Author: Maria Monroe

Many of Disney Pixar’s films are tailored to help little children understand complicated topics. The Deais family was deeply moved after seeing it in theaters. The film, which touches on Dia De Los Muertos, brought them to tears. It follows the journey of a young boy as he seeks to find his great-grandfather in the Land of the dead. Deais said the film helped Alexander find a connection with Ava Lynn. “(Alexander) understands that she has passed and is in heaven, he has seemed to grasp onto the reality of it in a sweet and innocent way a 4-year-old should…

While she was making a quick trip to her local Walmart for a prescription refill, Meghann Shaw witnessed something that she will never forget. She was busy with her errand, but she could not ignore the magical thing she was witnessing in the aisles of the store. A Walmart employee went out of her way to offer help to an elderly blind man as he navigated the confusing and massive aisles of the shopping center. Shaw could not believe it. She had heard about moments like this but knew that this was her chance to captured something heartwarming and good…

Bear, Delaware – A 19-year-old day care worker has been arrested for murder after authorities found surveillance footage of the teen allegedly taking the life of a 4-month-old baby. According to ABC 6, Dejoynay Ferguson was an employee at the Little People Child Development Center in Bear, Delaware. On Thursday, September 5, first responders were called to the center after Ferguson claimed she found a child unresponsive. Ferguson told the owner of the day care, who called 911. As ABC 6 reports, police arrived at the scene around 10:35 a.m. The baby girl was then transported to Christiana Hospital, where she…

A COP from California has been sentenced for having sex with the 16-year-old son of one of her colleagues after the boy’s parents alleged that she “groomed” him. Shauna Bishop, 44, pleaded guilty to having sex with the boy while working as a Sacramento County sheriff’s deputy, and was sentenced Wednesday. Shauna Bishop pleaded guilty to having sex with a 16-year-old boy. She was given one year in county jail, five years of probation and she must register as a sex offender, according to KOVR. She will also have to do 180 days of community service. In June 2019,…

Reese, Cally, and Lara were looking for a new couch for their tiny New York apartment. Unfortunately, most of the couches they found were too big for their living room. Finally, they found a couch just the right size at the Salvation Army. It was old and ugly and had a strange smell, but it was only $20 and it fit so they decided to take it. A couple months later the roommates were sitting on the couch watching a movie together when they felt something strange in the cushions. They looked under the arm of the sofa and found…

Pleasanton, TX | A man of Indian origin recently arrested for sexually molesting a cow on a Texan ranch claims the animal is, in fact, the reincarnation of his deceased wife. Rajiv Chowdhury, 34, was intercepted this week by Atascosa County police after ranch owner Ted Bukowski called police after he found the half-naked man sexually assaulting one of his cows. Bukowski first believed his cattle were being harassed by coyotes until he discovered it was, in fact, a man that was the source of all the disturbance. “He asked me not to shoot. He told me he wouldn’t do…

Houston, TX – Surveillance video captured a mom apparently “playing chicken” with her son moments before she killed the 3-year-old with her SUV. The horrifying incident serves as a reminder to protect children around moving vehicles. The district attorney’s office believes the young mother was needlessly fooling around when she struck her toddler with her right tire, reports KTRK. Authorities originally called the tragedy an “unfortunate accident” until the department obtained video footage. Lexus Stagg, 26, was playing a weird driving game with her son, one where she drove forward and her three children ran out in front of her, reports…

Toledo, OH | An Ohio woman has been arrested after she was caught stealing several iPads at a local Apple store while attempting to hide them inside her genitals. Surveillance cameras clearly showed Irene Lewis, 46, lifting her dress and inserting several iPads between her legs. Security agents at Toledo’s Franklin Park Mall arrived quickly on the scene of the crime after a suspicious employee had them intercept the thief. “I couldn’t believe she had managed to cram six iPads in there. We had to make her spread her legs wide open and check with the flashlight just to be…

Police are looking to identify a woman who they believe abandoned a toddler at a shopping center in Phoenix over the weekend. Fox 10 reports that a Subway fast-food employee contacted police on May 18 about an abandoned child sleeping in a stroller in a parking lot near 19th Avenue and Indian School Road. Phoenix police Sgt. Vince Lewis told CBS 5 : “Someone who was on their way to work, was walking by a pile of really just debris and among that debris was a stroller and inside the stroller was a little moving leg. Thankfully, the witness went…

The chest freezer had been sitting outside in the yard for several days before the children climbed inside. As WGFL reports, on Sunday evening, three children, aged 1, 4, and 6, were playing outside of their home in Live Oak, Florida. The mother of the 4-year-old was watching the trio as they bounced on the trampoline and played with toys in the yard. Two families lived in the home — the mom with her 4-year-old daughter and her friend, and the grandmother (and legal guardian) of the 6-year-old boy and his 1-year-old sister. According to the Tallahassee Democrat, at some…

