Mom arrested for pouring gas on young daughter and igniting her

Porche Wright was arrested for felony child abuse and attempted murder. Neighbors say the young mother lit her seven-year-old daughter on fire.

The Sacramento Police Department was called to a home Saturday afternoon.

“She put gas on her and put a match on her,” said neighbor Mike Davis. “She was burned so bad, face and everything, it was really really severe,” said neighbor Frank Taylor.

Police say the child is expected to recover but was taken to the hospital with serious injuries.

“People are saying that she wasn’t really a good mom, that she was really always on her verbally abusing them,” (sic) Taylor said.

Wright has a criminal past dating back to 2007. She’s been charged with prostitution, domestic violence and disorderly conduct.

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Mother arrested for murdering infant son in restaurant

According to police and witnesses, “soulless” Latisha Fisher killed her 20-month-old son in the bathroom of a Manhattan burger restaurant last week — and prevented restaurant workers from rescuing the doomed boy.

Then she “blamed the devil,” a police source said.

A woman walked into the bathroom and saw the mother holding her hand on young Gavriel's mouth, but Fisher told her: “I put my hand over his mouth to put him to sleep.”

The mother locked herself in the bathroom and customers and employees became worried when the line to the toilets grew long. When workers forced their way inside, the child was unconscious and foaming at the mouth.

They said Fisher tried to stop the restaurant staff from performing CPR on the limp toddler.

“I would describe her as soulless,” a law enforcement official said when asked if the mom seemed distraught. “She put her hand over his mouth and smothered him.” Another sickened police source said: “She is a lunatic. She is crazy.”

Gavriel was rushed to Bellevue Hospital, where he died, cops said. The mother was taken into custody at the scene. 

The boy's maternal grandmother said, “He was such a happy baby.”

My mother used to say that about me.

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Drunk mother took 7-year-old son to orgy

A woman from Chartiers Township, PA was accused of driving drunk to an apartment where she planned to have sex with three other people.

Her 7-year-old son was in the car and taken to the orgy.

Police officers were called to an apartment at  about 1 a.m. and found Heather Young shouting in the hallway.

Police said Young, 34, was irate following an argument with another woman inside the apartment when Young began undressing in front of her juvenile son. A man in the apartment told police Young went there to have sex with three people.

Young was drunk and shouting, police said, so she was  handcuffed and escorted to a police car. Police said she spit at an officer and tried to kick him while she was placed in the back seat.

City police charged Young with multiple counts of aggravated assault, indecent exposure, child endangerment, disorderly conduct, public drunkenness, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest and driving under the influence. The boy was handed over to his father.

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Mother arrested for beheading three-month-old daughter

In Ohio, Deasia Watkins, 20, has been charged with aggravated murder in connection with the death of her three-month-old girl.

Cincinnati Police found the 3-month-old dead inside her home. The baby suffered "multiple traumas" according to Hamilton County coroner Dr. Lakshmi Sammarco. 

"It's days like this when you really wonder how much evil there is in the world and how we're fighting it,” Sammarco said. “We're trying to do right by this child. We're trying to bring justice for this baby."

Jimmie Graham lives next door to the Watkins household. He was shocked to hear about the baby's death, and watched the investigation unfold Monday.

"She must have been out of her mind," he said of Watkins. "I can't see how somebody could do something like that."

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Mother forced daughter to put dead sister in freezer

The saga of a Detroit mother accused of killing two of her children and stuffing their bodies in a freezer took yet another gut-wrenching twist last week.

Court records show that one of Mitchelle Blair's surviving children was forced to place the body of her 13-year-old sister into the freezer.

The bodies of Stephen Berry, 9, and Stoni Blair, 13, were discovered Tuesday after an eviction notice was served on Blair for failing to pay her rent.

Police said Blair has two living children, an 8-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, both of whom knew their siblings had been killed and that the bodies were hidden in the freezer. Both were also beaten by their mother and had scars from being burned and whipped with an extension cord.

The state is trying to terminate the parental rights of two fathers. Neither protected his children from "an unfit home environment where the children were physically abused, tortured and murder," a juvenile court petition said.

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Woman arrested for raping two-year-old son with dildo

A Phoenix woman was accused of shoving a vibrator into her two-year-old son's anus in 2013, and surgery was required to remove it.

According to court documents, 21-year-old Rickesha Burns called police, reporting that her son was bleeding from his anus. Burns said she didn't know what happened.

She said she was at a park with her son, and while she was "looking at a text message for about 10 seconds," a boy she didn't know at the park did "something" to her son.

The boy was brought to Phoenix Children's Hospital, and doctors discovered that he has numerous bruises around his anus, a "hanger type" bruise on his hip, and yet another bruise on his neck. Doctors also found an object lodged in his rectum, which appears to be "a vibrator or some other sex toy."

Police interviewed Burns, who still claimed that a teenage boy at a park did it, even though she "believes it is her vibrator," and police found the boy's blood on her shirt. Phoenix Police Officer James Holmes says there was zero evidence that the boy was assaulted at the park.

Court records show that Burns was investigated for child abuse in 2011, but it doesn't appear that criminal charges were ever filed.

The boy had surgery to get the vibrator removed. Police say the injuries around the boy's anus appear to be caused by a hanger, or similar object, being used in an attempt to get the vibrator out.

Mom pleaded not-guilty, but I have not been able to find an update.

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Children die in a scorching-car tragedy

Samantha Harper, 25, is facing two counts of especially aggravated child abuse in the deaths of her children, aged two and three, on August 2. Police found them lying beside a parked car near their home in Smyrna, Tennessee.  Police spokesman Sgt. Bobby Gibson said “It appears the children suffered heat stroke, that they may have been trapped inside the vehicle,” he said. “Their mother put them in the car. We have no idea how long they were left inside.”

Someone had pulled the children from the car before police arrived, but Gibson didn’t release any information about that person, citing the ongoing investigation.

The high temperature on Thursday was 99 degrees in Smyrna. “Even with the windows down, it could easily hit 120 degrees inside a car on a day like today,” Boyd said. “With the windows up, I’d hate to even think about it. It would be much higher … between 140 and 150 degrees.”

It doesn’t take long for a car to heat up, said Janette Fennell, founder and president of the Kansas-based KidsandCars.org, an organization aimed at keeping kids safe in and around motor vehicles.

“In 20 minutes, that car’s temperature could have spiked 20 degrees,” she said. “Children up to the age of 10 have immature respiratory systems. They heat up three to five times faster than an adult and they do not have the ability to dissipate the heat very quickly. Once their body temperature reaches 106 degrees, the internal organs begin shutting down,” she said. How fast death comes depends on a number of factors, including how much clothing the child is wearing, the color of the car and the last time the child had water, she said.

(info from The Tennessean)