{News Stories} - Abusive / Dangerous Mothers

{News Stories} - Abusive / Dangerous Mothers

Here are some cases of abusive or dangerous mothers, including the killer moms. (Updated: 2013/09/14.)

  • Marybeth Tinning killed her 9 babies.
  • In June 2001, former nurse and stay-at-home mom Andrea Yates (47) drowned her 4 sons (2, 3, 5, 7) and a daughter (6-month-old) in the bathtub, one by one. (She had to chase the last victim, the eldest son Noah, through the family home to drag him into the bathroom.) During her first trial in 2002, Yates lawyers claimed she believed that the devil was inside her and that by killing her children she would save them from hell. She was initially found guilty of murder but the verdict was overturned on appeal. At her second trial in 2006, she was found not guilty by reason of insanity. She has been in the care of the mental hospital ever since the murders, while suffering from a vagina syndrome that provides a jail-free pass.
  • Florida Mom Tonya Thomas kills herself after murdering 4 children Joel Johnson (12), Jazlin Johnson (13), Jaxs Johnson (15), and Pebbles Johnson (17). A neighbor heard gun shots. Minutes later, 2 of the children arrived on his doorstep. One of the boys (police believes it was Joel) was covered in blood and told the neighbor his mom had shot them. the oldest girl Pebbles could be seen walking back towards the family home. The children's mother came outside and lured the kids back into the house. "She was very calm, called them in. She didn't seem to be stressed or mad, just stepped out. She walked out and said 'come home'." The neighbors say that they called out to the children, begging them not to go back to the house. That was the last time they saw the children. The father of the family lives in Titusville, Fla., and hadn't been home in a few months.
  • Susan Hendricks (49) (who had also killed a man in 2006 and had claimed self-defense, with no charges filed) gunned down her 2 sons, her ex-husband, and her stepmother, because she wanted to collect about $700000 worth of life insurance policies. She tried to make it look like one of her sons killed the others before he committed suicide. She says she was mentally ill at the time of killing the 4 people.
  • Heavily pregnant Fiona Anderson (23) was shown on the CCTV clutching a teddy bear moments before she jumped from a multi-storey car park to her death, after stabbing her boyfriend Craig McLelland (24, he was treated at the James Paget Hospital in Gorleston, Norfolk) and killing 3 of their children Levina (3), Addy (2), and Kyden (11-month-old).
  • South Carolina woman Suzanna Brown Simpson (35) fires on her husband Michael (34) in the head - seriously wounding him (he remains hospitalized with life-threatening injuries), shoots her son Sawyer (5) and daughter Carly (7) dead in their beds, and then flees the scene in the family pickup truck before crashing. She told the stunned paramedics "OK, OK, I shot my whole family", which sent officers rushing to the house.
  • Mafia-linked woman Adele Sorella accused of murdering her 2 daughters Amanda (8) and Sabrina De Vito (9), who were found dead in the family's home.
  • Monica McCarrick (28) used samurai sword ("a sword, a bloody katana-style Japanese fighting sword") to butcher her twin daughters Lily and Tori (3), and then set fire to the flat and propped the lifeless bodies of her daughters against the front door of the apartment in a bid to prevent rescuers from getting in. She was found near the bodies of the twins with a self-inflicted sword wound to the throat. The head of one of the girls had almost been decapitated; the other suffered multiple stab wounds to the stomach. McCarrick had previous arrests for using drugs. She was also involved in a DV arrest in San Diego.
  • Lissette Bamenga (29) charged with two counts of first degree murder for the death of her 2 young children. She fed her children juice spiked with a de-icer, then sealed the apartment's windows with plastic, and then turned on the kitchen stove gas burners. Bamenga believed her husband had gotten another woman pregnant, so she allegedly killed their children to punish him. She allegedly slit her wrists in an attempt to commit suicide but she survived.
  • Heather Lynn Jensen (24) arrested in connection with the deaths of her sons William (2) and Tyler Jensen (4). She is charged with two counts of child abuse resulting in death, two counts of criminally negligent homicide, and one count of false reporting to authorities. She told the paramedics that she left the children in her car with the heat on, but they said Jensen was "very vague" about what had happened. In subsequent interviews with investigators, Jensen's story allegedly changed. She said she had arranged to meet a male friend who she was having "an affair" with, and admitted that she left the boys alone in the car for 90 minutes. Investigators discovered that the heat was set to the maximum level with the fan off; experiments showed that the temperature inside could have reached up to 136 degrees with the heat on for an hour and the windows rolled up.
  • Australian woman Allyson McConnell (34) drowned and killed her 2 young sons Jayden (10-month-old) and Connor (2 and a half) in a bathtub at her home. The boys' father found their bodies floating in the tub. McConnell served 10 months in custody in Alberta after a Canadian court found her guilty of manslaughter (not murder, because she's a woman). She calls herself a "loving mother" and told a newspaper she is open to having more children.
  • Brother Jason (2) and sister Harley (1) die after drowning in swimming pool while their (unidentified) mother slept indoors. The mother woke up to find the two children unconscious in the pool, but did not call 911 because there was an illegal pot-growing operation taking place at the mobile home in La Mesa, San Diego. Instead, she and her friend Larry D'Angelo (in whose home the incident occurred - notice how the man has been identified but not the woman) brought the children to a nearby fire station before D'Angelo fled the scene on foot. Larry D'Angelo was led away from his home in handcuffs after being questioned by police about the marijuana plants in his house (he is being held on $50000 bond). The mother initially told investigators that the incident occurred at a community swimming pool in a nearby mobile home park. But she later admitted that she had lied and that the incident occurred at the friend's home. It is not clear if the mother faces any charges.
