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Teen Charged with Killing Her Own Baby in Horrific Way

GORDAN, Neb. — A 16-year-old girl from Nebraska has been charged with first-degree murder and use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony after allegedly stabbing and killing her newborn. The incident occurred in the town of Gordon, located in Sheridan County. According to court records, the teenager’s identity is being withheld at this time. Authorities were alerted to the situation on Monday evening when they received a report about a teenager who had …

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North Carolina Father Charged with Murder of Newborn Son in Hospital

In Raleigh, North Carolina, a 22-year-old father was apprehended last week, accused of fatally shaking his three-week-old son within the confines of a hospital where the infant’s twin sister was receiving care in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Noah Benjamin Bliss was arrested on Friday and faces charges of first-degree murder and intentional child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury, according to court documents. The victim, Gunner Bliss, was the son of the accused. …

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Newborn Found Deceased in Gas Station Restroom; Investigation Underway

A newborn was discovered deceased in a gas station restroom on Sunday morning, according to police reports. The woman seen in the surveillance video released by police is believed to be the last person to use the facility before the tragic discovery was made about an hour later. Detective Calab Bowling of the HPD Homicide Division shared during a press briefing that the video footage and witness accounts corroborate this timeline. However, it remains uncertain …

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Cleaning Crew Finds Two Babies Dead in Garbage Can at Daycare Center

On Thursday, two newborn infants were found dead at a daycare center in Chicago when a cleaning crew discovered them in a restroom. The Chicago Police Department responded to the childcare facility in the 400 block of East Ontario in the Streeterville area at around 6:59 p.m. and found the babies unresponsive in a trash bag. The infants were then taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital, where they were declared dead. A woman in the facility …

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Nurse Arrested for Slamming Newborn Baby’s Face Down into Hospital Bassinet

Amanda Burke, a 29-year-old nurse, is now facing criminal charges after a father captured her mistreating his newborn baby on camera at Good Samaritan Hospital in Suffolk County, New York. The footage taken on February 6 in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit allegedly shows Burke flipping the baby over and then forcefully pushing its face down into the bassinet. Fidel Sinclair, the father of the two-day-old baby named Nikko, was recording the incident in shock. …

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Newborn Found Dead in Abandoned Field

A newborn baby was found dead in a cardboard box in an abandoned field in Wisconsin. Santos Asucena Caseres Cruz, the mother, has been arrested in connection to the death. She was charged with one count of neglecting a child resulting in death, and moving, concealing, or burying the corpse of a child, according to legal documents. Whitewater Police Department officers responded to the report of a dead infant at the Twin Oaks Trailer Park, …

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Newborn Baby Found Abandoned in Gas Station Garbage Can

On Friday, a 25-year-old California mother was arrested and charged with attempted murder and felony child abuse after a newborn was discovered in a trash can outside Los Angeles. The suspect, Venissa Maldonado, has been apprehended by the Fullerton Police Department. According to KABC, an employee at a Chevron gas station discovered the infant crying in the restroom of its convenience store. According to a press release, the Fullerton Police stated that the officers “located …

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