A U.S. Marine Corps staff sergeant and his wife have been arrested and charged after their two-year-old daughter was killed by a heavy suitcase meant to keep her inside of her playpen.

An Illinois daycare employee has been charged with child endangerment for allegedly placing a 4-year-old boy in a freezing alley and a trash can as punishment.

An Ohio woman has been arrested after she allegedly left her two young children by themselves in a car as temperatures outside dropped, officials say.

Law enforcement located and arrested a Texas woman who allegedly hit a young girl walking to school with her car and then drove away.

A Texas woman has been arrested and taken into custody after she reportedly disciplined a little girl by duct-taping the child's mouth shut and locking her into a dog cage under her Christmas tree.

A child care center in Utah will be forced to cease operations after a child's toes were severed by a lawnmower, require emergency surgery.

A young Texas mother has finally been brought into custody after she left her infant child at home unsupervised, while she went on a date 150 miles away.

An Indiana woman loudly yelled for her dog to "sic" police officers while she was actively being arrested for being intoxicated behind the wheel, officials say.

An 11-year-old girl in Boulder, Colorado, escaped a kidnapping attempt by hitting her assailant with a tree branch in self-defense, according to law enforcement.

A Texas mother was arrested after attempting to enlist the help of social media in order to sell her newborn baby "to the highest bidder", officials say.

A young Indiana woman has been charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death following the death of her 1-year-old foster daughter, who drowned in a bathtub.

A Texas middle school teacher smiled in her mug shot after being arrested for engaging in a sexual relationship with one of her former students, police say.

A South Carolina woman has been charged with unlawful conduct towards a child after a diabetic teen in her care drank a milkshake and then died, officials say.

Girls from a Texas middle school cheerleading squad have sustained first and second degree burns after allegedly being punished by their coach for performing a "disrespectful" routine.

Two men were stopped on a Missouri highway hauling a moving truck with several young children in the poorly-ventilated back compartment.

A young couple allegedly tried to sell their sick 2-month old child for beer and $1,000 because "it was not working, having three dogs and a baby."

A Floridian youth basketball coach has been arrested and taken into custody after reportedly abusing children who he then tried to buy from parents.

Two parents were arrested and charged in Ohio on Thursday after their child was discovered to have been hog-tied in a hotel room in order to prevent them from getting candy.

A New Jersey man was arrested and charged with murder on Thursday after he reportedly killed one of his girlfriend's twin daughters, and hid her death and body for years from authorities and family members.

A 1- year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed by her 8-year-old brother who also injured another 2-year-old sibling in a motel room in Pensacola, Florida on Sunday.

Third-graders in a Californian elementary school were hospitalized on Thursday after they accidentally ingested cannabis gummies given to them by a friend.

Hadley Palmer, a 53-year-old millionaire socialite, pleaded guilty to voyeurism and child endangerment after videos were found where she filmed minors in compromising situations.

A nomadic 26-year-old mother and a 40-year-old father have been arrested after viciously abusing their 9-month-old son to death in an RV parked outside of a beaver-themed convenience store in Middle Georgia, the Warner Robins Police Department (WRPD) said on Friday.

Students and people from the community have come together to show support for the Texas Mom as more colorful signs and posters continue to gather up outside her home.

An Inkster, Michigan woman has been arraigned on child abuse and intent to murder raps after allegedly slitting her children’s throats with a knife in a gruesome New Year’s Day attack.

A Fayetteville father faces a charge of second-degree murder following the death of his four-week-old daughter on Aug. 29 while the infant was left in his care.

Natsuki Nakashima has been arrested in Kimotsuki, Japan on Wednesday for the alleged child abuse of his one-month-old daughter Kokona, whom he reportedly punched to death.

A New Hampshire mother reportedly texted her friend a rant, comparing her five-year-old son to prolific serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer four months before the young boy's body was found in the woods.

A New Jersey mother has been arrested last week amid allegations she subjected her 14-year-old daughter to years of recurring abuse. The revelations came after the child ran away from home.

Gabriela Casarez, a foster mother in Los Angeles, has been arrested on Friday for child abuse and assault after beating her foster child so much that he went into a coma.