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(WIDK by Colleen Bjornholm) Talk about a horrible birthday surprise.

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Katherina Allen, 42, and her two daughters, Kerri and Kayla were celebrating Kerri’s 10th birthday at a crowded Cracker Barrel restaurant in Ohio Thursday night when her estranged husband shot her and the birthday girl dead while leaving Kayla in critical condition before being fatally shot by police.

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(WIDK By Mike Finiello) - While a mother and her boyfriend await court, a father struggles to understand why what happened to his son could not have been prevented.

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Chealse Taylor, 20, and her ex-boy friend Ryan Worsaw, 29, are being charged with neglect of a dependent resulting in death when Taylor’s one year old son , Jayden Noel, was found dead  as result of repeated blunt force trauma to the head.

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(WIDK by Nora Poggi)One mother and her boyfriend get arrested for molesting her two daughters.

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Unnamed mother, 31, and her boyfriend, 29, were arrested in Florida after the woman’s two daughters were found in filthy rooms, a 7-year old girl with a broken ankle that had not been treated, using a cane to walk, and a 4-year old with a learning disability who had been molested by her mom’s boyfriend.

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A man kills his infant son by shaking him in frustration.

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Jacob David Hartley, 20, has been accused of killing Colton, his 3-week-old son, because the infant was disturbing him by crying during a video game session in Lakeland, Florida.  Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Olivia Roat) - The tragic death of a girl diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy was due to severe neglect and malnutrition on the part of her mother and other caregivers.

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Angela Norman, 42, of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter on Friday after her daughter, Makayla, died in March 2011 from nutritional and medical neglect.

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A mother murders her disabled daughter by feeding her M&M’s.

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Veronica Cirella, 31, has been accused of killing her daughter after feeding Julie, her eight-year-old disabled daughter who suffered from a peanut allergy, M&M’s with traces of peanuts in Long Island, New York in 2011.  Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Mike Finiello) - Two Tulsa women were charged on Monday with child neglect in connection to the death of a battered toddler.

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Micca Shoate and Jazmin William , both 22,  were found with the severely beaten body of nineteen month old Zamontay Green in the backseat of their car during a March 25th pull over.

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(WIDK By Nick Pollack) - Some believe parents should require a license before they can have kids.

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Johnathan Ramsey, an 11-year-old boy from Dallas Texas, ate his own feces before he was starved to death by his parents after they locked him inside his bedroom.

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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) – A Winter Haven father was arrested for severe child abuse.

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Christopher Scott Ryon, 27, beat his 3-month-old daughter he called ‘It’ to death because the baby’s crying was preventing him for taking a nap. Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) - A devastating tragedy has hit the same family twice. 

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Christian Baucom, 6, drowned in a pond by his home, this occurred seven months after his brother Jason drowned in a different pond. Click to read more…

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A young boy dies after shooting himself and his mother with father’s gun.

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Jamal A. Woolford Jr, a four-year-old boy, is dead after accidentally shooting himself and wounded his mother with his father’s handgun in Herbon, Maryland. Click to read more…

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(WIDK by Meggan Gittens)A Dallas baby is slowing recovering after being revived from a medically-induced coma after she was attacked by her mother.

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Danielle Busby called 911 on monday to report that she had attacked her 1-year-old daughter Mariah. Cops arrive on the scene to find Busby holding baby Mariah, soaked in blood in her mothers arms, with stab wounds on her neck.

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(WIDK by Mike Finiello) - An Indiana community is left devastated following a mother’s recent murder-suicide.

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Kelli Sly, 23,  drugged her toddler son, slashed his wrists, then left her apartment and drove her car into a bridge support killing herself. Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Mike McCurdy) - A 2-month old baby died from severe injury to her skull from her father.

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Steven Cantrell, 21, was arrested for the murder of his daughter, 2-month old, Jada Cantrell who suffered multiple skull fractures when she was left alone with him in his southwest Florida home Friday.

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) - A toddler is taken off life support after a tragic fall into a washing machine.

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Oliver Hebb, an eighteen month old boy, passed away after falling into a full washing machine at his Hillsborough, Oregon home.  Click to read more…

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(WIDK by Patrick Heywood) – A toddler was found high on drugs in the backseat of his mother’s car. 

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A two-year old boy was found high on heroin in the backseat of his mother’s car in Everett, Washington on Thursday. Click to read more…

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(WIDK By Andrew Kepshire) - It appears food for your child is a luxury not all get.

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Tania Coleman, 21, of Erie, PA was convicted of first-degree murder after starving her 14-month-old child to death, then hiding her in a suitcase.

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(WIDK By Lukasz Bielawski) - A young Philadelphia boy was beaten and starved to death by his parents.

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Khalil Wimes, 6, passed away on Monday weighing less than 30 pounds, the boy had bruises, scars, and cuts all over his body, which were inflicted by his parents, Tina Wimes, 44, and Floyd Wimes, 48 after a judge ruled for his parents to be granted custody of the son once again. Click to read more…

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