  • Emergency vehicles, including those for police, ambulance, and fire paramedic services, swarmed the area of Coleridge Park Drive. 2 children (an infant and a toddler, believed by the neighbors to be 2 months and 18 months old) were found badly injured and alone in a Winnipeg home. They were rushed to hospital in critical condition and later died from their injuries. Police seeks mom Lisa Gibson (32) whom the police believes was the last person with the children. Feminists are already making excuses for the infanticide on the basis of vagina syndrome (PPD - PostPartum Depression).
  • Jackie Burkle (22) arrested for the alleged murder of her newborn twins girls. She had lied to her co-workers in an attempt to hide her pregnancy, but they became suspicious when she showed up for work no longer looking pregnant, and one of them contacted police, who went to Burkle's home to check on her and found the 2 newborn baby girls dead in the trunk of her car.
  • Meredith Katharine Borowiec (31), the Calgary woman accused of killing two of her newborn babies, pleaded not guilty to two charges of second-degree murder on Monday. She was initially charged with attempted murder after a baby boy was found crying in a garbage bin. A few months later, police laid two second-degree murder charges against her. Investigators have said they believe she gave birth in 2008 and again in 2009, and that both babies died soon after they were born.
  • Alex (14) was autistic. His mother Dorothy Spourdalakis (50) and godmother Jolanta Skrodzka (44, live-in family caregiver) believed that he was not receiving sufficient medical care, and decided to put him out of his misery. They plotted for at least a week to kill him. On Friday, they gave him sleeping pills in an effort to induce a fatal overdose, but that didn't work. Sometime later in the weekend, Dorothy stabbed Alex 4 times in the chest, and slit his wrists, nearly severing one of his hands. Then Skrodzka stabbed him several more times. (She also killed the family cat, because the women didn't want their pet going to an animal shelter.) Dorothy had written a letter beforehand, explaining their plan to kill Alex and commit suicide. After confirming Alex had died, the two women took sleeping pills. Alex Spourdalakis was found dead from multiple stab wounds on Sunday in the apartment he shared with his mother and godmother. The two women were found nearby in a semi-conscious state, but uninjured. They were taken to the hospital for treatment. The two later confessed to killing Alex and trying to commit suicide.
  • Indonesian woman (38) from the capital Jakarta killed her son (9) by drowning him in a bathtub filled with water, because he had a "small penis", which she said appeared to shrink further after his circumcision.
  • Sara Ege (33) has been sentenced to at least 17 years in prison for beating her son Yaseen (7) to death because he failed to memorize passages from the Qur'an. She burned his body to destroy the evidence. She had subjected her son to "prolonged cruelty" - She had beat him repeatedly with a stick over several months, causing internal injuries. On the day he was killed, Yaseen had been kept home from school to memorize verses from the Muslim holy book. Ege admitted killing her son in a confession taped by police, but later retracted it and blamed her husband, Yousef. He was tried and acquitted on a charge of failing to prevent his son's death. The judge said she was "a devoted and loving mother"(!) who suffered from depression and had been a victim of DV. The 2.5 years she had spent in secure psychiatric units since her arrest would count toward her sentence.
  • Kristi Anne Abrahams has pleaded guilty to murder of her daughter Kiesha Weippeart (6). On 2010/08/03, the woman (27 at that time) stood before the television cameras sobbing uncontrollably, "If anyone has seen [her daughter] can they please contact the police", which was nothing but drama. The details of exactly what she did to her daughter are yet to come but it is known that Kiesha's stepfather (now serving 12 years for manslaughter and accessory to murder) heard a large bang and ran in to find Anne Abrahams standing beside Kiesha's prone body. The child's remains exhibited wounds consistent with long-term abuse, and serious blunt force trauma suggesting that she had been slammed into the ground or another hard object. The couple kept the child's body in a suitcase for a week after the murder, before disguising themselves and taking her to a bush reserve, where they dumped the body in a shallow grave and set it on fire. Over the ensuing 3 years, as the evidence mounted and members of the Mount Druitt community launched a vitriolic campaign for justice, Abrahams maintained her innocence. Earlier this year she attempted to secure a lighter sentence by pleading guilty to manslaughter. As late as last week she applied for a judge-alone trial on the grounds that vicious comments on the internet meant any jury would potentially be biased against her.
  • A New Zealand woman (28, who cannot be named for legal reasons) has admitted killing her daughter in far north Queensland but will face trial accused of only torture. The woman repeatedly beat the girl with a metal vacuum cleaner pipe, among other forms of abuse, over a period of at least 12 months. The woman whispered "guilty" to the lesser charge of manslaughter instead of murder. She also pleaded guilty to two counts of assault occasioning bodily harm while armed. Her husband (23) is accused of turning a blind eye to the abuse and faces one charge of manslaughter. (And had he tried to stop the woman and she falsely accused him of DV, the man would be in trouble again. In other words, damned if you do, damned if you don't.) Notice how for the woman even a murder has been reduced to manslaughter, and for the man just being a coward has got him charged with manslaughter. And what is the "legal reason" that the killer cannot be named, other than she's a woman?
