Tag: child abuse
A Deltona man arrested on charges of burning a 3-year-old girl in 2018, has been arrested again after he poured boiling water on a different child -- a 3-year-old boy.
Terry May, 47, was taken into custody Wednesday morning after...
Citrus County -- A Florida woman is behind bars after investigators say she tied a boy to a chair and attempted to suffocate him.
Merry Elizabeth Teller was arrested by the Citrus County Sheriff’s Office and members of the US...
Marquise J. Woolbright, 26, made a plea deal and received a sentence of three years probation after committing several violent crimes.
In 2017, Woodlright's girlfriend had driven to visit him and caught him red-handed cheating with another woman.
As his girlfriend...
Silver Springs – Two suspects who have been accused of attacking multiple people -- including an 11-year-old girl -- were arrested Thursday.
According to reports, Julia Napiontek and Brandon Clanton, both 18, attacked four people -- ages 11, 55, 47,...
Silver Springs Shores -- Five girls and a boy -- Â ages 2 to 13 -- were removed from a Silver Springs Shores home by the Department of Children and Families Tuesday after the children were found living in filth.
Law...
A Miami-Dade police officer, Raymond Rosario, 44, was suspended with pay after he was arrested for hitting his daughter on a school campus.
The incident was caught on school surveillance video.
Rosario arrived at Pinecrest Cove Preparatory Academy after a teacher...
31-year old Tameka Sims was arrested Wednesday and charged with Child Abuse after she attacked a 12-year-old girl at a bus stop.
On September 26, Ocala police were called to the 500 block of Southwest Martin Luther King Boulevard after...
Ocala -- A mother who was attempting to let a father visit with their daughter was attacked and beaten.
The mother told Ocala police that she had taken her two-year-old daughter to Long's Grocery, located at 803 Northwest 4th Street,...
Marion County Officials said they removed 56 dogs from a home, located at 931 Northeast 12th Avenue.
Ocala Police said that a three-year-old child had been living in the urine and feces-filled residence.
On October 5, OPD received a call in...
Ocala, Florida -- Ocala police say they arrested an Ocala man after a grandmother reported that her grandson had been physically abused by his father.
The grandmother reported the abuse to the Starke Police Department, who in turn reported it...
Ocala, Florida -- A man who was just released from jail on March 3, 2017, after being charged with Battery, was arrested for the 13th time in Marion County.
Ocala police said that on August 12, the girlfriend of David...
Ocala, Florida -- A 29-year-old woman was arrested Thursday and charged with multiple felonies.
Ocala police said Melissa Keil had been separated from her husband for approximately three months.
Police said that while the two were separated, Melissa began to suspect...
Ocala, Florida -- Ocala police say a witness called 911 after she witnessed a man beating on a teenage girl while stopped in the middle of traffic. The witness told dispatchers that she saw the man punch the girl in the face...
Ocala, Florida -- A 32-year-old man accused of beating his 4-month-old daughter was released from Jail Friday on a $10,000 bond.
Investigators with the Ocala Police Department were notified by the Department of Children and Families after UF Health Shands...
Ocala, Florida -- On March 13, 2017, the Marion County Sheriff's Office responded to a residence after a juvenile reported that she had been battered.
The juvenile told the responding deputy that she had not been home in two days...
A report released by officials Monday detailed the grizzly events that lead to a 14-year-old's suicide.
The teen, Naika Venant, streamed her suicide live on Facebook on January 22, 2017. She was in state custody and living in a foster...
A Umatilla women was arrested and charged with two counts of Child Neglect after she locked two small children in a car parked outside a bar while she was inside drinking.
Marion County sheriff's deputies responded to Kat's Krazy 8...
Marion County sheriff's deputies arrested a man they say battered a 16-year-old girl.
Deputies responded to the 5700 block of Southeast 164th Avenue, Ocklawaha, following reports of child abuse.
The juvenile told deputies that Jimmie Driskell, 43, grabbed her by the...
The Florida Highway Patrol responded to Southeast 112th Lane, just west of County Road 25A, after a caller reported a road rage incident.
Troopers say two victims were riding their bicycles northbound on County Road 25A in the northbound travel...
A man told a Marion County Sheriff's Deputy that he hit a juvenile several times with a belt because he had "reached his boiling point".
A MCSO deputy and a Department of Children and Families investigator responded to the 1900...
