A teacher accused of having sex with two teenage pupils has told a jury she ruined her “dream job” with stupid “mistakes”. Rebecca Joynes denies having sex with the two boys but admitted, in Manchester Crown Court, to having broken safeguarding rules by being in contact with them on Snapchat and having them back to her apartment … Read more
A Texas stepmom who starved a four-year-old boy to death and filmed him sobbing and begging for bread on the morning he died has been sentenced to 25 years in jail. Miranda Casarez, 25, remained stony-faced and denied any responsibility for the death of Benjamin Cervera even as her punishment was handed down. Her attorneys begged for clemency at … Read more
Police in Milton, Florida arrested a man after he pulled a gun on an Uber driver earlier this week who was dropping his daughter off. Sean Hollonbeck forced the driver out of the car and onto the ground and has since been charged with false imprisonment and aggravated assault with a weapon, WEAR News reports. After pulling him … Read more
An Arizona woman accused of attempting to kill her husband by poisoning his coffee has been sentenced to three years probation. Melody Felicano Johnson was initially charged with attempted first-degree murder and pleaded guilty to two counts of the lesser felony charge of adding poison or a harmful substance to food or drink in April. … Read more
Sandra and Jaime Melgar’s story began 32 years before the tragedy that struck. The pair started dating while they were students at Lamar High School in Houston, Texas. Sandra, a new student from Laredo, Texas, caught the eye of Jaime, who had spent most of his life in Houston after immigrating from Guatemala with his … Read more
An Idaho man was sentenced to 30 years behind bars following “purposely” spreading HIV. Ada County Sheriffs Department began their investigation into Alexander Louie in Aug. 2023, when a detective posed as a 15-year-old boy and began messaging him. He sent the prosecutor, posting as a “teen boy,” nude photos and promised to record a planned sexual … Read more
The New Hampshire man convicted of murdering his 5-year-old daughter Harmony Montgomery was sentenced Thursday to 45 years to life in prison in a case that spurred an investigation into the actions of the child protective services system and rattled relations between Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Adam Montgomery was found guilty in February of second-degree murder in … Read more
A maths teacher got pregnant by one of her pupils while awaiting trial for taking another schoolboy back to her luxury apartment for sex, a court heard today. Rebecca Joynes, 30, had been on bail accused of ‘grooming’ a 15-year-old for sex by buying him a £345 Gucci belt from Selfridges at the Trafford Centre. … Read more
Two teens kicked out of their elite California Catholic school while falsely accused of wearing blackface have been jointly awarded more than $1 million after proving it was just a green acne face mask. The then-students at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View were just 14 when they took a photo during a sleepover … Read more
Texas mom Savannah Kriger murdered her 3-year-old son after recording a FaceTime video for her ex-husband in which she says to the boy, “Say goodbye to daddy,” the Bexar County Sheriff, Javier Salazar, said in a May 1 press conference about their March 18 deaths. The child, Kaiden, then said goodbye in the short video before Kriger, … Read more