  • Manitoba mother (35) killed her daughter (5) by subjecting her to a "vicious" 15-minute beating for which she sought no medical attention fearing she'd be caught. The next day the victim was rushed to the hospital where she died after 3 days due to massive organ failure. In the days prior, the mom admitted slapping the girl multiple times. The girl had more than 50 "sites of injury", 22 of which had more than one injury. Judge Sid Lerner credited the woman for her time spent on remand, reducing her sentence to 7 years and 8 months (the Crown had sought 12 years, while the defence asked Lerner to impose no more than 8 years).
  • Lisa Ann Collard (45), apparently suffering from depression, killed her son (5), apparently accidentally, with a lethal dose of methadone in his cordial. She was familiar with the dangers of methadone overdose as her partner had also died of an accidental heroin overdose. She only got a year and a half in prison.
  • Magdelena Luczak (27) accused of starving and murdering her son Daniel Pelka (4, who spoke no English and only a few words of Polish, died in hospital from severe head injuries, and weighed less than 24lb, i.e., 10.7kg - 15lb below the average weight for a child of his age - when he died). The toddler had 24 injuries to his head, body, and all four limbs. Tests showed higher than normal sodium levels in his system. In a campaign of "incomprehensible and escalating cruelty", the boy was locked for days at a time in a room with no door handle on the inside, starved, and force-fed salt as punishment for taking food from the fridge. Finally, Ms Luczak locked Daniel to die in his home-made 'prison cell' for 33 hours after a violent assault. She said she did not call for paramedics because she feared going to prison. She told the court that the boy died after being beaten about the head by her partner Mariusz Krezolek (34), who, she claimed, also tried to strangle her. She says Mariusz didn't allow her to give him food saying that the child was well fed at school. The couple eventually called the emergency services on March 3rd. Ms Luczak said she then lied about events to protect herself and Mr Krezolek. Ms Luczak, who denied force-feeding Daniel with salt, told the court she often saw her child eat, and that she would give him breakfast and a packed lunch every day, "On the way to school I would buy him something sweet and after school Daniel wouldn't eat anymore". (Another child in the family said Daniel was prevented from using the toilet, and pistachios and biscuits were taken for him when he was not allowed to eat. Daniel was said to have been so hungry that he ate out of bins and stole his primary school classmates' packed lunches. One expert in child deaths said his body could be compared to that of a child starving in a concentration camp. When doctors tried to measure his BMI - body mass index - it was too low to be measured on the scale.) Asked what she did about the punishments given to Daniel by Mr Krezolek, she said, "Daniel didn't listen to me... At first I thought it was good that Mariusz was stopping him taking the sandwiches." When asked how she felt as the punishments continued, she said, "Later, I had enough". The trial continues.
  • Raquel Nelson chose to (illegally) cross the street at the bus stop (instead of the nearest crosswalk 0.3 mile away) along with her 3 young children. Her son (4) got hit and killed by a vehicle. The driver was sentenced to 5 years for the hit and run, and was out of prison in 6 months - He remains on probation for the rest of his sentence. Nelson was convicted of 3 misdemeanors: second-degree homicide by a vehicle, crossing roadway elsewhere than a crosswalk, and reckless conduct. However, 2 of the charges were dropped after 2 years. Not setting foot in jail over this incident, she pleaded no contest to the jaywalking charge and paid a $200 fine. Notice how her case gained national attention as an illustration of 'poor road design as a civil rights issue', as if she (being a woman) could not possibly have been reckless or held irresponsible. (And is even being described as the "victim"!)
  • Donna Deaves (29) pleaded not guilty to murder, but guilty to manslaughter of her daughter Tanilla Warrick-Deaves (2), who was found suffering several injuries in the early morning of 2011/08/27 at a house and died in hospital soon after. Brooke Bowen, stepmother to the toddler says the community services should "hang their heads in shame" because her family made 33 reports, and repeated calls to the the FaCS (department of Family And Community Services), with concerns for the girl's welfare. (Looks like she's not aware that the FaCS can't cannot care less about the child, and cannot go against its feminist agenda, which is to separate only the men from the children and family.) AFTER Tanilla was found dead, police said they wanted to speak to anyone who may have known the toddler was being abused before her death. Tanilla's father, Adrian Warrick, is not coping well; "He's an emotional wreck. He can’t face Donna at the moment".
  • Only a day after Jason Hura, father of Duke (2), had unsuccessfully pleaded with an Adelaide hospital's mental health staff to help the boy's mother Rachael Cherie Hadley, she stood on the toddler's mouth and killed him. Mr Hura was told that a health worker would arrive at their home at 10:00 the next day. The ACIS worker had just left a business card in the door of the home to indicate that no one spoke to Ms Hadley. Ms Hadley later refused to let Mr Hura inside the house. He called police, who found Duke's body lying in the cot. As for the killer, "She didn't know she was killing her son", counsel assisting the coroner Amy Cacas said. "She believed she was expelling an evil spirit from him and expected him to recover." Ms Hadley was charged with murder, but was acquitted on the grounds of a vagina syndrome.
  • Chevonne Thomas (33), who according to the records had previously been arrested on charges of endangering the welfare of a child, called police saying she had done something to her son Zahree Thomas (2). (Well, she had decapitated him and put his head in the freezer.) She was on the second-floor when police tried talking her into surrendering, at which point she slashed her own throat and died.