When Cody Wells was 23, his car went off the road and crashed into a tree, he was killed instantly. At the time of his death, Cody was working for the police department and was engaged to be married. Danielle, Cody’s fiancé, and Cody had a two-year-old son. Danielle would take her son, Braxton, to the cemetery every day to visit Cody’s grave. Eight months after the accident, Braxton, and Danielle were surprised to see a gift sitting near Cody’s grave marker. It was Christmas Day, and the mother and son went to the cemetery just like they always…

Divorce is hard for every family. But the divorce proceedings between David and Sandra Rucki were particularly bad. Their teenage daughters hated seeing their parents constantly fighting and yelling at each other. But the teens were not the only children embroiled in the bitter divorce. The couple had five children that they were fighting over custody for all of them – and then Sandra came forward with an accusation of abuse. Although David denied that he ever hit Sandra, this accusation was too much for the children to bear. They couldn’t stand thinking that behind closed doors, their dad was…

Union City, California | A woman was arrested this morning after stripping almost naked in a Walmart store to test various sex toys in front of dozens of shocked customers. The Union City Police Department received a call from the department store manager around 9:45 this morning, reporting that a customer was behaving indecently. Upon arriving on the site, the officers found 27-year old Laura Martinez lying almost naked on the floor and masturbating with a vibrator. According to Darlene Anderson, an employee who witnessed the incident, Ms. Martinez used at least two dozen different toys before she was arrested.…

A trial was set for a Virginia woman who along with her boyfriend, allegedly sexually abused her 2-year-old son before his murder in January 2019. Kayla Thomas’ three-day trial is scheduled to begin on 20th January 2021. Thomas, 26, is not charged with Steven Meek II’s murder, but she is accused of using her son to create child pornography. Meek was found to have died of head trauma in January 2019. Thomas’s boyfriend, McKenzie Hellman, 26, reportedly called Christiansburg police claiming Meek fell and was unresponsive. However, forensic nurses discovered evidence suggesting Thomas and Hellman were sexually abusing the toddler.…

There’s nothing wrong with letting loose and having a drink every now and then, but downing too many alcoholic beverages is never a good idea. You start to lose control of your inhibitions, so you’ll do a lot of wild, ridiculous things that you would never do when sober. Worse still, you’ll likely regret these things the next day – or you’ll completely forget about them and wonder why everyone seems so angry at you. This funny story illustrates just what might happen if you drink too enthusiastically. The story revolves around Jack. Jack is a married man, but he…

We put a lot of trust in our doctors. We expect them to know what they’re doing, act professionally, and help take care of them. That’s what Las Vegas mom Alex Sims expected when she went into labor, but when her doctor walked in it was clear something was off. Alex’s actual doctor was on vacation, so she was told on-call obstetrician and gynecologist Dr. Frank DeLee would be helping her deliver her baby instead. When he came in the room, though, Alex’s mom, Sheree, said she could smell alcohol on his breath. Then Dr. DeLee started talking about how…

A young child biting a peer is not necessarily an odd occurrence, but in the case of Arizona mom Alice Martin’s daughter, Rosalyn, circumstances were anything but ordinary when she endured bites.The 15-month-old had not one, but 25 bite marks on her back, shoulder and arms upon being picked up from her facility daycare in February of this year. Enrolled at Tucson’s Creative Beginnings Daycare for only five days, Rosalyn suffered brutal bites across the expanse of her back and beyond, and the daycare’s staff failed to inform Alice of the incident. The horror of discovering so many wounds…

She will be forever known as The Girl Who Hid in the Closet, but how Natasha Ryan could let her family think she was dead for five years remains a mystery.. Natasha was 14 when she went missing from Rockhampton in 1998. Her disappearance came around the same time as several girls and young women went missing in the area, leading police to investigate the possibility she had been the victim of a local serial killer. In a twist that even a crime writer wouldn’t have dreamed up, Natasha was later found alive and even appeared at the 2003 trial…

A Mississippi mother is planning her daughter’s funeral after police found the toddler in her grandmother’s oven Monday night. Twenty-month-old, Royalty Floyd, was reportedly stabbed to death and burned in 48-year-old grandma Carolyn Jones’ oven. Jones was arrested and charged with first-degree murder, but her daughter Veronica Jones told WMC5 her mother isn’t a violent person. Veronica is still coming to terms with the fact her own mother may be responsible for the little girl’s death. The grieving mother took to Facebook on Tuesday to speak out following her mom’s arrest. https://www.facebook.com/veronicashante.jones.10/posts/245963792761685 Veronica wrote: I’m being told that my mother…

45-year old Janice Smith was arrested this morning by officers of the Detroit Police Department for allegedly capturing numerous squirrels and training them to attack her former lover. The victim, 51-year-old James Robinson, was presumably attacked by the rodents on more than a dozen occasions over the last month. These attacks caused him many serious injuries, including the loss of two fingers and one testicle, bitten off by his attackers. The poor man had no idea why squirrels kept attacking him until he saw his ex-girlfriend, a former circus animal trainer, cheering the animals during one of the attacks. “She…