child deaths

The roommates of University of Kentucky cheerleader Laken Snelling allegedly heard her giving birth and later snuck into her room when she went to get McDonald’s and found a dead newborn stuffed in a black plastic bag in her closet.

A 21-year-old University of Kentucky student is accused of hiding her dead newborn in a towel and a trash bag in a closet, police said. 

Police found a newborn baby dead in a park near the east side of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Monday. 

A Texas mother is accused of leaving her 15-month-old child to die in a hot car in 95-degree weather while she went to work.

A suspected drug dealer is facing murder charges in connection with the fentanyl deaths of two babies in May and August of 2023 in San Jose, California, Santa Clara County prosecutors said.

A 1-year-old girl died in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, last week after being attacked by her family’s pet pit bull. 

Six people are facing charges of murder and endangering the welfare of a child after an infant died from exposure to meth and fentanyl in Lincoln County, Missouri, according to law enforcement.

The grieving parents of a 14-year-old boy who died after falling from a Florida amusement park ride have been awarded a $310 million sum from the ride’s Austrian manufacturer, attorneys announced.

A teen has been arrested for allegedly leaving a deceased baby girl in a Safe Haven Baby Box in Blackfoot, Idaho, police said.

A drug dealer in South Florida has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison after distributing fentanyl that led to the overdose death of a baby in 2022.

A dead newborn baby girl was found in a Safe Haven Baby Box in Idaho in October, police announced this week.

The toddler was alive when she was discovered but later died at the hospital, Galveston Police Chief Doug Balli said.

The PragerU short documentary exposes “the forgotten [victims] of violent crime in America, which more often than not is children,” former BLM activist Xaviaer DuRousseau said during an interview with Breitbart News Daily.

The mother of a newborn baby who was discovered dead in a trash bin on the University of Tampa has been charged in the infant’s death.

A New York City man has been hit with a 45-year prison sentence for running a fentanyl mill out of a daycare center, leading to the overdose death of a toddler last year, officials said.

The father of a baby girl named Saij Bonner, who ingested a deadly amount of fentanyl in 2021 while she was in his care, has been sentenced.

A pack of pit bulls mauled a 1-year-old boy to death in Texas after the babysitter watching him left him alone with her teenage daughter.

Tawona Pickens-Johnson, 46, was arrested in a city nearly 500 miles away from where the incident occurred, after law enforcement initially struggled to locate her.

A dead baby was discovered in the bathroom of a restaurant in Manhattan on Monday morning, police and sources said.

A baby boy from the Los Angeles area who died after being found unresponsive at a park in May had ingested fentanyl, the medical examiner said.

A Portland, Oregon, toddler has died of a suspected fentanyl overdose, authorities said.

Three people have been arrested in Augusta, Georgia, following the death of 3-month-old Josiah Noel Seright.

A five-year-old Maryland boy was killed and other children suffered injuries after a bounce house went airborne at a baseball game, local reports stated.

A California mother is facing charges after her 18-month-old baby died of suspected fentanyl poisoning, the Los Angeles Times reported.

A “miracle baby” survived outside for two days in intermittently stormy weather before being discovered crawling along the side of a highway.

A woman in Louisville, Kentucky, was arrested over the weekend after the body of her newborn baby was discovered in the trunk of her vehicle, reports say.

A Las Vegas mother was arrested on June 26 after her toddler son died from fentanyl poisoning, according to authorities.

Police are unsure how a lifeless baby ended up the backyard of a home in Fresno, California, according to local media reports.

A mother and father in North Carolina are facing murder charges after their 16-month-old baby died from fentanyl poisoning.

A couple is facing charges after their baby was found dead on a street in Fulton County, Pennsylvania, according to authorities.

A 12-year-old girl from Houston, Texas, was brutally strangled to death, and her body was dumped in a creek, officials said.

A California woman has been arrested in relation to the fentanyl death of her 1-year-old child in 2023, police said.

A woman accused of stabbing a 3-year-old boy to death in an Ohio grocery store parking lot and injuring his mother appeared to smile in court on Monday as a judge read the indictment against her.

A couple was arrested in Pinellas County, Florida, after a baby in their care died from an oxycodone overdose.

A six-year-old New Jersey girl who died after a tragic freak accident while on a family vacation had a deeply inspiring relationship with God, her father has shared.

A Binghamton, New York, woman has been indicted for manslaughter and other charges after a baby died from eating fentanyl.