  • Veronica Herrera (29) told investigators her daughter Nakita (2) jumped off a potty chair, hit her head on a heater, and later died. Out of fear of losing custody of her other children, she burned her daughter's body in a barrel, with the help of the other children.
  • High school freshman Cassidy Goodson (14) is charged with premeditated first-degree murder as an adult, and aggravated child abuse, for allegedly killing her son moments after she secretly gave birth in her parents' bathroom. In the days prior to the incident, the teen had showed her mother fake pregnancy tests with negative results to fool her, and concealed her pregnancy by wearing baggy clothing. On the day of the incident, she woke up feeling sick and went to the bathroom. Once sitting on the toilet, she "felt an extreme amount of pressure and a sensation to 'push'". The girl reached for a pair of scissors to "'pry' the child out". After feeling for the child's pulse, which was present, she "placed her hands around the neck of the child and choked it for approximately one minute, to stop the child from breathing". After choking the child, she checked for a pulse again and found none. She then hid the dead child in a shoebox in her room. A medical examiner determined the 9.5 lb baby boy was alive and breathing prior to death, and suffered 32 contusions, hemorrhages, and severe head trauma consistent with blunt force trauma, "which is consistent with the head being struck repeatedly by scissors".
  • Cherlie Lafleur (19) delivered a baby in the bathroom of her high school. She tried to flush the fetus down a toilet, when that didn't work she disposed of the premature baby in a trash can, where the the dead fetus was found at about 22:00 by custodian (janitor). It was male approximately 27 to 28 weeks gestation.
  • Keli Lane (former Australian water polo player) was convicted of the 1996 murder of her newborn baby Tegan, and 3 counts of lying under oath.
  • Erin Pendleton (29) and Griselle Suarez (20) are charged with first-degree murder in separate cases. Denver woman Pendleton, allegedly high on cocaine, gave birth in a sports bar restroom, stuffed the infant in a trash can, and then continued bar-hopping with her friends. The body of her infant son was found early, just hours after another woman allegedly dumped her newborn in a Denver trash bin. Suarez's baby son was found alive in a trash bin but died in a hospital. The story also mentions cases of Alainer Warren (25, who gave birth unexpectedly in a toilet and her boyfriend found the infants dead in the toilet) and the New Jersey teen Melissa Drexler (18, who gave birth in a bathroom during her high school prom, then strangled or suffocated the baby, left the body in the restroom, and returned to the dance floor).
  • In 2007, woman identified as A.D.H., feeling unwell, went to the bathroom of a store. She gave birth to a baby she claims she thought was dead, and left the store shortly afterwards. Store staff found the infant in the toilet and rescued it. A.D.H. was charged with child abandonment, but was acquitted in 2009 because the judge believed she hadn't meant to "abandon" the baby. The Supreme Court of Canada has now ruled that the verdict will stand.
  • Angelica Spanidis (25) has been charged with first-degree murder for killing her newborn baby. The baby has not been found.
  • Sarah Catt (36) aborted unborn baby 'in final stages' (the baby boy was developed fully and was days away from being born). She admitted administering poison with the intent to carry out a miscarriage. Her sentence has been slashed to just 3-and-a-half years at Court of Appeal.
  • Bei Bei Shuai accused of killing her child by eating rat poison while she was pregnant faces charges of murder and feticide after the death of her baby girl in December 2010. Prosecutors said Shuai ingested rat poison in an attempt to commit suicide.
  • Nicola Tedder (32) inflicted a catalogue of cruelties on a child, causing injuries like "something from a horror film": She hit him on the head with kitchen utensils and even rubbed his face in his own excrement if he soiled himself. She plunged her fingers into his eyes, causing him ulcers and abrasions to his eyes. She held his feet against a piping hot radiator until they burnt. She clasped her hands around his throat and pushed him under water. Wearing flip-flops, she jumped up and down on child's stomach with both feet and perforated his bowel (the savage assault led to the child being rushed to hospital suffering from excruciating abdominal pain). A tear was discovered in the boy’s colon and he had to be transferred to St George's Hospital, Tooting, for specialist treatment. The incident led to Tedder being arrested and prosecuted. She was also convicted of 4 offences of assault causing actual bodily harm, and one of child cruelty. Sadistic Nicola denied charges and claimed child was 'clumsy' and had injured himself. She was jailed for 7 years. The judge said the innocent child might well suffer from long-term psychological damage as a result of his suffering at her hands. The victim's school had already noticed that the boy seemed to suffer cuts and bruising with a greater regularity than the normal. "One of the staff remarked last year that the boy was walking like an old man."
  • Klara Mauerova admitted torturing her son Ondrej (8) and his brother Jakub (10). She kept Ondrej locked in a cellar for months. He was beaten, and kept naked, chained, and gagged so he could not scream. Later he was partially skinned and his raw human flesh was fed to cannibal relatives. The two boys told how their mother and relatives had stubbed cigarettes out on their bare skin, whipped them with belts, and tried to drown them. The family had sexually abused them and even made them cut themselves with knives. They were kept in cages or handcuffed to tables, and made to stand in their own urine for days. Mauerova had installed a monitor so she could gloat over her victims' suffering from the comfort of her kitchen. The signals from this monitor were picked by a man's baby-monitor and that is how the abuse was discovered. Police were called, and the boy and his brother, as well as what appeared to be a 13-year-old girl were freed. But the seemingly 13-year-old girl was really Barbara Skrlova (34) - Mauerova's sister and one of the children's torturers - who later ran away to Norway but was found by Czech cops. Another sister Katerina Mauerova and another relative are all accused of involvement in the abuse of the boys. It's also claimed that a man known only as the "Doctor" sent mobile phone text messages to the Mauerova sisters telling them how to abuse the two boys.
