A few days ago, just after 4 pm, a mother was arrested by police while waiting to pick up her son after school. The reason, officers say, is because she was under the influence of illegal drugs while behind the wheel, and that after her son got off the bus, she would likely have…
Category: Child Abuse
In September of 2015, then-20-year-old Marc Steven Hartnett was arraigned on several very serious child abuse charges in Osceola County’s 77th District Court. He was accused of abusing and torturing his girlfriend’s 19-month-old child. Now, almost a year later, he has accepted a plea bargain and pled guilty to a child abuse charge. According…
Andria Downes and Alexandria Dockery, two young mothers from East Lansing who are both 25-years-old, are facing child abuse charges for leaving their children alone to go shopping. The pair have both been charged with misdemeanors. According to the East Lansing Police Department, the incident began with a trip to Meijer. The two…
24-year-old Jonathan Karney has handled some ups and downs of late when it comes to some child abuse charges he was facing. His charges have gone from two felonies to one, but then his no jail agreement got turned on it’s head. All in all, it’s been a rough ride for everyone involved. …
Police records show that 32-year-old Jennifer Wigren has been accused of sexually assaulting her 4-year-old son. Wigren is a mother of two from Shelby Township in Oceana County. The incident came to light when Wigren’s husband discovered pictures of his wife and 4-year-old son on her phone. The pictures were apparently sexual in nature. Wigren…
A babysitter from Ionia County, which lies halfway between Grand Rapids and Lansing, has been accused of throwing an infant that she was tasked with caring for, causing the baby severe injuries in the process. According to police records, officers from the Ionia Police Department were called to a home on Jackson street…
When Timothy Ferris decided to take the trash out a few hours early at work, the last thing he expected to find in the dumpster was a 7-month-old baby. He discovered an infant he described as “red faced and crying”, lying inside a closed dumpster near the corner of Park st. and Laketon Ave….
In 2003, Marcus Claudius Oglesby of Runnemede, New Jersey, was convicted of second degree child abuse here in Michigan, and sentenced to prison. After three years he was released, but now, thirteen years after that initial conviction, Oglesby is facing charges again. This time it’s because his daughter, who was only 8-months-old when he was…
Donny Hancock, a 20-year-old father from Backus Township in Roscommon County, is accused of having violently abused his infant son, causing his eventual death. At the preliminary examination, the baby’s mother provided testimony for the court, detailing the fact that she had no idea that Hancock was abusing their son and that she had nothing…
Daveeta Walker, a 25-year-old mother from Kalamazoo, is accused of abusing and torturing her 4-year-old daughter, Kharisma, to death. Judge Vincent Westra determined that there was sufficient evidence for the case to be heard in front of a jury, and so he bound her over for trial in the Kalamazoo County Circuit Court. However, a…