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A babysitter is accused of throwing boiling water over a three-year-old girl and fatally smashing her head into a bath. Iesha Harris, 30, was charged with murder and first-degree child abuse after autistic toddler Harmoni Henderson was found dead on Monday. Harmoni's mother Paris England left her at Harris home in Detroit overnight, as she was a trusted family friend who often looked after the little girl. But instead of watching her, Harris locked her in a room with her own one-year-old daughter and smoked marijuana for three hours with friends. Harris allegedly admitted to detectives that she poured scalding...

Taking on a paid role as a babysitter is a rite of passage for many teens eager to take on added responsibility and earn some cash. But a young babysitter took drastic action after the parents of her young charges failed to come home at the designated time, concocting a story that their garage was being broken into. Now, after she was taken to task by the children's mother, she has asked the internet if she was in the wrong..... "I asked how late they would need me and if I should pack an overnight bag if they were going...

President Joe Biden said Sunday on CBS’s “60 Minutes” that he was not concerned about his son Hunter Biden’s behavior in any way. Anchor Scott Pelley said, “His son, Hunter, has been a lightning rod for suspicion. Hunter Biden’s former addiction to crack cocaine led to a life he describes as nonstop depravity. He has also acknowledged a federal investigation into his taxes. Congress investigated Hunter Biden’s job with a Ukrainian company at the time that his father ran Ukrainian policy in the Obama administration. A Republican investigation, however, uncovered no wrongdoing by then-Vice President Biden.”

First lady Jill Biden corrected her husband, President Joe Biden, on Tuesday after he mistakenly referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as the first lady. The president confused the two women in his life during a speech at a Women’s History Month celebration at the White House.

First Lady Jill Biden tried to interrupt President Joe Biden on Wednesday after he started getting into a debate with a reporter about abortion. As the President and First Lady left the White House to board Marine One, Biden jogged up and stopped to talk to reporters. Biden had ashes on his forehead for Ash Wednesday, a day marking the beginning of the Catholic season of Lent which prompted a reporter to ask him why he supported abortion when he claimed to be Catholic. “I tell you what, I don’t want to get in a debate with you on theology,...

ALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. (WPEC) — A 27-year-old teacher at Grove Park Elementary School in Florida is behind bars for soliciting and traveling to meet a 2-year-old, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. Xavier Donte Alexander, who teaches fourth grade, was arrested Thursday and will appear in court Friday morning. According to Alexander's LinkedIn profile, he's been teaching at Grove Park for six months and has been an employee for the Palm Beach County School District since 2012. Detectives learned through an investigation that Alexander is also a babysitter on Care.com and other nanny websites, according to the sheriff's...

Little baby "Patricia-Ann “Annie” Rader", age 1 👼🏼 Murdered by Texas Babysitter! I could have just posted the link but Jay really does a good job in explaining it and has better pictures. Shawn Vincent Boniello, who’s also known as Shayla Angeline Boniello, 30, remains in the Milam County Jail.

The mugshot says it all. A babysitter accused of molesting a 1-year-old girl was tackled, hit with a dresser, and punched several times by the child’s father before his arrest in Kansas City, Missouri, last week, according to police.

FULL TITLE: Toddler, 2, suffers severe brain injuries when her male babysitter, 16, 'disciplines' her because she 'snuck a piece of candy' A two-year-old was unresponsive and suffered serious brain injuries after her 16-year-old babysitter allegedly 'disciplined' her. Gia Faye, 2, was supposed to be asleep in her Brownsville, California home when she was playing with a toy Thursday afternoon. Her babysitter, a teenage boy known to the family, took the toy from her and left the room. When he got back she had taken a piece of candy. SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO

FULL TITLE: Babysitter is arrested on abuse charges after outraged parents share their bruised son's horrific injuries on Facebook The babysitter accused of abusing a one-year-old boy has been arrested and charged in Oregon after social media users demanded action to be taken by authorities and officials. Markell Hilaire, 27, is facing charges of criminal mistreatment and assault for an incident parents Joshua Marbury and Alicia Quinney claimed left their son, Jacob, with a bruise shaped like a hand print on his face. Hilaire - who is a friend of the child's father - was arrested Friday after thousands of...

