Ohio woman guilty in foster son's death
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A jury on Wednesday convicted a woman of murder for causing the death of a 3-year-old foster son by leaving him bound in a cocoon of blankets and tape while she went away to a weekend family reunion.
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The mother of a 27-year-old woman who died after taking cocaine dies 12 days after her daughter's inquest.
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A woman whose 3-year-old son was found wandering on a busy highway pleaded guilty Monday to child neglect charges.
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A suburban midwife who faced rare criminal charges after a newborn died during a Lake County home birth has pleaded guilty to a reduced charge to avoid a second trial.
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A jury took just 80 minutes to find a serial killings suspect guilty of first-degree murder Tuesday in the death of a 22-year-old Baton Rouge woman.
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A woman who spent about two years in prison for the stabbing death of her 10-year-old son was acquitted at her retrial Wednesday, after the defense insisted the murder was carried out by a masked intruder, possibly a Texas death-row inmate who has confessed.
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LONDON -- On Nov. 9, Margaret Smith, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2002 for smothering her 4-month-old son, was acquitted at a retrial. She was one of several British mothers who lost one or more children in infancy and were convicted of murder.
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Two people are found guilty of murdering a 45-year-old woman whose battered body was dumped in a lay-by.
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A stripper-turned-soccer mom accused of borrowing from a movie plot to kill her fiance for money was convicted Monday of first-degree murder.
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A 13-year old girl is found guilty of involvement in the killing of her parents and younger brother.
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NEW YORK -- A New York woman allegedly killed her one-year-old son and dumped his body in the trash in 2000, then collected welfare benefits for him for years, authorities charged yesterday. Diatra Hester-Bey, 33, was ordered held without bail on a ...
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A jury ruled Wednesday that the state's child welfare agency was at fault in the beating death of a 3-year-old girl who was allowed to remain in an abusive home.
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A grandmother found guilty of plotting with her son to have his wife murdered to "defend the family honour" is jailed for life.
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A couple accused of poisoning a three-year-old boy they wanted to adopt are found guilty of manslaughter.
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Relative of two-year-old Casey Leigh Mullen pleads guilty.
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A man was found guilty of first-degree murder Thursday in the beating death of his 3-year-old daughter during an attack on her day care center.
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After their 21-year-old son was killed, Celina and Pule Seloma decided to become foster parents.