Neighbor Reports Child Abuse 44-year-old Joshua Robert Demott of Flint has been charged with first degree child abuse, torture, and also first degree child abuse in the presence of another child. These are very serious charges and could result in a lifetime spent in prison. But in the wake of a neighbor’s tips to police,…
Category: Child Abuse 1st Degree
Siblings Knew about Dead Children At her arraignment, Mitchelle Blair showed little emotion, and with the exception of repeatedly scratching her face, had little to contribute to the proceedings. Accused of torturing and then murdering two of her children, then storing their bodies in a freezer, Blair is looking at the possibility of a lifetime…
The death of a baby is a tragedy. But when the infant is found to have sustained head wounds before passing away, it is only natural for authorities to wonder if there is perhaps more to the story. In this case, it has resulted in a teenaged father being charged with abuse and murder. …
The preliminary hearing for Steven A. Torres and his wife, Erica Jackson-Torres, the Saginaw couple facing charges of 1st degree child abuse, took place just last month in the Saginaw County District Court. But this case took like it may take a while to untangle, as there is a good deal of “he said, she…
Child Abuse Conviction Results in Prison Time Defendant Charlisa Wood, 22, was sentenced last month for the torture, abuse, and assault of her boyfriend’s young son. A jury found her guilty in December, 2014.
Michigan First Degree Child Abuse Charges Steven A. Torres and Erica Jackson-Torres, a married couple from Saginaw, are facing very serious child abuse charges in the wake of a recent incident in which a toddler under their supervision was badly hurt. Both have been charged with first degree child abuse, which is a felony under…
Jonathan Colby, a 22-year-old resident of Allegan County, has been charged with first-degree child abuse for allegedly causing his infant son’s death. But as it turns out, the tragic circumstances in this case go far beyond a single instance of abuse. At about 1:30 in the morning of December 3rd, Sheriff’s deputies responded to…
25-year-old Garrett D. Gwizdala, a father from Bay City who was facing multiple felonies for the abuse of his infant daughter, has pled no contest to charges of first-degree child abuse and assault by strangulation.
Jeremy Lee Perry, is the 21-year-old father of an infant girl who is recovering from injuries that police say are the result of an alleged beating. He was recently arraigned on charges of first degree child abuse.
Friends and family gathered at a recent child abuse sentencing hearing to share a mixed collection of testimonies– some good, others rather dismal– of what they thought about Kelli Rai Stapleton’s mothering abilities. Stapleton, the northern Michigan autism advocate and mother of 14-year-old Isabelle who suffers from autism, pled guilty to first-degree child abuse…