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Girl, 7, Dies in Freak Bouncy Castle Accident

Freak Bouncy Castle
Accident Proves Fatal

Mar 28, 2016 4:52 PM CDT

Freak Bouncy Castle Accident Proves Fatal

Summer Grant, 7, was carried away by high winds

(Newser) - A seven-year-old girl died on Saturday, all because she was playing in a bouncy castle. A gust of wind sent the inflatable rolling for about 500 feet in a park near London, England, with young Summer Grant trapped inside, the Telegraph reports. Taken to hospital, she died of multiple injuries....

Boy Shaken
as Baby Dies
12 Years Later

Mar 23, 2016 4:44 PM CDT

Boy Shaken as Baby Dies 12 Years Later

Aiden Stein never recovered

(Newser) - A 12-year-old boy who was shaken as a baby and remained in a vegetative state for the rest of his life has died, authorities said Wednesday. Aiden Stein died Sunday at a Columbus hospital. The case drew national attention when his parents waged a successful legal fight to prevent a...

'Drill Sergeant
From Hell'
Dies in Prison

Feb 14, 2016 4:40 PM CST

'Drill Sergeant From Hell' Dies in Prison

Joyce Garrard was convicted of punishing granddaughter to death

(Newser) - An Alabama woman convicted of punishing her 9-year-old granddaughter until the girl vomited, collapsed, and died has herself died in prison, the Washington Post reports. Joyce Garrard, 50—dubbed by prosecutors the "drill sergeant from hell"—suffered a heart attack last Sunday after a family visit and died...

Gun in Grandma's Bed Kills
3-Year-Old Sleeping There

Jan 20, 2016 2:40 PM CST

Gun in Grandma's Bed Kills 3-Year-Old Sleeping There

Police arrested 42-year-old grandmother

(Newser) - A New Orleans woman allegedly slept with both her gun and her grandson in her bed, with tragic consequences. Police were called to home around 2am Wednesday to find the 3-year-old boy had been shot in the chest; he later died at a hospital, NBC News reports. The grandmother, 42-year-old...

Cops: Dad Smothered Son While Playing Video Games

Jan 1, 2016 4:44 PM CST

Cops: Dad Smothered Son While Playing Video Games

Boy, 6, suffocated on Christmas Eve

(Newser) - Authorities say a 6-year-old Florida boy is dead after his father pinned him against a couch while the man and his girlfriend played video games Christmas Eve. Local media outlets report that 31-year-old James Dearman was charged Thursday with aggravated manslaughter of a child. A Sarasota County Sheriff's Office...

Mom Who
Woke to Find
Baby Dead
Charged
With Murder

Dec 31, 2015 11:18 AM CST

Mom Who Woke to Find Baby Dead Charged With Murder

2014 case is just now being reported

(Newser) - On Nov. 8, 2014, Virginia 25-year-old Candice Christa Semidey fed her 4-month-old son, Jahari Jones, swaddled him, and put him to bed. She, too, went to sleep, only to wake up and find Jahari dead. Semidey was charged with felony murder. Why? Because she wrapped Jahari in a blanket and...

Parents Charged After
Space Heater Kills Toddler

Dec 23, 2015 6:05 PM CST

Parents Charged After Space Heater Kills Toddler

They allegedly left him alone for 38 hours while doing meth

(Newser) - Authorities say a 2-year-old boy in Missouri died after being left alone in a room with a running space heater for 38 hours straight while his parents did meth, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. "They heard the child's cries and did nothing," a county prosecutor says. The...

On 3rd Anniversary
of Sandy Hook,
a Sobering Stat

Dec 14, 2015 10:54 AM CST

On 3rd Anniversary of Sandy Hook, a Sobering Stat

554 kids have died by gun: report

(Newser) - Although it's the mass shootings in the US that we see most in the news, they're not what's causing the majority of gun deaths among our youngest citizens. Instead, it's what NBC News calls the "steady drumbeat of deaths in ones and twos" from suicides,...

Girl Dies Decade After
Abuse, Babysitter Charged

Nov 26, 2015 1:09 PM CST

Girl Dies Decade After Abuse, Babysitter Charged

Christopher Byrd has already served time for crime

(Newser) - A babysitter has been charged with murdering the child in his care after an incident in 2005. Here’s the weird part: the girl died this January. Authorities say Christopher Byrd violently shook the 11-month-old daughter of his girlfriend, whom he lived with in La Habra, Calif., until she fell...

8-Year-Old Girl Killed
While Driving Car

Nov 24, 2015 3:40 PM CST

8-Year-Old Girl Killed While Driving Car

'My heart is dying; there are no words'

(Newser) - A driver died Sunday in Kansas after losing control of her 2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, rolling down an embankment, and landing upside down in a creek, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. The driver? An 8-year-old girl. "Grandpa said he gave her permission to drive and she crashed," a Kansas Highway...