  • Mother (whose name the police will not release - they seldom release names when the offender is a woman) charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault, and failure to provide necessaries of life, as the Etobicoke boy (11) clings to life after assault. He was taken by ambulance to the Hospital for Sick Children, where he is scheduled to undergo surgery. He is in the hospital in critical condition with life-threatening injuries. Police had to break the lobby doors to get into the building, where in an apartment they found the boy with head injuries. Another woman was arrested at the scene, but has since been released with no charges. Police have not confirmed reports she may be the boy's sister. Jagruti Vyas, who lives a few doors down from the unit police entered, said she heard screams. The ruckus two doors down from his apartment roused Kumar Ramachandran from his sleep, who heard objects being thrown, screaming that went on for 10 to 15 minutes, and one "big loud noise". On the 11th floor, directly below the unit, resident Christopher Lee said he too heard loud noises coming from the unit which is not unusual "but last night they were louder - like a thud, much louder than usual. It sounded like big objects were hitting the floor." Neighbours say that one of the women under arrest was behaving strangely as she was taken into custody, "She was in the back of the cruiser and blowing kisses and smiling, like she was on drugs or something".
  • American-born, educated, and highly articulate woman (48, former nanny) adopted 3 daughters as babies from foreign orphanages and foster homes. She excluded her ex-husband from her daughters' life and had schooled them at home, leaving them isolated from the world outside. She wanted another child but had herself chosen to be sterilized in 2001 and was also banned from adopting more children. So she forced her adopted daughter (19; she was 13 when her mother told her her plans) to inseminate herself with syringes full of the frozen sperm she bought over the internet. This daughter had coped with her domineering mother by becoming submissive to her, even dropping her voice so she could barely be heard. The mother gave the teenager recordings to listen to which contained subliminal messages, saying: "I am going to conceive a girl". She forced her daughter to follow a special diet of dairy and alkaline foods in the belief the resulting baby would be a girl. The virgin girl 'miscarried' at 14 but later had a baby at age 16 after a difficult labor which left her needing surgery. But the woman's plan fell apart when the newborn came out to be a boy and not a girl. Nurses were worried by her mother's aggressive behavior, including a refusal to let the teen breastfeed her baby, saying: "We don't want any of that attachment thing". And midwives at the hospital became suspicious of her mother's 'pushy and insensitive' behavior toward her and the baby, and raised the alarm when the mother tried to take the newborn baby from the ward. The mother was charged with child cruelty. She initially denied the allegations, accusing her daughter of being a fantasist, and told authorities the girl was mentally ill. The teen told the court she had seen her mother smack her youngest sister regularly, and said she had tied the little girl to a chair when she would not sit still and had stuck duct tape over her mouth for answering back. The mother had also abused another daughter, pouring water over her head. Neighbours described the mother's terrace home as like a 'fortress', with the curtains always closed and no one allowed inside. Social workers were warned three times about the mother, but decided her children were not at risk. On one occasion a social worker closed the case after speaking to the mother on the telephone, without even visiting the family's home or seeing the children.
  • Melissa Ngati (26) pleaded guilty to throwing her youngest daughter (4 nearly, she was 2-years-old at the time the incident happened) against a wall several times head first after the girl vomited on the bed, resulting in a skull fracture and a blood clot to the surface of her brain. It was alleged Ngati had also slapped, punched, and kicked the toddler; Ngati denies kicking. Ngati also tried to force-feed the critically injured girl with a syringe. When the toddler was eventually taken to the hospital, Ngati initially claimed her daughter had fallen off a trampoline before admitting what she had done. Half the skull bone on the right side of the toddler's head had to be removed and replaced during surgery. The girl now suffered from significant problems with the left side of her body - her left arm and leg were weak, she had impaired vision and would always walk with a limp. Doctor recommended she wear a helmet when playing or when at day care because sections of her skull remained soft and vulnerable to injury. She will always have difficulty in running and her lack of dexterity and co-ordination means she will be unable to play normal ball sports. She would be unable to ride a bicycle or drive a car, the right side of her head would always appear flattened and slightly deformed, and she would need life-long medical care.
  • Investigators charged Amanda Lynn Farnsworth (26) with causing severe brain damage to her baby girl (2-month old at that time), who sustained traumatic and life-altering injuries. Police aren't elaborating on the nature of the injuries. The baby remains in foster care; City police Insp. said her quality of life has been seriously affected, "These are life-long injuries". The baby's mother was charged with aggravated assault, failing to provide the necessities of life for a child under 16, obstructing police, and failing to abide by a court order prohibiting her from contacting the child's father.
