UNION, Mo. - The woman who kidnapped a newborn girl two years ago was sentenced to 30 years in prison today for her crimes as the judge ignored her family's pleas for mercy.
In a packed courtroom in Franklin County, Shannon Torrez, 38, got the sentence recommended by prosecutors for the September 2006 kidnapping of Abby, the one-week-old daughter of Stephenie Ochsenbine.
Torrez had showed up at the woman's rural home asking to use the phone and bathroom.
She pointed a pistol at Ochsenbine, stabbed her and tied up her and her one-year-old son. Torrez then took seven-day-old baby Abby. Police tracked down Torrez five days later. Abby was recovered alive and well. - Read the entire article here
HEMET - A Hemet woman is behind bars Saturday in Texas, awaiting extradition back to California on charges of beating and robbing her 94-year-old grandmother in Hemet, authorities said.
April Courtney, 34, is accused of striking her 94-year-old grandmother repeatedly with a metal cane on Sept. 3 before she fled to Texas, according to Hemet police Detective Jeff Dill. - Read the entire article here
TOMS RIVER — A 44-year-old woman who tried to make her sister and brother-in-law sick with rodent poison because they wouldn't let her see her dog was sentenced to three years' probation this morning.
Dana Simmons was given credit for the 534 days she has served in the Ocean County Jail since she was charged with the crime in November 2006. - Read the entire article here
NEW YORK - In between car pools and karate classes, Nassau prosecutors say one Syosset mother was doing unspeakable things to her three children.
The 53-year-old woman, whose trial on child molestation charges began Friday in Nassau County Court, was molesting her youngest daughter with a Barbie doll, and forcing her older children to play tug-of-war naked and then have oral sex while she watched, prosecutors said. Newsday is not naming the woman to protect her children's identities.
"What [the woman] pretended to be at PTA meetings and at her daughter's cheerleading practice was not the same person that her children knew her to be," prosecutor Stephen Antignani told jurors. - Read the entire article here
GREEN BAY — A 33-year-old Ashwaubenon woman enrolled at Ashwaubenon High School posing as her 15-year-old daughter, authorities said today. “She made at least the first day at school,” Crocker said. “She was caught because she was truant.” The woman’s daughter lives out of state, authorities said.
Ashwaubenon investigators plan to refer the woman to prosecutors and recommend charges of identity theft, forgery, criminal trespassing and disorderly conduct. The woman was arrested by Green Bay police Sept. 3 and booked into the Brown County Jail last week on an unrelated misdemeanor theft by misrepresentation charge. The details of that case were not available late today. - Read the entire article here
Salt Lake, UT - A 17-year-old mother was charged as an adult Thursday for allegedly murdering her infant son last month by breaking his back. Adrianna Lucero, who will be 18 in December, was charged in 3rd District Court with first-degree felony murder in the death of her 2-year-old son Alejandro G. Lucero, who died Aug. 24.
“The mechanism of the spinal fracture was not likely from a stomp or blow to the child's back, but was more likely a severe, bending force which bent A.L.'s lumbar spine backward and that would have taken some time to inflict, during which A.L. would have been screaming the entire time,” charging documents stated. - Read the entire article here
KANSAS CITY, MO. -- A Kansas City, Missouri, woman has been charged with child abuse after allegedly burning her children, police said on Saturday.
Latasha Lambert, 23, faces two counts of child abuse after Kansas City police responded to Children's Mercy Hospital to check out injuries to two children, ages 1 and 2. According to police, Lambert allegedly burned the children with an iron and lit cigarettes. - Read the entire article here
A young clothing store assistant has been charged with poisoning her manager with eucalyptus oil in a bizarre case of apparent workplace jealousy.
The manager, Iraqi immigrant Judy Siddawi, 27, had been running an Auckland menswear store for a couple of months when her open energy drink was allegedly poisoned by her 21-year-old assistant manager.
The two have been embroiled in conflict because Siddawi was promoted over the assistant manager, who had been with the national menswear chain for a number of years. - Read the entire article here
The search for 2-year-old James Many White Horses came to the worst possible ending Friday when police found the missing toddler dead in the trunk of a car — killed, they allege, by his mother.
Summer Many White Horses, 31, was arrested Friday afternoon on suspicion of deliberate homicide, tampering with evidence and obstructing a peace officer. She is being held at the Cascade County Detention Center.
James Many White Horses was last seen with his noncustodial mother on July 21, according to a missing-persons alert issued Thursday by the Montana Department of Justice. - Read the entire article here
A Smithfield woman was sentenced Friday to more than 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to shooting her boyfriend to death two years ago.
