Mother arrested for serving beer to two-year-old

Earlier this month, a mother poured beer from a pitcher into her toddler's sippy cup at a pizzeria in  Arizona. A witness called 911 after seeing the child fall out of his high chair. That witness also knew what was in the sippy cup, and believed that the child might have been intoxicated.


Valerie Topete admitted to giving her two-year-old son some beer. The child was taken to a hospital and is okay. Topete was arrested and faces a child abuse charge which is a felony.

(info from MyFoxPhoenix)

Mother who thought she was dying hammered son to death so no one else could raise him

Suspected prostitute Tenika Revell beat her seven-year-old son to death because she thinks she is dying from cancer — and didn’t want anyone else to raise her boy, according to her longtime boyfriend.


“She loved him so much she didn’t want nobody else to have him,” Terrace Johnson said of his longtime girlfriend , who killed her son Bernard — bashing his head with a hammer —  on July 8 in their Brooklyn  apartment. She took pills to try and kill herself, but survived. “She didn’t want her mother or none of them to get Bernard.”


Johnson met Revell when Bernard was an infant. “I raised him,” he said. “She took my boy away from me.”


About a year after they got together, Revell’s angry side began to emerge, he said. She had done two stints in prison for robbery and burglary before meeting him.


Revell, 40, took medication for anger management, Johnson said. But her mental health declined rapidly after getting pregnant with his child last year, then having to abort the pregnancy because of her spreading cancer.


“That’s when she started really going downhill,” Johnson said. He speculates Revell may have resumed her crack habit, but insists she was a good mother to Bernard, her only child. He would scold her for buying the boy video games and scooters when she couldn’t pay the bills. “She’d spoil him rotten,” Johnson said. “She went all out.”


Revell called 911 and calmly confessed, cops said. Johnson didn’t know the boy was dead until the next morning, when he came to visit and saw the news cameras and police tape.



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Suicidal mother killed two little kids because she was pissed off at their father

Lisette Bamenga was a soccer-loving mom and terrific teacher, a cop’s girlfriend and a quiet neighbor — until she killed her two helpless kids.

Bamenga forced her five-year-old son and four-month-old daughter to drink toxic windshield wiper fluid. She used plastic and tape to seal up their apartment windows, and turned on the gas from her stove, police sources said.

Then she slashed her wrists and sat alone in their apartment.

According to a source, Bamenga — in a message left near the two tiny bodies in the kitchen — wrote that the children “were going to a better place” after their deaths. The note indicated that the woman planned to kill herself.

Bamenga survived and was charged with two counts of first degree murder. The murders were allegedly retaliation against the children's father for having an affair.

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Mother makes little kids fight in video

A video posted to Facebook shows a fist fight between two small children, with the mother of one of the kids egging them on, even offering instructions to the tiny combatants.


“Got some action! Got some action!” the woman can be heard yelling as she shoots the video. “Y’all better ball up some fists!”


The video was posted to Facebook on Sunday. An acquaintance of the mother in question alerted KTVI-TV. She asked not be identified, but spoke in an interview Tuesday. "It’s just sickening and I feel like there should be some kind of criminal action taken,” she said. “I couldn’t even watch the whole video. I had to stop it and look again. It was sad.”


She says the urging of the mother was as disturbing as the pictures themselves.


“Ball up your fist. It’s like she’s training her before she starts school or something. It’s sad because today’s society in the black community, its really sickening that these kids are learning how to fight, get guns and stuff, and it shouldn’t be going on.”

(info from WTVR, photo from Kohl's)

Woman gets two life terms for pimping infant daughter

Tessa L. Vanvlerah was sentenced at the end of April to two consecutive life terms in prison for prostituting her then-five-month-old daughter to Kenneth L. Kyle. Kyle would travel to Ballwin, Missouri from San Francisco to sexually abuse the daughter and produce child pornography, crimes to which he's already pleaded guilty and received a 37-year sentence.

Pathetic Tessa allowed Kyle to choke her, burn her and urinate on her during their visits.

Attorneys argued for probation, based on a claim that Vanverlah had a psychological condition called dependent-personality disorder. The daughter was placed into protective custody in 2010, and has since been adopted.

 

(from Riverfront Times)