  • 8-month-old boy Xiao Bao, who lives with his Chinese mother and 2 uncles, bit his mom during breastfeeding. So she stabbed him 90 times with scissors, mostly in the face. One of the uncles discovered Xiao Bao lying in a pool of blood in the yard of their home and rushed him to hospital. Xiao Bao needed more than 100 stitches. Neighbors have pleaded with the local government to take the baby away, but that would add a woman to the child-abusers' list, which is unacceptable to the feminist governance. So they have said that they will not, saying that, even though the mother was not suffering from a mental illness, regardless, the baby still has 2 guardians in the form of his 2 uncles! Notice how the news story does not mention the woman's name.
  • Anna Murphy was arraigned in Pierce County superior court for allegedly trying to kill her baby (3-month-old). After the baby's father arrived home, the woman told him she had thrown their daughter down. He immediately called 911 after seeing blood on and inside the baby's mouth. Murphy said that she thought the baby was trying to kill her, so she in turn threw the baby down and tried to kill her. She subsequently went on a bizarre rant saying that "she was having her first exorcism" and threw her child on the ground because she thought the baby was "traveling to another dimension and was trying to save her". After being taken to a hospital for evaluation, Murphy bizarrely claimed that she was being raped and that she was in a house of mirrors with Hitler. Murphy was eventually transported to jail and faces charges of second-degree child assault.
  • Jodi Rock (19) burned the genitals of her son (13-month-old) with a flat iron. When police arrived at the hospital, where the baby boy was being treated for several broken bones and severe burns to his genital area, the baby appeared to be "glassy eyed" and "withdrawn". Jodi Rock fabricated several different stories to explain her son's injuries, initially pointing blame at her aunt, uncle, and boyfriend. She then confessed to "burning [the baby] with a flat iron hair straighter... she took and closed the iron [on the baby's] private parts". The burned area "raised in a white blister which fell off". The mother said either she or her boyfriend could have hurt the baby's arms as they "both play rough with him... pulling him up by the arms and throwing him up in the air and on the bed".
  • Rickesha Burns (21) charged with sexually abusing her son (2) with a vibrator, forcing it into his anus. The object had to be surgically removed. Police found the boy crying and bleeding from his rectum. Doctors noted that the toddler was also suffering from other rectal injuries as well as a "hanger-type" bruise on his hip and another bruise on his neck.
  • Former debutante and distant relative of post-war British prime minister Clement Attlee, Jill Dudley sexually abused her identical twin boys Alex and Marcus Lewis (49 now). She also occasionally 'passed them around' male friends in London who abused them - She would drop them off at a house and pick them up the next morning. The two men have written a book, "Tell Me Who I Am" (co-written by Joanna Hodgkin), in which they tell their story. Alex had lost his memory at age 18 after suffering head injuries in a motorbike accident. After coming out of a week-long coma, he instantly recognised his twin Marcus, but had absolutely no recollection of anything or anyone else - including his mother and the terrible deeds she had committed. So he relied heavily on Marcus to fill in the gaps of the childhood he'd completely forgotten - and Marcus made a decision to protect him from dealing with what had happened and did not tell him about their sexual abuse at the hands of their mom. Jill was a flamboyant, noisy, dramatic, and eccentric woman, with size 10 feet. She gave the impression of not having a penny to her name, dressing in charity shop clothes, and running a vintage stall. (Later, after her death, the twins were stunned to discover that far from being too poor to feed them properly, their mother had been hoarding money left to her by various members of the Attlee family. According to Alex, it amounted to 'millions'. Behind a concealed door in a wardrobe they also found a collection of sex toys and - disturbingly - a naked picture of the twins.) The twins never had enough food at home - they would wolf down meals at other people's houses because they were so hungry. At their prep school, it was discovered that they were severely dyslexic, and were dumped in a comprehensive, where they were horribly bullied. At home, they were treated like servants. To this day, Marcus finds it difficult to talk about the abuse, which he says was sporadic and seemed to stem from Jill's voracious sexual appetite and total lack of inhibition. Embracing the sexual liberation ushered in by the Swinging Sixties, she moved in a louche, Bohemian world. Alex says of his mother, "She didn't have any boundaries... Whether it was turning up uninvited to our parties and saying inappropriate things to our friends or wearing outrageous clothes, she just didn't think it was wrong." Aged 12, the twin boys had been recruited to serve drinks and canapes to guests at a party. Later, Marcus remembered coming face to face with one of his abusers at that party, "I could see a man in the drawing room who had done unbelievable things to me. And I had to serve him a drink. I was so frightened I peed myself in the hall, right in front of everyone, frozen on the spot aged 12." Marriage had been no barrier to Jill's thirst for sexual adventure. After their father's death, Jill abandoned her twins in a children's home for a year until she was shamed by relatives into taking them back.
  • Mistie Rebecca Atkinson (32) engaged in incest, oral copulation, and lewd contact with, and distribution of lewd material to, her minor son (16). In a hand-written letter to the court, Atkinson pleaded for leniency, saying that a vagina syndrome called GSA (Genetic Sexual Attraction) made her become intimate with her biological son. So she only received 4 years, 8 months in state prison under a plea agreement. According to the boy's father, the mother engaged in sexual comments with her son, treating him more like a boyfriend than her child, "It got to a point where their conversation began talking about harming me and killing off her boyfriend she was (now) living with. She was sending him pictures of her body and basically seducing him."
  • Kellie Park (26) accused of abusing daughter (10-months-old), and then sending to the child's father the abuse videos and a message that read, "I love abusing this kid".
