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A Bogalusa babysitter is in jail facing murder charges after the baby girl she was watching died. Amy Thomas is accused of killing little Diana Nelson. Investigators say Thomas beat the six-week-old baby over the head, singed her with a cigarette lighter, and drugged her with an anti-anxiety prescription medication. Amy Thomas Diana Nelson

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For Cindy Nooney's 3-year-old twin boys, playing with the Thomas the Train set at their local bookstore in Southern California is a major thrill. Jack and Sam push Thomas, Arthur and friends down the track, they run around the table, jump up and down — and, of course, they squeeeaal. Nooney expects as much in the children's section of the store. But on a recent afternoon, she was surprised by an employee who confronted her, calling her darling Jack a tyrant. "He was a little loud but this is a children's section," says Nooney. "They run a noisy, cavernous bookstore...

KILLEEN, Texas - A Fort Hood soldier and his wife have been accused of injury to a child for allegedly forcing their 3-year-old daughter to beat up an older boy as they videotaped it, Killeen police said. .... The fight allegedly occurred Saturday while the couple babysat for the 5-year-old son of a friend, police said. When the boy's mother arrived to pick him up, she turned on the couple's video camera, which had previously been used to tape the children playing. Police said the tape shows the soldier commanding his daughter to knock the victim down, kick him and...

A teen baby sitter in Central Florida was arrested after a parent's hidden camera videotaped him forcing two 8-year-olds to perform sex acts on him, according to investigators. Flagler County detectives said the father of two children who Brandon Jaffe, 15, was baby sitting recently decided to set up a surveillance camera to watch the 15-year-old and his kids. The video captured Jaffe forcing the young children to perform oral sex on him, a police news release said. The high school student faces 11 felony counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child. "These type of cases require us...

(KUTV) SALT LAKE CITY, Utah A mother is upset after a 14-year-old babysitter engaged in sexual conduct with her eight-year-old boy, and the eight-year-old was charged with lewd conduct. Prosecutors have since dropped the charges against the boy, but his mother is still concerned. The sexual conduct occurred during a game of “truth or dare” while the boy was being watched by the babysitter. Prosecutors say that, while the babysitter initiated the contact, the young boy was a willing participant. “She dared my son to touch her breasts,” says Michelle Grosbeck, the boy’s mother. After hiring the teenager to baby...

Baby Sitter Arrested, Accused Of Witchcraft, Satanism Woman Admits To Studying Satanism, Giving Girls Alcohol POSTED: 2:42 p.m. EST November 14, 2003 UPDATED: 2:44 p.m. EST November 14, 2003 DES MOINES, Iowa -- Des Moines police filed a criminal charge in a bizarre case which they say involves a baby sitter, two 8-year-old girls, witchcraft and alcohol. Video Video: Baby Sitter Admits Giving Girls Alcohol, Studying Satanism Melissa Fernandez, 20, of Des Moines, is accused of giving 8-year-old twins alcohol, and providing a sharp instrument for one of the girls to cut herself in a ritual to become blood sisters....

Des Moines police filed a criminal charge in a bizarre case which they say involves a baby sitter, two 8-year-old girls, witchcraft and alcohol. Melissa Fernandez, 20, of Des Moines, is accused of giving 8-year-old twins alcohol, and providing a sharp instrument for one of the girls to cut herself in a ritual to become blood sisters. Fernandez is charged with one count of child endangerment. Tina Kish told NewsChannel 8 she was shocked by what her daughters told her about the times they stayed with Fernandez, a family friend and baby sitter who also lives in the Park Ridge...

Mom admits killing son in toss off footbridge She agrees to a term of 18 years in prison Friday, January 24, 2003BY RUDY LARINI Star-Ledger Staff Her family had told her that if she ever needed them to care for her son, they would be there for her. But she didn't turn to them late that Saturday night in June 2000 when she wanted to go out and couldn't find anyone to watch the toddler. So she took him to a footbridge over the Passaic River in Paterson and  tossed him into the water just above the Great Falls. Yesterday,...