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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - A Kansas City couple’s broad sense of discipline may more accurately be called “misguided vengeance.”

Timothy A. Phillips and Lacey A. Chaney locked girl basement

30-year-old Timothy Phillips and his 27-year-old live-in girlfriend Lacey Chaney have been charged with child endangerment and child restraint after Phillips’ 9-year-old daughter outed them for locking her in the basement.

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(WIDK By Jane Rouen) - In Ghizou province in China, an 11-year old girl was saved after six years of brutal abuse and torture. 

girl's mouth sewn shut

The father of Xiao Li, an 11-year old Chinese girl, was arrested for child abuse that included dipping the girl in boiling water, sewing her mouth closed with a fishing line, hanging her upside down, beating her with sticks, and forcing her to kneel on glass.

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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - Zip-ties are usually used to bind wires together, not a toddler’s limbs.

Gerald Swinehart and Marlaine Coffey zip tied 4 year old child to gate

A North Carolina couple is being arraigned after being accused of physically abusing their four-year-old daughter.

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(WIDK By Brittany Hahn) – Excessive whining is never an excuse to kill your child. 

Chelsea Huggett killed baby daughter

Florida mom Chelsea Hugget, 21, is behind bars after murdering her 2-year-old Aliyah Marie Branum at home; Hugget says the toddler wouldn’t stop whining. 

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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - Parents forgive women who was accused of murdering their baby.

Todd and Deniele VanLeeuwen forgive babysitter killing baby

The parents of a 17-month-old girl who was allegedly killed by her babysitter four years ago have broken their silence to reveal they have forgiven the woman accused of the murder.

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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) -  A mother was charged in the fire deaths of her four children. 

My'asia and Ky'nasia Hawkins mother killed 4 children mobile home fire

Hope Kaneshia Hawkins, 21, the mother of four children who died in a mobile home fire in Hartsville, has been charged with four counts of unlawful neglect of a child and four counts of homicide by child abuse.

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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - Justice is finally served for a murdered baby after half a century.

Ruby C. Klokow killed baby 56 years ago

76-year-old Ruby Klokow of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, has pleaded no contest to charges that she killed her infant daughter fifty-six years ago.

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(WIDK By Alex Dorian) – A disabled couple committed an unspeakable act.

Hector Rene Cupich-Quinones deaf parents killed crying baby

Hector Rene Cupich-Quinones, 35, and Maria Guadalupe Zuniga, 37, a deaf couple from Richardson, TX, battered their 5-month-old daughter to death because she wouldn’t stop crying.

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(WIDK By Lauren Keough) - A father violently disciplined his son. 

Marty Andrews angry father bit and choked son fence

Marty Andrews was recently charged in Houston, Texas with felony injury to his ten-year-old son after he allegedly bit, choked, and hung the boy from a fence to “teach him a lesson.”

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(WIDK By Alex Dorian) – The perpetrator’s uncle told reporters that she had always been “nonchalant” when it came to caring for her son.

Ke'Andre Coleman tortured to death by mother

Mikkia Shardae Lewis and Joe Genard McCaskell, from South Daytona, FL, were taken into custody on aggravated child abuse charges last week, after officials found Lewis’ 4-year-old son, Ke’Andre Coleman, dead in her apartment.

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(WIDK By Alex Dorian) – The sheer logic behind this scheme is unbelievable.

Chad M. Holm spiked children's cookies with meth

Chad M. Holm, a 37-year-old man from Des Moines, WA, was accused of lacing his children’s cookies with methamphetamine in an attempt to sabotage his ex-wife’s efforts to gain custody.

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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - The business of child trafficking is alive and well in places like India.

grandfather told daughter three-day-old baby died in order to sell child

The grandfather of a 3-day-old baby has been arrested for selling the baby to another person.

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(WIDK By Remus Lee) - A father practicing military discipline went too far and is paying the price.

Aaron Ramsey killed son starved t odeath dumped corpse in woods

35-year-old Texan father Aaron Ramsey has been sentenced for his role in the death of his 10-year-old son Johnathan Ramsey.

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