Starved Wisconsin Teen(01 of43)
Open Image ModalMike Vega points to the area of sidewalk in Madison, Wis., Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012, where he discovered a starving 15-year-old after she escaped from her abusive father and stepmother last week. The severely malnourished teenager had been forced to stay in an unfinished basement for years and an alarm would sound if she went upstairs, police records say. The teen told authorities she ate what she could find in the garbage and on the floor of her father and stepmother's Madison home. Sometimes she was made to eat her feces and drink her own urine, according to a police affidavit. (AP Photo/Todd Richmond) (credit:AP)
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Open Image ModalThis photo released by the Montgomery County Police Dept shows Zakieya Latrice Avery, 28. Montgomery County Police charged 21-year-old Monifa Denise Sanford and Avery with murder in the deaths of two of Avery's children, a 1-year-old and a 2-year-old. The women are also facing attempted murder charges for injuring the children's siblings, ages 5 and 8. (AP Photo/Montgomery County Police Dept.) (credit:AP)
Erin Carnes(03 of43)
Open Image ModalCarnes reportedly left her 1-year-old son standing next to a mailbox outside the home where she though the boy's father lived in Palmetto, Fla. Police say Carnes not only left her baby and his belongings at the wrong house, but that the 27-year-old mom hadn't told the father she was giving him their child. She was jailed and charged with child abandonment in Manatee County, near Tampa Bay. (credit:Manatee County Sheriff)
Carmen Ramirez(04 of43)
Open Image ModalIn this undated photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department, Carmen Ramirez is seen. Police say the parents of a disabled 3-year-old Philadelphia girl who died weighing just 11 pounds have been charged with murder in what authorities are calling her starvation death. Police say the parents, 30-year-old Carlos Rivera and 27-year-old Ramirez, also face counts of involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of a child and criminal conspiracy in the death of Nathalyz Rivera. She was found unresponsive Monday, Sept. 9, 2013, at the family's squalid home. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department) (credit:AP)
Tanicia Goodwin(05 of43)
Open Image ModalFILE - In this March 19, 2012, file photo, Tanicia Goodwin is arraigned in Salem District Court in Salem, Mass. A court hearing is scheduled Thursday, May 3, 2012, for Goodwin, who is accused in the attempted murders of her 3-year-old daughter, Erica, and her 8-year-old son, Jamaal. Both children survived the alleged attacks in March. (AP Photo/The Boston Globe, Aram Boghosian, Pool) (credit:AP)
Angelo Fabiani Arroyo(06 of43)
Open Image ModalAngelo Fabiani Arroyo, 40, is accused of leaving his 4-year-old child at a car crash site and fleeing the scene. (credit:California Highway Patrol)
Carron Washington(07 of43)
Open Image ModalMichelle Windgassen; John Lewis (08 of43)
Open Image ModalMichelle Windgassen, 27, and John Lewis, 32, were arrested on charges of endangering a minor while they were under the influence of drugs at a Louisville restaurant. Officers found Windgassen in the bathroom snorting heroin, and Lewis admitted snorting heroin a couple hours earlier. (credit:Geobeats)
Tyshekka Collier(09 of43)
Open Image ModalCollier is accused of walking into her son's middle school in March, 2013 and hitting a sick child she mistook for her son. She then allegedly apologized to the child and then started slapping her own son, according to a Spartanburg County, South Carolina sheriff's office arrest report. (credit:Spartanburg County sheriff's Office)
Delaina Garling(10 of43)
Open Image ModalRobert Forbes, Christina Forbes(11 of43)
Open Image ModalRobert Forbes and Christina Forbes have been arrested by sheriffs in Citrus County, Fla. after their 9-year-old son was found with a cockroach in his ear. (credit:Citrus County Sheriff Department)
Kimberly Margeson French Kissed Son, Wlliam Partridge, To Give Him Drugs In Jail(12 of43)
Open Image ModalOfficials in Penn Yan, NY, say Kimberly Margeson, 54, passed two Oxycodone painkiller pills to her 30-year-old, William Partridge by french kissing him during a jailhouse visit. (credit:Yates County Jail)
Austin Davis(13 of43)
Open Image ModalAustin Davis is accused of beating his three children with a belt because one of his kids had passed gas in the car. (credit:Deland Sheriffs Dept.)
