Crimes Against Children

DIICOT searched Andrew Tate's Bucharest-area properties in August 2024 over alleged trafficking of minors. He and Tristan Tate later faced 59 UK charges and were arrested in Miami in July…

Chrystul Kizer pleaded to second-degree reckless homicide and received 11 years plus five years of supervision. The plea avoided a mandatory life term. She remains at Taycheedah.

A Dothan jury convicted Leroy Thomas Joyner Jr. of transporting a minor across state lines for illegal sexual activity. On August 8, 2024, a federal judge imposed 300 months in…

Louisiana became the first state to let judges order surgical castration for certain sex crimes against children under 13. Gov. Jeff Landry signed Act 651 in June 2024; it took…

Rendell Hoagland pleaded guilty on January 16, 2026, to first-degree murder in the starvation death of his daughter Malinda, 12. Girlfriend Cindy Warren still faces trial; a family civil case…

Louisiana troopers raided the New Orleans archdiocese over a clergy-abuse cover-up. A priest got life and died in jail. Survivors were then handed a $641,000 cap and letters instead of…

Mint Butterfield, 16, child of Slack co-founder Stewart Butterfield, was found uninjured in a Tenderloin van. Two adults were charged with child abduction.

Brie'ann Battle sued Kinder Kids and Artea Kirkland after classroom video showed a worker pinning her 4-year-old and lifting him by the ankles.

Hunter Smiley of Newcastle, Oklahoma, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of his 9-month-old son and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.

Glenn Sullivan Sr. pleaded guilty to raping a 14-year-old and was sentenced to 50 years plus physical castration. The procedure cannot occur until a week before release, when he would…