Child Endangerment

Police have arrested a man for dropping a child from the second-floor balcony of a hotel on Saturday in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Parents are facing child endangerment charges after a woman discovered a newborn attached by the umbilical cord to his unconscious mother.

A California elementary school teacher who was arrested for being drunk on the job will not face any charges.

Parents in Minnesota are facing charges related to the fentanyl overdose death of their one-year-old baby girl in December of 2023.

A mother and father were arrested in Smith County, Texas, on Monday morning for allegedly hiding fentanyl pills inside their baby’s diaper.

An Ohio mother has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for leaving her 16-month-old daughter home alone to die.

A Florida mother has been jailed for allegedly abusing her baby, after attempting to sell her to a concerned stranger for $500 and abandoning her.

A disgraced Oregon father is accused of giving his daughter’s 12-year-old friends laced smoothies while they were at his home for a sleepover.

The mother is claiming she mistook the oven for a crib while trying to lay her baby down for a nap, officials said.

A New York woman who is accused of shaking a baby who later died is being charged with murder, local media reported.

Police in the border town of Eagle Pass, Texas, observed a migrant tossing a one-year-old little girl into the Rio Grande while crossing the border from Mexico. Police say they witnessed the child going completely underwater in a life-threatening situation.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers recovered the bodies of four migrants from the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass. The drowning victims included an infant who was carried into the border river. The drownings occurred in three separate incidents over a 48-hour period.

A Mexican woman, who arrived in New York City about ten months ago, is now charged with throwing her newborn baby in a trash can at a Staten Island hospital.

A registered nurse who formerly worked at a Long Island hospital was arrested for allegedly slamming a two-day-old baby facedown into his bassinet.

A Texas mother was arrested in Mobile, Alabama, for allegedly leaving her children at home alone for more than two months, NBC News reported Friday.

Texas Department of Public Safety troopers rescued a two-year-old migrant child following a high-speed pursuit near the border. The trooper arrested the driver and turned the migrants over to Border Patrol for processing.

A man in Texas is accused of hitting his wife at least 20 times while she was holding their one-year-old child.

A western New York man, accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife with a shotgun in front of her three children, was freed without bail the day before after he allegedly beat her.

A Chicago woman was arrested for allegedly letting her nine-year-old son hold a loaded firearm, CWB Chicago reported.

A woman accused of tossing her three-year-old nephew off of Chicago’s Navy Pier into Lake Michigan was denied bail by a Cook County Judge.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol agents found a four-year-old migrant boy after human smugglers abandoned him along the border wall. Agents found the preschool-age child by himself with a toy and his parent’s contact information.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents rescued an infant and a toddler after human smugglers abandoned them in the desert. Authorities said the smugglers left the babies in the desert to die.

EAGLE PASS, Texas — An infant migrant died Thursday after Border Patrol agents pulled his lifeless body from the Rio Grande on Monday. His drowning death adds to the deaths of his three-year-old brother and a five-year-old girl in separate incidents on Monday.

A Louisiana woman is accused of stealing from a retail store while her two children ignited a clothing rack on fire earlier in August.

The death toll in Eagle Pass, Texas, continues to climb after Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents recovered the body of a three-year-old boy from the Rio Grande. Agents also rescued a two-month-old boy who is listed in critical condition after a near drowning.

A video revealed a Harris County Child Protective Services employee encouraging a teenage girl to become a prostitute. The child’s mother asked CPS for help with the child who has a history of running away from home.

Tucson Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended a group of 51 migrants after they illegally crossed from Mexico into Arizona. The group included an 11-month-old child and 49 other minors.

A human smuggler and a migrant mother endangered the life of a newborn by engaging in a police pursuit 80 miles from the Texas-Mexico border. The smuggler fled after attempting to sneak through the Falfurrias Border Patrol Checkpoint.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol officials report an increasing number of unaccompanied migrant children being trafficked across the Texas-Mexico border. The sector is already overwhelmed with record-level large migrant group crossings.

El Paso Sector Border Patrol and ICE Homeland Security Investigations agents teamed up to rescue a one-year-old child after human smugglers kidnapped the child. The child is reunited with her mother who was also in Border Patrol custody.

A migrant woman living in Texas told a South Texas border rancher that she “expects” the federal government to deliver her smuggled child to her. A migrant woman, apparently unknown to the family, smuggled the child across the Rio Grande after being handed the child by human smugglers.

Big Bend Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a group of migrants after human smugglers abandoned them in the remote West Texas desert. The group included two infants.

Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents found five unaccompanied migrant children along the Texas side of the Rio Grande. One of the children, a six-year-old boy, suffered an injury while crossing the river by himself.

A four-year-old Nicaraguan migrant child is believed to have drowned after his 32-year-old mother dropped him as she crossed the Rio Grande. The mother lost the little boy as she crossed the swiftly moving border river just south of Eagle Pass, Texas early Saturday morning. Border Patrol agents continue to search for the child with negative results.

A Texas woman was arrested after authorities say they found two toddlers ‘hogtied’ and caged in a locked bedroom of a San Antonio residence.

Border Patrol agents assigned to an immigration checkpoint near the Arizona border with Mexico found an armed human smuggler with three people locked in the trunk of the vehicle. The three migrants included a minor.