Karl Karlsen(14 of43)
Open Image ModalFor almost four years, police in upstate New York believed that Karl Karlsen's son Levi was accidentally crushed beneath a truck that he was working on in 2008. But after learning that Karlsen, 52, was the sole beneficiary of a life insurance policy on his 23-year-old son, they came to the conclusion that the father deliberately dropped the pickup on top of him. He was arrested on Nov. 23, 2012 and charged with second-degree murder (credit:AP)
Koko Nicole Anderson(15 of43)
Open Image ModalKoko Nicole Anderson, 21, from Mesa, Ariz., is shown after being jailed on aggravated DUI and criminal damage charges in this handout photo provided by the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office on Friday, Nov. 16, 2012. Anderson was charged after crashing her car with her infant son inside through a gate at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport Thursday night, driving on the runway in the latest in a series of similar mishaps across the country that have raised questions whether the nation's airports are truly secure. (AP Photo/Maricopa County Sheriff (credit:AP)
Cesar Ruiz(16 of43)
Open Image ModalWilliam Lewallen(17 of43)
Open Image ModalWilliam Lewallen was arrested after Tulsa police found his 18-month-old daughter locked in a metal dog cage, his naked 4-year old daughter outside on a cold afternoon and him asleep in a drug or alcohol induced stupor. (credit:Tulsa County Jail)
Billie Warburton(18 of43)
Open Image ModalAuthorities in Virginia arrested 30-year-old Billie Jolene Warburton, of Norfolk, on Oct. 15, 2012, in the parking lot of a courthouse. Police allegedly found Warburton slumped over the steering wheel of her vehicle. Warburton's window was open, the motor was running and a young child was sobbing in a car seat in the back, police said.The officer allegedly observed blood on the center console and fresh injection marks on Warburton's arms. Warburton allegedly told police her child was crying because he had not been fed since the previous evening.The baby was placed in the custody of Child Protective Services and Warburton was transported to Western Tidewater Regional Jail under a no bond status for possession of heroin, driving under the influence of drugs, and felony child neglect. (credit:Suffolk Police Department)
Arthur Langley(19 of43)
Open Image ModalBetsian Carrasquillo Peñalosa(20 of43)
Open Image ModalJessica Schauer(21 of43)
Open Image ModalThis 26-year-old was charged with threatening to discharge a destructive device after allegedly saying she was going to blow up her daughter's elementary school. Witnesses say that Schauer warned, "Don't bring your kid to school that day," and when asked what day she meant, she said, "The day I blow it up." (credit:Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office)
Stacia Rogers And Jerry Montalvo(22 of43)
Open Image ModalCops found a 2-year-old girl under this couple's care sleeping outside a Florida mall at 2:45 a.m. on Oct. 1, 2012. The two were arrested and charged with child neglect when it was found that Montalvo was allegedly on drugs, and Rogers let him leave with her daughter knowing that he was intoxicated. (credit:Facebook)
Danielle Barron(23 of43)
Open Image ModalBarron allegedly prostituted herself while her infant child was at home. She told police that her addiction to money led to a life of crime. (credit:Sarasota County Sheriff)
Sabrina Howard(24 of43)
Open Image ModalHoward's addiction to morphine drove her son to commit suicide, because he lived in fear that she would overdose, according to police in Indiana. (credit:Delaware County Sheriff)
James D. Blanchard(25 of43)
Open Image ModalJames D. Blanchard, 21, has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for abusing his newborn son. A medical doctor said that the child has lost his vision and will likely never walk or talk. The doctor also said the injury was common with shaken babies. (credit:KHQ.com)
Parents Accused Of Putting Daughter In Chicken Coop(26 of43)
Open Image ModalCops say that not only did Diana and Samuel Franklin keep their 15-year-old daughter in a chicken coop, they made her wear a shock collar and used it several times. (credit:Taylor County Sheriff)
Father Allegedly Kicked Son(27 of43)
Open Image ModalDario Napolitano is accused of kicking his 3-year-old son at Disney World in late June, 2012. (credit:Orange County Sheriff's Office)
Parents Blindfolded, Bound Their Kids Outside Kansas Walmart(28 of43)
Open Image ModalAdolfo Gomez Jr., 52, and his wife, Deborah Gomez, 43, both of Northlake, Ill., were arrested at a Walmart in Lawrence, Kan., after someone spotted a 5-year-old boy sitting outside a sport utility vehicle with his hands and feet bound and a blindfold covering his eyes. -AP (credit:Associated Press)
Mother Tried To Sell Baby In Newspaper(29 of43)
Open Image ModalBrittany Hill allegedly tried to sell her 4-month-old boy in a classified ad in June, 2012. Someone was going to try and buy the baby, but decided to call Dallas police instead. (credit:Dallas County Sheriff)
Brandi Baumgardner(30 of43)
Open Image ModalBaumgardner is accused of injecting her daughter with heroin roughly 200 times when the girl was 14-years-old. (credit:Facebook)
Thar Kyi(31 of43)
Open Image Modal'Tanorexic' Mom Charged With Burning Daughter(32 of43)
Open Image ModalNews Informed Parents That Daughter Was Missing(33 of43)
Open Image ModalWoman Allegedly Sexted, Had Sex With Son(34 of43)
Open Image ModalMan Allegedly Left Toddler Home With Cereal, Went To Office(35 of43)
Open Image ModalMother Charged With Neglect For Dancing In Driveway While Son Slept Naked In Trash(36 of43)
Open Image ModalMarsia Emanuel(37 of43)
Open Image ModalMisty Lawson(38 of43)
Open Image ModalChristina Lopez(39 of43)
Open Image ModalBarry O'Connell(40 of43)
Open Image ModalBarry O'Connell, a Spokane, Wash., police officer, was suspended for three weeks after his daughter used his service weapon to accidentally shoot herself in the leg. (credit:Spokane Police Department)
Elizabeth Escalona(41 of43)
Open Image ModalThis undated handout photo from the Dallas County Sheriff's Department shows Elizabeth Escalona. The mother was facing child abuse charges, Friday, Sept. 9, 2011, after police said she glued her toddler daughter's hands to a wall, kicked her in the stomach and beat her over a potty training issue. (credit:(AP Photo/Dallas County Sheriff's Department))
Rebecca Rachelle Hill(42 of43)
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