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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…

Lashawnda Walters, 51, of Mason, Ohio, took an indefinite 7-to-10.5-year sentence on May 2, 2024, after pleading guilty to scalding her 2-year-old granddaughter and deleting the cameras that recorded it.

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…

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.

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…

Former Boulder Swimming coach Jon Beber was convicted of sexually abusing three teenage athletes. A judge sentenced him to 42 years to life in July 2024. He is not eligible…

Sarah Sands fatally stabbed convicted pedophile Michael Pleasted in Canning Town after he abused her son and other local boys. She was convicted of manslaughter. The Court of Appeal raised…