Tiffany Ann Bassett pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the July 18, 2006, death of Donald "Keith" West, who was found dead in the bedroom of the home they shared. She was sentenced to 221 to 275 months in prison. - Read the entire article here
A woman was arrested Saturday on charges she stabbed her ex-boyfriend in the leg with a kitchen knife, Richland County sheriff’s deputies said. Whitney D. Howard, 20, is charged with aggravated assault, a sheriff’s department news release said. - Read the entire article here
PITTSBURGH—A Pittsburgh woman is guilty of stabbing her boyfriend to death during an argument over a cold, uneaten bagel. Allegheny County Judge John Zottola convicted 23-year-old Patrice Rogers of voluntary manslaughter in the Feb. 25 killing of her live-in boyfriend, 30-year-old Geno Crenshaw. - Read the entire article here
A Bolingbrook elementary school nurse was arrested Thursday afternoon and charged with three counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse for allegedly having sexual relations with three teen boys in 2006, officials said.
Laura J. Obzera, 49, works for Valley View Community School District 365U in Bolingbrook, police said. She is listed as a health assistant at Wood View Elementary School in Bolingbrook on the school's Web site. - Read the entire article here
GUELPH, Ont. — A conviction on a lesser charge of infanticide for a 27-year-old Guelph, Ont. woman who admitted killing her two infant sons sparked outrage from some of those gathered in a packed, emotionally-charged courtroom.
Ontario Superior Court Justice Cas Herold rendered the verdict on Thursday against the woman who admitted killing her seven-week-old son in 1998 and her nine-week-old son in 2002. - Read the entire article here
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY.com) - A Virginia Beach woman has been charged with Fraud and Felony Child Neglect. Police say she tried to get out of paying her tab at a restaurant. Investigators say the woman also left her 2-year-old child alone at home for several hours.
Police became concerned that no one was watching the child and went to Chaney's home in the 2100 blk of Waterfront Drive. They found the front door unlocked and discovered the child inside alone. Police determined the child had been home alone since at least 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night through 2:30 a.m. Wednesday morning. - Read the entire article here
A Harvey woman has been arrested for the murder of a five-month-old baby by Jefferson police, admitting that she put the child in a clothes dryer after the child frustrated her, police said.
During the investigation, police said, that Smith continued to reiterate this story to investigators before admitting to police that the child received the burns after she had put him in a clothes dryer after becoming frustrated with the infant.
After putting the child in the dryer, police said, Smith admitted turning it on and leaving the room. When she returned to check on the child, Andre was not breathing. - Read the entire article here
Jackson County, WI - A Humbird woman was charged in Jackson County Circuit Court last week after allegedly taking almost $14,500 from her mother-in-law. Debbie R. Seelow, 50, was charged with identity theft for financial gain and misdemeanor theft. - Read the entire article here
STAUNTON — Police arrested a Staunton woman Monday who is suspected of trying to extort $14,000 from another woman, according to the Staunton Police Department.
Police said the investigation began in mid-July when the victim, a 37-year-old Staunton woman, received two phone calls demanding she pay $14,000 or her husband would receive a letter “that would ruin her life,” according to Officer Lisa Klein, a spokeswoman for the Staunton Police Department. The victim reported the incident to police July 15. - Read the entire article here
Canada - Okotoks RCMP have charged a woman in connection with an assault along a walking path last month. 55-year-old Darline Konta of Okotoks has been charged with assault causing bodily harm. Just before six in the evening on August 28th a woman was assaulted while out for a walk with her dog. It happened in the area behind Cameron Crossing School, on South Railway Street. The assailant was carrying a large black flashlight. - Read the entire article here
LOGAN, Utah (AP) - A Logan woman has been charged with bigamy, after police found she had married five times, but only once was divorced.
Nichole Christine Greenlee made an initial appearance in 1st District Court on Monday. She's charged with one third-degree felony of bigamy and with misdemeanor making a false statement. The charges stem from Greenlee's two most recent marriages.
County records obtained by the Herald Journal show four marriage licenses on file for the 32-year-old Greenlee. On each license application Greenlee used her maiden name, Fasick, and claims it is her "first" marriage. - Read the entire article here
Chicago - A south suburban woman was ordered held on $250,000 bond Friday after being charged with the sexual abuse of her friend's 15-year-old daughter.
At the Bridgeview Courthouse, Judge John Hynes set the bond for Valencia Sephus, 30, of the 15800 block of Loomis Ave. in Harvey, who is charged with one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, according to Cook County State's Attorney's office spokeswoman Tandra Simonton. Sephus evaded police after they started investigating in June. They recently found her and took her into custody Thursday, police said. - Read the entire article here
PASADENA, Texas — Two teenage girls are accused of stabbing a 75-year-old man to death in a robbery that netted them just $15, and police say the mother of one of the teens helped put them up to it.
Dannette R. Gillespie, 38, gave knives to her 15-year-old daughter and Vanessa Anne Ocampo, 19, then waited in the back seat of their car while the teens robbed and killed Eugene Palma, according to a probable cause warrant.
Gillespie's daughter and Ocampo ran to Palma's garage and stabbed him several times. They went through Palma's pockets and car in search of money and Ocampo took $15, according to the document. Gillespie allegedly waited in the back seat of the car for them and got rid of the knives. A palm print on the driver's side door of Palma's car led police to the women, authorities said. - Read the article here
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