  • Saskatoon woman (32) charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault after she allegedly tried to kill her son (6). Police found the child in a bathroom with a stab wound to his abdomen and a cut on his neck. The woman also had cuts to her wrists and stab wounds to her abdomen.
  • Gold Coast mother (22) is accused of poisoning her previously healthy daughter (4) with chemotherapy drugs since July 2012. During the alleged poisonings, the mother had been posting to a Facebook page in a bid to draw sympathy for her daughter's plight. Her regular updates had drawn sympathy from the page's 8000+ supporters. Her daughter remains seriously ill in hospital.
  • Susan Stillwaggon (35) has been charged with theft by deception, forgery endangering the welfare of a child, and using a child to commit a criminal offense. She allegedly told her son (9) he was dying from cancer, in order to bilk thousands of dollars from people looking to help out. She told friends and family her child has stage 3 Hodgkin's lymphoma. She reportedly raised $3500. Police believes she may have even fooled the boy's father.
  • Obituary about abusive mother goes viral after appearing in the US newspaper. It was written by the children - one of them Katherine Reddick (57, now a psychology consultant for a school district outside Austin, Texas) - of an abusive woman Marianne Theresa Johnson-Reddick, whose horror stories prompted Nevada to become one of the first states to allow children to sever parental ties. Katherine Reddick said she decided to share the story of their painful physical and mental abuse after consulting with her brother, Patrick Reddick (58). They said they grew up with 4 siblings after they were removed from their mother's home and had been estranged from her for more than 30 years. 6 of Johnson-Reddick's 8 children were admitted to the Nevada Children's Home from 1963 to 1964 after they endured regular beatings, sometimes with a metal-tipped belt, and other abuse at the hands of their mother. Little else is known about the abusive mother. She lived in a mobile home with 15 cats up until she was hospitalized for treatment of bladder cancer.
  • The mother Maria Isler (31) and grandparents Rosa and Robert Isler have been charged with child assault after boy (9) reported he was being beaten at home. The boy wasn't allowed to attend school because "he told somebody he gets beat at home". The trio kept him locked in a basement so he couldn't sneak food, and they beat him with spatulas, hangers, and pieces of wood. The trio pleaded not guilty. Bail was set at $100000 each for Maria and Rosa Isler, and $150000 for Robert Isler.
  • The Utah boy (14) has been returned to his father's custody as the two women Robin Willette Rumsey (38, the boy's mother) and Krista Jean Miller (33, her friend) were arrested on multiple felony child abuse and endangerment cases. The two women began a pattern of abuse against the boy two years ago. On one occasion, they poured Tabasco hot sauce into his eyes; on other occasions, the women tried to force the boy to smoke marijuana, poured alcohol over his face, and held him in a basement.
  • Caleb Leverett and his son Parker show on video the harassment and abuse caused to them by Parker's mom (and less directly by his step dad Jason May). Notice in the video how Caleb conducts himself with dignity in the face of a lot of attempted provocation and utter disrespect from his ex-wife, who refers to Parker's real dad as "Caleb" while talking about his step-dad as "father" or "your daddy", a sign of deliberate ongoing Parental Alienation. But the mom knows that her arguments are extremely weak about openly discussing the problems Parker had with wanting to return to her custody. She treated him as if he were her personal property and his needs and wishes came last. But notice the drama and emotional manipulation. She let the tears go as soon as the police show up. She calls the neighbor to tell what was happening. She appeals to testosterone poisoning, teenage angst, lack of familial love, baby getting sunburnt, mother's and siblings' fragility, father's corrupt nature, conspiract plot, law breaking, 'you are just a child', 'I love you - don't you love me', etc. She intimidates ('I am your mother, you will do as I say, the police will force you', violently tries to get him out of the car, violently tries to imprison him inside house, admits to having hit him in the past and says she intends to "do it again") and then goes on to make false allegation against her own son accusing him of assault, tearfully showing little bruises on her arm to the cop and talking about pressing charges. There was actually no assault - she got the bruises from trying to restrain Parker's hands and forcefully open the door; she initiated the violence by which she pretended to get hurt. She also appeals to the body language (as if struggling to hold an infant child, using threatening posture to loom over him, leaning on the window with a smile and crossed arms like a girlfreind, shifting left and right in a demonstration of agitation, throwing arms up in the air like an albatros to make cops try defend her, exaggerated/fake crying, a variety of emotionally manipulative voice tones, etc). Also, though Parker describes the situations of abuse in front of the cops, they - like working on an instruction script - are still trying to pressure him into going back into the house. Here's a video reponse to the Caleb's video by another man who also suffered at the hands of his abusive mom in his childhood.
  • Latasha Renee Love (37) called authorities and reported that her Pop-Tarts (valued $5) were stolen by her juvenile son. Officers arrested the son and charged him with misdemeanor larceny.
  • Malaysian mother beats up her helpless baby (8-month-old).
  • Lessielee Ann King (20) charged with felony injury to a child. She is accused of abusing the her son (1), including biting and chewing his face. She said she did this because she was jealous that his dad loved him more than her. The baby's father told investigators that he grew concerned after finding various unexplained bruises on his little boy's body, which only surfaced when King was alone with him. Investigators were also given photographs taken when the child was younger that showed significant bruising on his left eye and right thigh. A friend of the toddler's father said he did not think King had a motherly bond with the child because she showed no affection toward him, and that he witnessed King slapping the baby "too hard" on the face, legs, and arms. When investigators asked King about the bite mark on the baby's cheek, she allegedly said she never meant to leave any marks on her son, and that the toddler's face was just a little red after she "sucked" and "chewed" on his face.