Dad Had Hands
in Air as Cops
Shot Boy, 6: Video

Nov 10, 2015 9:19 AM CST

Dad Had Hands in Air as Cops Shot Boy, 6: Video

Bail for the 2 Louisiana cops has been set at $1M each

(Newser) - The two Louisiana cops accused of gunning down a 6-year-old autistic boy will each have to come up with $1 million bail, a judge ruled Monday, CNN reports. The judge also ordered 23-year-old Norris Greenhouse Jr. and 32-year-old Derrick Stafford—charged with the murder of Jeremy Mardis and attempted murder...

2 Cops Arrested in
Shooting Death of Boy, 6

Nov 7, 2015 6:11 AM CST

2 Cops Arrested in Shooting Death of Boy, 6

Body camera footage is disturbing, police say

(Newser) - Two Louisiana police officers have been arrested and charged with second-degree murder in the Tuesday night shooting death of 6-year-old Jeremy Mardis . Officers Norris Greenhouse Jr., 23, and Lt. Derrick Stafford, 32, were working side jobs as marshals in the city of Marksville when the shooting occurred, and State Police...

Searchers Find Baby Mom Allegedly Put in Creek

Nov 5, 2015 4:41 PM CST

Searchers Find Baby Mom Allegedly Put in Creek

Body of 5-month-old girl found

(Newser) - Searchers found the body of a baby in a swollen, murky South Carolina creek on Thursday, two days after a mother said she put the 5-month-old girl into the water , according to police. Divers found the body about 3:45pm, Horry County police Chief Saundra Rhodes said at a news...

Murky Tale Emerges as Cops ID Dismembered Toddler

Nov 5, 2015 8:41 AM CST

Murky Tale Emerges as Cops ID Dismembered Toddler

Kyrian Knox, 2, was reportedly left with a family friend in August

(Newser) - Police say they've identified the toddler whose body parts were found in a Chicago lagoon over Labor Day weekend. DNA evidence provided by the mother of a missing 2-year-old boy in Rockford, Ill., about 90 miles northwest of Chicago, has come back as matching the remains found in Garfield...

Marshals Shoot at Fleeing Car, Kill 6-Year-Old Inside

Nov 4, 2015 6:15 PM CST

Marshals Shoot at Fleeing Car, Kill 6-Year-Old Inside

Boy was in the car with his dad, whom marshals were chasing

(Newser) - A 6-year-old boy was killed and his father critically wounded after marshals for a central-Louisiana city fired at their vehicle as the father was trying to flee, officials said. The two were shot about 9:30pm Tuesday in the city of Marksville. Avoyelles Parish Coroner Dr. L. J. Mayeux identified...

Accident Wipes
Mom's Memory
of Dead Baby,
Husband

Oct 23, 2015 7:44 AM CDT

Accident Wipes Mom's Memory of Dead Baby, Husband

A car slammed into the back of the family's vehicle in Florida: police

(Newser) - Not only did Ivelisse Martinez lose her husband and baby in a car crash in Florida last week, she also lost all memory of them. Authorities say Jose Vargas Rosario, 35, and Martinez, 27, were stopped at a red light in Altamonte Springs on Oct. 16 when a Mercury Grand...

3rd Baby in 3 Months Is Thrown From NYC Window

Oct 15, 2015 5:33 PM CDT

3rd Baby in 3 Months Is Thrown From NYC Window

6-month-old girl died as neighbors watched

(Newser) - A 6-month-old girl died Thursday after being tossed from the window of an apartment building, witnesses and police said, the third child killed that way in the city in three months. The New York Police Department said a 25-year-old woman believed to be the infant's mother was in the...

Mom Finds Poignant Note From Her Dead 6-Year-Old

'We have no idea when he wrote it,' his mom says

(Newser) - Like many 6-year-olds, Leland Shoemake loved getting dirty. He also loved history, Steven Spielberg, and Adam Sandler. But "the one thing he loved most was playing in the dirt," his mother, Amber Shoemake, writes on Facebook . "I never imagined that would be the thing that would take...

After Baby Doe's
Murder, a Heroin
Binge: Prosecutor

Sep 22, 2015 6:02 AM CDT

After Baby Doe's Murder, a Heroin Binge: Prosecutor

Couple allegedly high, perhaps for days, after Bella's death

(Newser) - Locking Bella Bond in a closet as she screamed had, predictably, done little to calm the 2-year-old in the past. So when she refused to go to sleep one day in late May, Michael McCarthy told Rachelle Bond, his girlfriend and Bella's mom, that he'd quiet her, per...

Child's Head Surfaces
in Chicago Lagoon

Sep 8, 2015 9:23 AM CDT

Child's Head Surfaces in Chicago Lagoon

Body parts belong to African-American child, aged 2 or 3: police

(Newser) - Police have found a head in the Chicago lagoon that yielded a toddler's feet and hands over the weekend. Authorities now say the remains belong to an African-American child, aged 2 or 3. The cause of death is not yet clear as the body parts were found in an...