endangerment

Mother charged with 8-year-old daughter’s death after instructing her to crawl under a train

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FRESNO, CA – Joy Frances Collins, a California mother, has been sentenced to six years in prison following the tragic death of her eight-year-old daughter, Joyanna Harris, in December 2018. Collins was found guilty of child abuse and endangerment after she instructed her children to crawl under an idling cargo train to make it in time for a bus on the other side of the tracks. Unfortunately, when the train began to move, young Joyanna …

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Teachers Arrested After Locking Up Student Alone For So Long That He Ate His Own Feces

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Melody LaPointe, Tarah Tinney and Augusta Costlow were arrested earlier this month in relation to the ordeal of a special needs child, who was put in isolation for hours without access to food. He was alone for so long that he became ravenously hungry. Without any food nearby, the student turned to his own feces in hows that it would sustain him. He drank his urine while he was in this state of extreme neglect. …

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