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Alaska Mom Charged With Child Abuse After Feeding Child Hot Sauce

An Alaska woman who put hot sauce in her adopted son’s mouth to get on the “Dr. Phil” show was found guilty of misdemeanor child abuse Tuesday. Mother Jessica Beagley, 36, videoed herself pouring hot sauce down the throat of her 7-year-old adopted Russian son, Kristoff, for misbehaving in school.

Lawsuit Says Military Tolerates Rape, Assault

A federal lawsuit recently filed charges the Defense Department with responsibility for rape and sexual assault in the ranks by failing to investigate the sex crimes, failing to prosecute the perpetrators and maintaining a weak judicial system.  The lawsuit claims that current Defense Secretary Robert Gates and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld are responsible for [...]

Human Trafficker is Deported to US

A man named Veniamin Gonikman, who is 55 years old, has been captured and detained on charges that include human trafficking, forced labor, alien smuggling, money laundering, extortion and conspiracy was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport.  US immigration Officials hold that his company helped to traffick Eastern European women in the U.S.  Gonikman [...]

Stepmother Charged with Bigamy

The stepmother of a disabled girl whose remains were found after she went missing in North Carolina has been indicted on a bigamy charge. Authorities have found that Elisa Baker, the stepmother of Zahra Baker, 10 years old, is accused of marrying the girl’s father before divorcing her previous husband.  Zahra lost part of her [...]

Husband Faces Criminal Charges For Reading Wife’s Email

A Michigan man is facing criminal charges for checking his wife’s email without her consent.  Thirty-three-year-old Leon Walker found out about his wife’s affair after he used his wife’s password to get into her Gmail account and read her email on their home computer.  Clara had kept a book containing her internet passwords next to [...]

Demi Lovato Reaches Financial Settlement in Personal Injury Lawsuit

The Disney star, Demi Lovato,18-years-old, has reached a financial settlement with Alex Welch, a back-up dancer whom Lovato punched after believing Welch, 21-years-old, had ratted her out for partying.  Welch’s lawyer said earlier this month that Welch might sue the star for “punitive damages for assault, battery and for mental stress.”  He noted that Welch, [...]

Long Island ‘Hit-Mom’ Trial

Susan Williams is a Garden City mother who has been accused of plotting to kill her husband, showed no emotion as closing summations were given in her trial.  Williams did not take the stand.  The case now rests in the hands of the jury.   Prosecutor Anne Donnelly said that the defendant wife wanted her husband [...]

Ex-Alabama Trooper Finally Sentenced for Killing Which Led to 1965 “Bloody Sunday”

Former state trooper, James Bonard Fowler, a 77 year old white man, has pleaded guilty to a charge in the 1965 shooting death of a black man at a civil rights protest.  The defendant entered a misdemeanor plea of second-degree manslaughter just two weeks before he was scheduled to go to trial on a murder [...]

Cheerleader Sues School, Coach Over Illicit Facebook Log-in

A lawsuit has been filed by parents of former high school student, Mandi Jackson, alleging Tommie Hill, a teacher acting in her capacity as a cheerleading coach, demanded that members of her squad hand over their Facebook login information.  The teacher used it to access a student’s account, which included a heated discussion of some [...]

Parent Charged Criminally for Teaching 2-Year-Old to Smoke Marijuana

An Ohio mother, Jessica Gamble, has been charged with child endangerment, evidence tampering and “corrupting another with drugs,” according to a grand jury indictment, after prosecutors found that she e-mailed to friends a video of the child puffing on a joint.  The 21 year old mother could face up to 11 years in prison if [...]