DERRY - The mother of murder victim Preston Connor Edmunds, 6, who died with his father of carbon monoxide poisoning last week, said she knew her ex-husband "wasn't well," but he had agreed to changes in the parenting plan just before their deaths. "I knew he wasn't well. I tried to help him. I offered to take Preston so that he could go and get help and he refused," Carin Edmunds said … [Read more...]

Women who become pregnant in Maryland as a result of sexual assault can now sue to terminate the parental rights of their attackers, under a law approved this month in the legislature after nine failed attempts. “This is an important day for the state of Maryland,” said Gov. Larry Hogan (R), who signed the emergency bill Tuesday surrounded by a host of advocates and female … [Read more...]

After a 61-year-old Iowa man admitted in open court to sexually abusing his granddaughter, the victim’s mother is asking why prosecutors are recommending he be given probation instead of prison time. “What’s five years’ probation?” asked Kasey Hilpipre, the mother of the victim, according to WHO TV. “Is he gonna pick her up again and take her into the woods again and she may not come out? … [Read more...]

There is way too much killing in America – murders, accidental shootings, executions, deadly domestic abuse and despondent people who kill themselves. Then there is filicide. That’s when parents kill their own child. We would like to think this sort of heinous crime doesn’t happen, but it happens way too often. A study published in the journal Forensic Science International combed through more … [Read more...]

California must consider earlier parole for potentially thousands of sex offenders, maybe even those convicted of pimping children, a state judge said Friday. Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Allen Sumner preliminarily ordered prison officials to rewrite part of the regulations for Proposition 57. The 2016 ballot measure allows consideration of earlier parole for most state … [Read more...]