A four-year-old Nicaraguan migrant child is believed to have drowned after his 32-year-old mother dropped him as she crossed the Rio Grande. The mother lost the little boy as she crossed the swiftly moving border river just south of Eagle Pass, Texas early Saturday morning. Border Patrol agents continue to search for the child with negative results.
A Texas woman was arrested after authorities say they found two toddlers ‘hogtied’ and caged in a locked bedroom of a San Antonio residence.
Border Patrol agents assigned to an immigration checkpoint near the Arizona border with Mexico found an armed human smuggler with three people locked in the trunk of the vehicle. The three migrants included a minor.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued three migrants who became endangered in the Rio Grande as they crossed from Mexico to Texas. In one incident, the agents rescued a man and his one-year-old child.
A migrant woman from Guatemala reportedly abandoned her son on the Texas side of the Rio Grande and returned to Mexico. Border Patrol agents found the child with a group of 13 migrants, Laredo Sector officials reported.
Border Patrol agents in the Del Rio Sector found two small children along the Rio Grande.
Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents rescued a five-year-old girl after human smugglers abandoned her on an island in the Rio Grande. Video released by Border Patrol shows marine unit agents reuniting the girl with her mother.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers found a small migrant child who human smugglers abandoned after putting him on the international border crossing from Mexico. The smugglers moved the child across the international boundary mark on the Paso Del Norte border crossing and instructed him to walk north.
Border Patrol officials in West Texas tweeted a photograph of the startling discovery of a small child packed in a duffel bag. Agents found the endangered child in a vehicle at an immigration checkpoint in the Del Rio Sector.
Human smugglers in Arizona endangered the lives of three migrant children by packing them with seven adults in the bed of a pickup truck. Border Patrol officials report the migrants were hidden under plywood in the rear of the truck.
Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande Valley Sector helped deliver the baby of a migrant woman who had just crossed from Mexico. The delivery took place in a field along the Rio Grande near La Joya, Texas, last week.
Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents saved the life of an 11-year-old boy after he collapsed in the desert on the morning of May 11. The boy was with a group of five migrants who illegally crossed the border near the Tinajas Atlas Mountains southeast of Yuma, Arizona.
A Texas rancher living north of Eagle Pass discovered five unaccompanied migrant children abandoned by smugglers on their farmland Saturday night. The five small girls, ranging in ages from one to six years old, were led across the Rio Grande River and abandoned the evening before. The human smugglers left them with no food, water, or any adults to care for them throughout the night.
A new child sexual exploitation unit in Manchester, England, has been launched after years of failure on so-called “grooming” rape gangs.
A mother accused of leaving her two daughters alone in a Motel 6 room while she was at work has prompted mixed reactions on social media.
An Afghan illegal migrant has been charged with child endangerment offences after getting a 6-year-old killed by bringing him on a dangerous dinghy trip to Greece.
A New Jersey mother suffocated her 17-month-old son using a cleaning wipe because she thought the infant was getting in the way while she was having an affair, prosecutors say.
Rio Grande Valley Sector Border Patrol agents resuscitated a drowning infant migrant after his mother attempted to illegally cross the Rio Grande into Texas on Wednesday.
A three-month-old boy nearly drowned in the Rio Grande near Eagle Pass, Texas, as he was carried by a previously deported Honduran claiming to be the child’s father. Border Patrol agents rescued the pair and later flew the infant to a San Antonio hospital for intensive care.
Cierre Wood, a former Notre Dame running back who washed out of the NFL, has been charged with murder in Las Vegas after forcing a 5-year-old girl to exercise until she was so fatigued she fell and slammed her head on the floor causing her death, police say.
A special education teacher in California has been suspended after it was learned that he was running a “Fight Club” in his classroom.
Authorities arrested an 18-year-old mother in Oklahoma after her nine-month-old tested positive for opioids at a local hospital, police said.
A Texas woman will spend nearly three decades in prison for starving, beating, and locking her five-year-old stepson in a filthy closet beneath a staircase where he wore only a diaper.
A Texas mother faces charges of child endangerment after her two-year-old son tested positive for methamphetamine and heroin.
Police in Texas arrested a school bus driver after he drove into a flooded road with a student on board. A video camera showed the bus as it was swept away by a raging current.
A Texas man was sentenced Thursday to 244 years in prison for brutally raping his 38-day-old daughter while high on methamphetamine.
A man attempted to buy an eight-year-old girl from her mother for $200,000 Friday afternoon in a Florida Walmart store, police said.
A Central Texas mother pleaded guilty Monday to four felony charges in connection with the deaths of her two infant daughters. Last year, she was accused and then indicted by a grand jury after leaving the babies in a hot SUV for more than 10 hours.
An Indiana school bus driver lost her job and is facing criminal charges after a video surfaced of her letting a few students take the wheel, according to multiple reports.
An Arizona mother, armed with a sidearm, took four children along for a human smuggling ride Sunday evening. The woman appeared to use three of her own children and a 5-year-old nephew as cover while she allegedly attempted to smuggle an illegal immigrant through a Border Patrol inspection checkpoint.
A dramatic police helicopter video shows a Texas woman fleeing on foot with a baby in a carrier after she crashed her Mercedes SUV at the conclusion of a high-speed police chase.
Authorities arrested an Iowa woman for pouring rubbing alcohol on her two-year-old toddler and posting the encounter to Facebook Live on Thursday, police said.
An underage pregnant girl and a 1-year-old child were among a group of 36 minor and 21 adult migrants rescued in the 108-degree heat of the Arizona desert after they illegally crossed the border from Mexico. Many in the group required medical attention for exposure to the heat and dehydration.
Border Patrol agents patrolling the border near Lukeville, Arizona, rescued a 6-year-old boy after his human smuggler abandoned him without food or water. The boy’s parents are reportedly already in the U.S.
Two parents have been arrested after police found their 13 children shackled to their beds inside the couple’s California home, officials say.
Sherin Mathews, the three-year-old North Texas girl whose remains were found in a culvert nearly three months ago, died from “homicidal violence.”
The Trump Administration is reportedly considering a policy change that will protect children being endangered by illegal immigrant parents and families. Administration officials believe parents who turn their children over to cartel-connected human smugglers put them in grave danger. Left-of-center media outlets decry the policy change being discussed as one that would “tear families apart.”
A Washington man is in custody after he allegedly had sex with a female passenger while drunk behind the wheel, plowing his car into a tree.
Police arrested the mother of the three-year-old North Texas girl, who was found dead in a culvert in October, on charges of abandoning or endangering the child.
A Wisconsin mom strapped her young son to her minivan’s roof to hold down a plastic pool the family purchased, police say.