REYNOLDSBURG, Ohio - Family photos show a baby with the biggest, bluest of eyes who was just starting to develop his personality. "He was a happy baby,” Denise Mulkey said of her grandson Haddix. “He loved to be cuddled and held, like normal babies. He just loved to be cuddled.” Today those photos are all Haddix's mother has left of him. "I'll have to go see my baby at a cemetery. Not in my arms, at a cemetery,” Katie Mulkey said. Police said Haddix and his sister were two of eight children Lori Conley was watching in her Reynoldsburg home....

A babysitter charged with murdering a 16-month-old boy whose family lived in the same Staten Island building subjected him to hours of physical and sexual abuse while he was left in her care over the weekend, prosecutors said on Wednesday. The babysitter, Gloria Fields, made her first appearance in Criminal Court on Wednesday, where a prosecutor outlined accusations of torture that led to outbursts of sobbing and screaming from the child’s relatives and others packed into the courtroom.

In less than a month, Casey Anthony will be forced to answer questions that have been a mystery since her daughter went missing in 2008, attorney Matt Morgan confirmed Thursday. "Casey Anthony will not be permitted to plead the Fifth as her appeals have now been resolved," said Morgan, attorney for Zenaida Gonzalez, who has filed suit against Anthony. "We look forward to getting answers to the questions we have had for a very long time." The deposition scheduled for Oct. 9 in Tampa is related to Gonzalez's defamation lawsuit.

HARDIN COUNTY, Ky. -- Kentucky State Police have arrested and charged a woman with first-degree criminal abuse, saying she severely injuring a 2-year-old girl. Police said 28-year-old Ashley Chapman was babysitting the toddler when the injuries happened. Police said the young girl is currently in critical condition at Kosair Children's Hospital. "She was found to be unresponsive and had large bruises over a large portion of her body," said Kentucky State Police spokesman Chris Rafferty. Court records said the victim lost consciousness after Chapman struck and severely shook the toddler at a mobile home in Radcliff. Court records said the...

A 32-year-old Webster man who allegedly advertised as a babysitter on Craigslist has been charged with sexually assaulting one of his charges. Steven P. Knox is free on $30,000 bond after being arrested Thursday on a charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child under the age of 14. According to court records, a 6-year-old girl told investigators that Knox, whom she knew as her babysitter, put his finger in her private area four times. The girl said Knox had put "ice" on his finger and that the penetration had burned. The assault allegedly took place at Knox's home on...

A New York television reporter returned home to a horrible scene Thursday night when he found his 5-week-old infant son and babysitter both dead. Authorities said 39-year-old Teresa Coffey likely suffered a fatal medical condition while she was holding the baby and collapsed on top of him.

MUNCIE, Ind. -- A central Indiana woman has been arrested for allegedly giving alcohol to teenagers to pay them for baby-sitting her three children. Thirty-year-old Lindsey R. Jones of Muncie faces preliminarily charges of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, neglect of a dependent and marijuana possession. She remained jailed Monday at the Delaware County Jail. The Star Press reports that a 15-year-old girl told police that Jones gave her alcohol Thursday in exchange for the teen baby-sitting her three children -- ages 11, 7 and 3. The teen told officers she then invited five friends over to drink...

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Predictably, the push has begun to get a Kennedy into the Senate seat held for lo those many years by Ted Kennedy. The Kennedys favorite newspaper - the Boston Globe - all but annointed Joe in a news story by Frank Phillips that also handily reminded everybody that the seat is, after all, the permanent property of the Kennedy family. Said Philips: [Snip] "All eyes now are on Joseph P. Kennedy II, the former US representative, with family members and political allies expecting him to make a decision very shortly on whether to enter the Democratic primary. "No other Kennedy...

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