child murder

A six-year-old Michigan boy is dead after suffering “horrific” abuse at the hands of his mother and her boyfriend, with police saying he was mercilessly beaten, stapled to a wall, and shot with a BB gun.

The pair of Venezuelan illegal migrants who allegedly murdered Houston 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray lured the girl under a bridge, stripped off her clothes, and assaulted her for two hours before killing her, prosecutors said.

A Missouri woman has been charged with first degree murder after reportedly admitting to killing both of her children, telling officers she attempted to “sacrifice” her two-year-old son.

Police have accused Nathan Richard Allen and Arnelle Arnelia Floyd of Homestead, Florida, of murdering their six-month-old daughter.

The mother of a five-year-old boy — found dead in a suitcase in the Indiana woods — has been arrested after nearly two years on the run.

A law enforcement body cam video taken in the Polk County Jail shows accused child-killer Don Steven McDougal appearing naked before a magistrate judge. McDougal refused to put on clothes for the hearing, where the judge advised him of his Capital Murder charge and ordered him held without bond.

Police have charged a father and daughter with murder and incest after discovering three dead babies in a house in northern Poland.

Senior doctors said they had raised concerns about Letby as early as 2015 and children might have been saved if managers had listened.

A man convicted of murdering his two infant children will receive taxpayer-funded breast augmentation surgery now that he identifies as transgender.

Brazilian Justice Minister Flavio Dino on Wednesday announced new restrictions on social media to combat an “epidemic” of assaults on children. Dino said website administrators will be required to ban users who “are promoting or supporting attacks or violence against schools.”

The Premium Times of Nigeria reported on Monday that a panel investigating human rights violations in the insurgent-plagued northeast has heard testimony from 50 witnesses on abuses perpetrated by the Nigerian military, including mass abortions and the murder of children.

Two girls have confessed to the killing of a 12-year-old girl, whose body was found last weekend in the German town of Freudenberg.

A Texas woman is accused of stabbing three of her children to death and injuring two more of her children, according to ABC News affiliate WFAA.

A 14-month-old baby was among three people led to their deaths by migrant smugglers after a boat sank off the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Police in Germany arrested an Eritrean accused of stabbing two young teens walking past an asylum home on their way to school, killing one.

The Algerian illegal migrant suspected of raping and murdering 12-year-old French girl Lola should have been deported in September.

Two Algerians have been indicted for the rape, torture and murder of a 12-year-old girl named Lola who was discovered packed into a box.

A nurse is accused of murdering seven babies as a court heard testimony from a mother who allegedly witnessed the nurse murdering her child.

A nine-year-old girl has been found stabbed to death in Boston, England, amid a nationwide surge in police-recorded violent crime.

A man who stabbed and threw his children from a fifth-floor apartment balcony has been sentenced to psychiatric care. 

Prosecutors have indicted three North Africans in connection to an alleged arson that led to the deaths of eight, including two infants. 

A 31-year-old man has been arrested for murder following a gang-related shooting in the Swedish municipality of Botkyrka last year that left a 12-year-old girl dead. The 31-year-old was finally taken into custody on Tuesday for the shooting, which saw

A Senegalese man has confessed to stabbing his two children and throwing them off a 50-foot balcony in western Stockholm, killing one. 

Two children believed to be under ten years old were allegedly thrown off a 50-foot high balcony in Stockholm, Sweden, on Sunday, with one of the children dying and the other gravely injured.

A 30-year-old Turkish national has been accused of deliberately running down a group of German schoolchildren in Hesse, leaving an eight-year-old girl dead and two other girls seriously injured.

An Afghan migrant believed to be linked to the rape and murder of a 13-year-old Austrian girl has been arrested in London following an international manhunt.

Police have discovered the dismembered remains of a murdered 13-year-old boy along with alleged “Satanic” objects in a villa in the commune of Tarascon in southern France.

Five Miami-Dade County jail inmates attacked a sleeping Jorge Barahona due to “the nature of his pending charges.”

A kidnapping case ended in shock for much of France this week after a one-year-old baby was found dead in a bin, with her mother later confessing to the murder.

An Arkansas man has been accused of murdering a mother’s two young children while she watched before he then killed her.

Amanda Gail Oakes, 36, was sentenced on Wednesday to 99 years for the death of her six-month-old son, found packed into a motel freezer.

Louisiana prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for a woman who they say ordered her girlfriend to murder her six-year-old son.

A 40-year-old African migrant has been arrested after allegedly pushing a woman and her 8-year-old son into the path of an oncoming express train.

The relative of a man who killed his infant son was caught on camera attacking the convicted murderer outside an Indiana courtroom Wednesday.

Johnny Peluyera, 16, was murdered in front of his father during a meet-up to sell his Xbox on Wednesday.

According to authorities, Anthony Trice, 26, killed his infant son with a blow to the head after losing at a video game.