Category: Crime and Judiciary

A woman who killed her infant son in 1986 in Connecticut and went on to live a seemingly quiet, normal life with her family in Florida for three decades was sentenced Tuesday to five years of probation. Janita Phillips, 65, of Lake Mary, Florida, was charged with murder in 2021, after police said new DNA...

 A 9-year-old girl from Canada found dead in an upstate New York pond after her father reported her missing was drowned, according to preliminary autopsy results released Tuesday. Luciano Frattolin, 45, of Montreal, was charged with murdering and concealing the corpse of his daughter, Melina Frattolin. He pleaded not guilty Monday and was being held in a county jail....

In a shocking incident on Monday afternoon, an 18-year-old youth threatened a minor girl at knifepoint in a residential area of Satara city. The girl, a Class 10 student, was held by the youth with a knife to her throat in broad daylight. Timely intervention by alert citizens and police personnel averted a potential tragedy...

The parents of a man who died alone in a Colorado jail cell after an ulcer burned a hole in his digestive tract and left him in what they said was excruciating pain for about 15 hours filed a federal lawsuit Monday, accusing the jail’s nurses and sheriff’s deputes of ignoring his cries for help....

Venezuela is investigating El Salvador’s President Bukele and top officials over the alleged torture of 252 migrants deported from the US  Venezuela’s attorney general’s office said on Monday that it has opened an investigation into El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele for alleged mistreatment and human rights violations against Venezuelan migrants. The Venezuelan government presented photos and testimonies of...

The head of a violent Ecuadorian gang accused of smuggling cocaine and firearms between South America and the U.S. pleaded not guilty to drug and gun charges Monday in New York. José Adolfo Macías Villamar, whose nickname is “Fito,” appeared in federal court in Brooklyn a day after Ecuador extradited him to the U.S. A judge ordered...

A 16-year-old boy who described himself in a TikTok video as a “serial rapist” has been sentenced after raping three teenage girls and sexually assaulting a fourth. In what police described as “heinous” crimes, the boy used social media to contact the girls – who were between 13 and 15 – and convinced them to...

US President Donald Trump’s administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977. Prominent members of King’s family had opposed the release. A statement...

A man whose 9-year-old daughter was found dead in a wooded pond after he reported that she had been abducted while they were they were vacationing in upstate New York was charged Monday with murder. Luciano Frattolin, 45, of Montreal is charged with murdering and concealing the corpse of his daughter, Melina Frattolin, according to New York...

A mother has been jailed for 15 years after causing the death of her baby daughter by violently shaking her. Melissa Wilband’s four-month-old baby Lexi died in April 2020 at Bristol Children’s Hospital. Wilband, 28 and from Newent in the Forest of Dean, denied killing her daughter, but jurors found her guilty of manslaughter following a four-week...