Child Abuse or Mental Illness? Mom Pushed Son in Swing Non-Stop for Two Days Romechia Simms has been charged with child abuse and murder. Very serious charges indeed. But unlike so many child abuse investigations where the debate is whether or not the abuse was intentional or accidental, the facts here are very confusing.
Month: September 2015
Jamarion Lawhorn, the 12-year-old Kent County boy convicted for murder and sentenced to decades behind bars, claimed that his plan had been to commit suicide and take someone with him. Why? Because he was so badly abused at home, that he no longer wanted to live. And now, Anita Lawhorn, his much-maligned mother, will get…
Vulnerable Adult Abuse and Unlawful Imprisonment It has hardly been a handful of months since the story about Candy Larson, the woman accused of keeping her disabled sister locked in a closet for seven years, hit the news. People were horrified and the media devoured the story with the intensity of vultures, calling the situation…
The Truth About Munchausen by Proxy Gillian Flynn, the author of the hugely popular ‘Gone Girl’ and ‘Dark Places’, has also penned the critically acclaimed book ‘Sharp Objects’. It’s a fantastic story about a woman who is forced to confront her own mother’s mental illness, and the munchausen by proxy that damaged her childhood and…
When an expectant mother arrives at a hospital, ready to deliver her baby into the waiting arms of medical staff, one of the many processes she is required to undergo is blood work. For many mothers, this isn’t even something they’re aware of. Samples are drawn and whisked away for analysis without a word. And…
Incriminating Statement Made at Police Polygraph Rod O’Farrell, the defense attorney for Steven A. Torres, recently filed a motion in the Saginaw County Circuit Court. They had hopes of having an incriminating statement Torres made to police suppressed during the upcoming trial. But Judge Darnell Jackson, having heard all of the testimony about this particular case,…
Mio Man Accused of First Degree Child Abuse and Murder Richard Watson, originally from Mio in Oscoda Township, is accused of abusing and murdering the infant daughter of his Midland girlfriend. He has been charged with first degree child abuse, homicide and open murder, following the baby’s death and a very brief investigation into the…
According to the Bay County Sheriff’s Department, Brian K. Dubay Jr. is facing domestic violence and child abuse charges for slapping his girlfriend’s daughter. The complaint was called in by the girl’s father, who had picked up his daughters from his ex-wife’s home that evening.
Kimberly Pappas, a 24-year-old Wyandotte woman, has entered a plea of not guilty to charges of child abuse and murder. She is accused of having given birth, unassisted, at her job, and then hidden the newborn in a plastic bag near her desk, where he died of asphyxiation.