A mother has been charged with cruelty towards a child and neglect after she put a plastic bag over her five-month-old’s head and sent the photo to her husband via text message for ‘a joke’. Courtney Shanvice McBride, 20, from Davie, Florida, was arrested on April 1 after her husband alerted a relative when he received the picture of the toddler in a plastic-lined rubbish container with a plastic bag over her head. The baby’s... 

A 30-year-old mother is accused of having sex with a 14-year-old after his mother discovered a bite mark on his neck. Temeeca Lashae Watt of Central, South Carolina allegedly had sex with the boy during a sleep over at her home on March 16 because her son and the boy were friends. The next day she allegedly performed a second sex act on the teen on the side of the road while driving to a convenience store. On his return home, his mother noticed the... 

Police are searching for an impoverished woman who left her newborn girl with a good Samaritan who used to feed her. Lydia Romero, who turned 66 on Wednesday, was cooking a family dinner in celebration, when someone came to the door of her Rogers Ave. apartment in Crown Heights just after 6 p.m. Wednesday. When she opened the door, she found the woman she knew only as “Little Bit” standing there and assumed she wanted food. To her shock,... 

A mom who killed her daughter in a brutal scissor attack wanted to clear an ‘evil presence’ from her Nevada home, police said. Danielle Yvonne Slaughter, 27, was found by police on Sunday, naked and bloody, running through Las Vegas, according to court documents released Tuesday. She told officers the blood on her hands was the ‘lamb of god’ and asked ‘Did I kill my daughter?’ Is she dead?’  Police went to Slaughter’s house,... 

A woman who locked her 14-year-old son in a squalid trailer and fed him just a few times a week has been jailed for three years. Amanda Jolliff, 37, pleaded guilty to false imprisonment and child abuse after police found the boy living in a rodent-infested mobile home in Erie, Colorado. Police said the boy’s bedroom window was boarded up, and there was an outside lock on his bedroom door in which he had imprisoned for three and a half years. Judge... 

According to the Chicago Suntimes, a source close to Whitney Houston’s mother, Cissy Houston, revealed that Cissy confronted the traitor who sold the final photo of Whitney in an open casket to the National Enquirer. The Houston family source said Cissy “had a come-to-Jesus moment” with the guilty party and demanded the alleged six-figure fee for the photo be donated to charity. Insiders are whispering that the person who sold the final photo... 

The 30-year-old singer took newborn daughter Blue Ivy for a stroll around New York City today with her mother, Tina Knowles. Even with her two-month-old daughter strapped to her chest, she still managed to look sensational. She’s been giving her beloved high heels a rest in recent weeks, and taken to wearing a flatter sort of footwear. It isn’t easy to stroll in sky-high stilettos, which is why Beyoncé  wore a pair of black leather... 

A mother was arrested after police received a tip-off she was selling sex with her six-year-old daughter to strangers in return for drugs. The 35-year-old, from Jacksonville Beach, Georgia, was arrested and charged with child neglect after a homeless man told police he had been to the house to use drugs and witnessed the sexual abuse. After interviewing her daughter, who gave them a detailed account of the ongoing sexual and physical abuse in the... 

A 14-year-old boy shot his mother ‘at least ten times’ as she slept on the couch, it has today emerged. The teen, named by family members as Joshua Smith, from east Detroit, allegedly unleashed a hail of bullets on Tamiko Robinson, 36, in the early hours of Monday morning, according to a police spokesman. Smith, who was on the swimming team at Kettering High School, was said to be angry that his mother had tried to keep him off the... 

I can’t imagine the pain Cissy Houston must be feeling, having to bury her own child.TMZ reports she’s planning to go back to the Beverly Hills hotel room where her daughter died, in an attempt to get some closure. According to sources close to Cissy, she wants to go back to room 434 at the Beverly Hilton hotel and reestablish a spiritual connection with her daughter … in order to come to terms with her sudden death. We’re told Cissy plans...