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Forty-six-year-old Steven Smith of Columbus, Ohio was charged with the murder of his girlfriend’s 6-month-old daughter, Autumn Carter. He has since been given the death penalty and is awaiting a May 1st execution. But in a plea for clemency, Smith’s lawyers maintain that even though he intended to sexually assault the baby, he did not intend to kill her. And it just gets more troubling and legally messier from there. More
The tragedies of gun violence in Chicago continue their downward spiral to depressing new lows. After the national outcry at Hadiya Pendleton‘s and Janay McFarlane‘s murders, this latest horror should add fuel to the fire under legislators to make meaningful strides in tackling gun violence. The newest victim is a 6-month-old little girl, Jonylah Watkins, who was shot along with her father while he was changing her diaper. More
It’s a parent’s worst nightmare. There’s a sleeping baby in the back seat, and they just have to grab something from the house or a gas station. They leave the infant for a second, only to find their vehicle and child gone. The very idea brings a lump to my throat and settles a huge weight in the pit of my stomach. It’s the horrific experience of one Chinese father this week, and the outcome of his tragic story has sparked soul-searching across the nation. More
Get ready. This story sounds more like the script to an episode of Criminal Minds than a real piece of news. More than that, it sounds like every parent’s worst nightmare. More
A homeless man discovered the body of 13-year-old Genelle Conway-Allen the morning after she disappeared from her school bus stop in Northern California. Her body was found naked in a parking lot attached to a park, five miles from where she was last seen. Her foster parents had reported her missing when she didn’t come home from school. A police surveillance photograph shows the seventh-grader carrying a Hello Kitty backpack. Police have said that no arrests have been made in the case, and Genelle’s body showed no signs of trauma. The man who discovered her lifeless body says she “looked like a mannequin.” More
I feel like this was kind of inevitable. Casey Anthony is filing for bankruptcy, saying that she can’t pay all of her legal and court fees following the trial for the murder of her young daughter, Caylee. But honestly, when you’re the most despised mother in the world, it’s not that easy to walk into an office and hand them your resume. More
Twenty-eight-year-old Chinese immigrant Li Hangbin is facing a second-degree murder charge for the death of his 2-year-old daughter Annie. The father has been awaiting trial for five years in jail. Initial court proceedings depict him both as an abusive monster and distressed father helping his ailing child. And yesterday, Katie Holmes just decided to pop by. More
As a parenting blogger, there are times when I hear stories that are uplifting or entertaining. I get to talk about social justice and ridiculous celebrities and the miracles of childbirth. Then, there are times when we have to cover horrific tragedies that befall children. These stories are so upsetting that I cannot shake them from my mind or shut off my computer and pretend I haven’t heard them. They make me weep and they make it hard to relax and enjoy my own family. The murder of little Tameria Greene is one of these tragic stories. More
Being “really quiet” or not, I just wish she would go be really quiet at the bottom of a well somewhere. More
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The fraternal suitors who hoped to procure this young Afghan girl as a wife were more than a little put off by her and her father’s “thanks, but no thanks.” More
I don’t know how these people live their lives and simply remember to breathe each day after having their child subjected to terrible acts of violence. It’s a horrible thing that I hope none of us ever have to encounter, but if we ever should, I hope that we are never blamed for these things happening that we usually have no control over. More
Someone in the Anthony household Googled “fool proof suffocation,” on the day that little Caylee Anthony was last seen alive. That information can’t change the outcome of the case, but it can bring back all our old, angry feelings about injustice and Casey Anthony. More
If you’d like to be angry, depressed, and full of righteous hatred, I have the perfect news story for you. More