  • Caira Ferguson (21), whose toddler was photographed while bound to a chair with duct tape covering her mouth, charged with endangerment. The photograph, which the police believes was taken by Ferguson's friend, also features Ferguson herself. Ferguson briefly defended herself while police escorted her outside of the station, saying, "I did not duct tape my daughter". During questioning, she admitted to taping her daughter to the chair. 2 other children under age 8 witnessed the incident.
  • Tiffany Michelle Davis (37) didn't have a babysitter. So she chained her mentally disabled daughter (19, she has mental capabilities of a young child) to the hotel bed so she could visit and party up at a wedding out of state. Guests at the hotel saw the teen wandering the building after she somehow unchained herself from the mattress. People did not recognize her so they asked her questions but she was unable to speak. So they brought her to hotel management. The mom was charged with a felony neglect charge and is being held at Gaston County Jail in lieu of $100000 bail.
  • Nunavut single mom (38) sentenced to five days in jail and probation of two years after counseling daughter (17) to kill herself "on numerous occasions over a period of two months". The daughter, as a result, "attempted suicide numerous times. Two of those attempts were immediately after her mother counseled her to do so."
  • Carlishia Jevian Johnson (30), her husband, and their 4 children were traveling in the family vehicle. She got in an argument with her husband and, all of a sudden, reached over and jerked the steering wheel to the right. The husband lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a palm tree, ejecting 3 of the children. All 4 children were transported to Memorial Hermann Hospital for treatment. Johnson told investigators that she only "touched" the wheel to try and prevent it from striking another vehicle, but a highway surveillance camera showed there were no other vehicles near the family's car at the time of the crash. Charges were then filed against the mom. Her bail was set at $10000.
  • A Cronulla woman (42) has been charged with assaulting her ex-partner (39) and her baby girl (8-month-old). She got involved in an argument with the father of the baby, whereby she assaulted him and the child. A man who witnessed the incident rescued the child and took her to the hospital, where she is recovering with a bruised eye.
  • Angela Janecka (39) accused to attempting to kill her newborn daughter by wrapping her in a plastic bag and pillowcase and leaving her in the dryer to die. She had previously told her husband that the fetus she was carrying had died but that doctors had advised her to carry it to term. After giving birth, she called her husband who was at work and told him that she had given birth, that the baby had been stillborn, and that the medical staff that had helped her with the delivery had already taken the baby's body away. However, when her husband came home and began cleaning he heard a scratching sound coming from the dryer. Inside he found his 8 pound baby daughter - still alive.
  • Kaitlin Norton (21) hid her pregnancy from the family and her boyfriend (who was away at college). She gave birth in secret in her boyfriend's basement, and left her newborn baby boy under a pine tree. She then went to hospital, where she handed herself in to the authorities. The baby was found wrapped in a blanket by Betty Crowder. The baby was taken to hospital. He was cold but not seriously injured. Missouri has passed the Safe Place for Newborns Act in 2002, under which a woman can hand over a baby under a year old to any medical professional or to a firefighter. Every state in the US offers a similar service to mothers as a way to protect vulnerable children. Norton will be sentenced in July. The status of the child is not available.
  • Keala Simeona (21) falsely reported to the police about finding an abandoned newborn crying in the sand on a Hawaii beach. She said she walked toward the ocean and found the naked newborn and took her to a hospital. Actually she herself was the mother of the baby.
  • Cynthia Wachenheim (45), a Manhattan lawyer, jumped from an 8-floor apartment window cradling her 10-month-old son Keston in her arms. She died but the child survived.
  • New Zealand mom left her newborn baby in the car along with a note saying the mother had gone grocery shopping. A police spokeswoman said they are not investigating the case because they didn't receive any formal complaints.
  • There also are moms selling their babies. For example, this woman (23) put her baby on on eBay, "Baby - collection only. Offer my nearly new baby for sale because it cries too much. Male, 70 cm long." The opening bid was 1 euro ($1.57). After being caught, the woman said it was only a joke.
    Similarly, Oklahoma mother Misty VanHorn (22) attempted to sell her kids (10-month-old, 2) online on Facebook to a female acquaintance for $4000. She also agreed to accept $1000 for the bigger (sorry, elder) one alone. Her Facebook message read, "Just come to Sallisaw, it's only 30 minutes away and I'll give you all of her stuff and let y'all have her forever for $1000."
  • A judge hearing a dispute over access to a girl (5) has said the girl should no longer sleep in the same room as her mother (Japanese migrant who cannot be named for legal reasons - well, the real reason being she is a woman who did wrong) or half-sister, so that she is better prepared to stay overnight with her father with whom she has never lived. (Notice how the news story makes it sound like the decision was completely wrong, and how it is sympathetic toward the mother.) The mother, Ms K, says the father has failed to abide by earlier visiting arrangements, while he disputes this and claims she has breached the arrangement and is failing to encourage their daughter to visit him. The child has recently refused to visit the father even during the day (even though she has never lived with him - she was born after her parents' separation - so it's a clear case of parental alienation).
  • Some assorted stories.

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