child murder

A Louisiana mother was found guilty this week of killing her four-year-old son and abandoning her baby near I-10 in 2024.

Many Americans are empathetic to Lindsay Clancy’s claims of mental illness, as evidenced by a flood of donations to a fundraising page set up for her parents.

A 40-year-old Illinois woman who had closely followed the Lindsay Clancy murder trial admitted to killing her 2-year-old son by hanging him from a basement rafter.

In a televised trial that has captivated and divided court watchers everywhere, the defense attorney and judge in the Lindsay Clancy trial got into a war of words Friday morning as jurors continued into their 36th hour of deliberation. https://youtube.com/shorts/M_YEr0CFxUw?si=xkmtw35x2l9H7Cef According

Victims’ families have accused Axel Rudakubana of manipulating the system after it was revealed he was transferred to a psychiatric hospital.

An African migrant has been charged with rape and murder after the body of a two-year-old girl was found in a Surrey town in Southern England.

In the wake of the murder of an 11-year-old girl that shocked the nation, seven in ten people in France believe that there should be a national referendum to decide whether or not the country should reinstate the death penalty for crimes against children.

An 11-year-old Colorado boy is being held by juvenile authorities and may be charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 5-year-old brother.

One of Britain’s most notorious child killers died Saturday, days after he was attacked by a fellow inmate in the workshop of a maximum-security prison.

A man only 10 years into a 20-year-sentence after confessing to the fatal stabbing of a 6-year-old Kentucky boy was released from prison in October and arrested weeks later for violating his parole.

Former small-town beauty queen Trinity Madison Poague cried out in shock as she learned her fate from a Georgia jury after being tried for the murder of her ex-boyfriend’s toddler son.

Professionals and neighbours didn’t speak before a child was murdered by her Pakistani family because they feared the “racist” label.

Forensic analysis is underway to determine if bones found during a manhunt this week belong to the 33-year-old father suspected of killing his three young daughters near a Washington campground in May.

Homicide detectives and California sheriff deputies captured and jailed on Friday the parents of a baby they claimed was kidnapped, which authorities now allege was a lie.

West Yorkshire Police have arrested a 16-year-old male in Huddersfield “on suspicion of murder and rape” of a 13-year-old girl.

Once again, using a cell phone to film rather than to call 911 appears to be the priority of at least one witness as a gang of teens stabbed to death 14-year-old boy on a Bronx playground in what authorities say was a case of mistaken identity.

A young American woman on a European trip taken into custody after she allegedly threw a newborn out of a hotel window in Paris.

Two UK pollsters released research on the death penalty, finding strong support for executing terrorists in the wake of the Southport attack.

A report ordered by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper risks tarring “significant swathes” of the public with the “far-right” brush, critics warn.

The jailing of Axel Rudakubana, who rushed into a children’s party and tried to kill everyone inside has triggered a debate on legal reform.

Rudakubana won’t necessarily spend his whole life in jail because he was days shy of his 18th birthday when he attacked.

Oklahoma has executed a man who admitted to sexually assaulting and killing a 10-year-old girl as part of a sick cannibalistic fantasy.

A six-year-old Michigan boy is dead after suffering “horrific” abuse at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend, with police saying he was mercilessly beaten, stapled to a wall, and shot with a BB gun.

The two Venezuelan migrants charged in the alleged capital murder of Jocelyn Nungaray, a 12-year-old Houston girl, will be held in the Harris County jail on bonds of $10 million each after appearing before a judge on Monday and Tuesday. The two men illegally crossed the border between ports of entry and were released by the Biden administration only to find their way to Houston.

The pair of Venezuelan illegal migrants who allegedly murdered Houston 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray lured the girl under a bridge, stripped off her clothes, and assaulted her for two hours before killing her, prosecutors said.

A Missouri woman has been charged with first degree murder after reportedly admitting to killing both of her children, telling officers she attempted to “sacrifice” her two-year-old son.

Police have accused Nathan Richard Allen and Arnelle Arnelia Floyd of Homestead, Florida, of murdering their six-month-old daughter.

Two members of the Illinois Prisoner Review board have stepped down after granting the release of a man who allegedly stabbed his ex-girlfriend’s 11-year-old son hours after gaining freedom.

The mother of a five-year-old boy — found dead in a suitcase in the Indiana woods — has been arrested after nearly two years on the run.

A law enforcement body cam video taken in the Polk County Jail shows accused child-killer Don Steven McDougal appearing naked before a magistrate judge. McDougal refused to put on clothes for the hearing, where the judge advised him of his Capital Murder charge and ordered him held without bond.

Police have charged a father and daughter with murder and incest after discovering three dead babies in a house in northern Poland.

Lucy Letby, a 33-year-old nurse called the worst child killer in modern British history has been given a life sentence.

Senior doctors said they had raised concerns about Letby as early as 2015 and children might have been saved if managers had listened.

A man convicted of murdering his two infant children will receive taxpayer-funded breast augmentation surgery now that he identifies as transgender.

Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino on Wednesday announced new restrictions on social media to combat an “epidemic” of assaults on children. Dino said website administrators will be required to ban users who “are promoting or supporting attacks or violence against schools.”

The Premium Times of Nigeria reported on Monday that a panel investigating human rights violations in the insurgent-plagued northeast has heard testimony from 50 witnesses on abuses perpetrated by the Nigerian military, including mass abortions and the murder of children.