Charlisa Wood was accused of severely injuring her then-boyfriend’s 4-year-old son by burning and beating him, causing him life-threatening injuries.In December of 2015, the court found her guilty of child abuse, torture, and assault with intent to do great bodily harm, and she was sentenced to spend decades behind bars. But a few months ago…
Category: Child Abuse
Michael David Kragor, a 23-year-old resident of Manistee, is accused of sexually assaulting a 3-year-old girl. He is also accused of taking naked pictures of the little girl, using her mother’s cell phone. Michigan State Police Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force, the girl’s mother, who is Kragor’s girlfriend, found naked pictures of her daughter…
Dr. Vijay Kumar, a 49-year-old GOP candidate for state representative in Michigan, has been accused of both health care fraud and the molestation of a teenaged girl. The Republican candidate is a physical therapist who owns and operates five physical therapy businesses in Ogemaw County. According to press releases made available to the public,…
25-year-old Daveeta Walker has been accused of abuse, torture and murder in the death of her 4-year-old daughter. The child’s death is said to have taken place on her 4th birthday. According to police reports, on March 26th at about 9:30 am, officers responded to a 911 call at an apartment in Kalamazoo. There they…
In November of 2015, Jennifer Garza who is the mother of a teenaged boy with autism, filed a federal lawsuit against the Lansing School district, along with a teacher she believed abused her son. According to the initial complaint, Garza’s son, who was 13 at the time of the incident, was the subject of repeated…
Luis Alberto Fuentes, a 25-year-old man with ties to both Florida and Nevada, has accepted a plea bargain from the Prosecutor’s Office, in which he pled no contest to counts of second degree attempted child abuse. According to Michigan State Police officers from the Cadillac Post, the child was in Fuentes’ care at a…
The Tsimhoni custody battle that has been raging in the Oakland County Family Court since 2015, has resulted in more than just media scrutiny of the Tsimhoni family. The Judge overseeing the case, Lisa Gorcyca has drawn her fair share of acrimony and accusation in the matter as well. At the end of last year,…
14 years ago Lorinda Swain went to prison, and she’s been there ever since. Just a few days ago, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled that she was entitled to a new trial, but the prosecutor decided that they are not going to charge her a second time. Convicted over a decade ago for child abuse,…
The statistics for child abuse are heartbreaking these days. You have only to google “child abuse” to see how many little ones will succumb to harm during their lifetime. But on the flip side of that coin, there are a horrifying number of parents and caregivers who are falsely accused of child abuse these days….
Police were called to a hospital in Flint recently, where a 4-year-old boy named Jordyn Mathena, was unresponsive, with burns all over his body. His mom had apparently found him in the shower, unconscious, and taken him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. But what shocked officers was not the fact that the…