23-year-old Christina Hancock, was arrested yesterday for beating her own 13-month-old son to death on May 12 at their home in Acton, Massachusetts. She was charged with first-degree murder and is currently being held without bail. An autopsy confirmed [...]
Jason Teixeira, 25, from Penacook is being held on $125,000 cash bail, charged with a felony of 2nd-degree assault on his 9-month-old daughter, Mya.
While Lowell police and other Massachusetts authorities continue with their investigation, some progress has been made in the case of an infant who was significantly burned by scalding water while he was given a bath last week. It was reported that the boyfriend of 11-month-old Ivan Yonn’s mother has been arrested and charged with assault [...]
A 2-year-old New Mexico girl died after being left alone in a locked vehicle for over two hours last Friday.
