September 29th, 2009 by Lianne

Emily and Jane Hopkins were both twins, born in US in a house overlooking the Arkansis river.

Though both bright twins, enjoying spells at Harvard and national brokerages, close relatives of the twins noticed mental illness in the two. Whilst Jean was pregnant, she attempted to kill her two young sons with a prescriptive drug overdose, whilst Emily managed to fatally stab her two children. Jean was let off by courts by reason of insanity of attempted capital murder.

There are several other shocking child abuse murders that involve identical twins in the US.

September 26th, 2009 by Lianne

Jenna Baldwin, a fifteen year old student from Abersychan, Wales, went missing as she feared life at her new school. At her old school, she had several new friends but was dreading a move to a new school.

Jenna was believed to have been bullied at her old school and her parents would also abuse her, though not physically. Now found, Jenna has been housed with new parents and is also enjoying life at her new school, whilst also keeping contact with those from her old school. The family still lives in Wales, even after the ongoings.

September 25th, 2009 by Lianne

Danielle Reid met her end at the tender age of five when her mother’s bf, Lee Gaytor beat her to death. This involved repeatedly striking the her on the head, body and throwing her down the stairs.

Danielle died the next day, however, this wasn’t to be the end of her trauma. Her body was packed into a suitcase, weighed down by bricks and her own mother, Tracey Reid along with Gaytor’s brother, took the poor girl’s  body and walked for three miles and cast it, along with the suitcase, into the river. They even walked through Inverness to dump it into a canal.

September 24th, 2009 by Lianne

Jacquez Robidoux, a member of an obscure cult and also father to a child has recently been trialled in court over the death of his infant son.

Robidoux believed that after his  sister’s apparent and bizarre religious premonition/vision, which involved his son’s diet, he’d take it upon himself to lessen the diet of his son. Robidoux believed he was following God’s will, and this diet turned into no solid food at all; which lasted around two weeks.

Starving the child for such a period of time ended up as the death of the child and courts believe this murder compared to a religious vision.

September 23rd, 2009 by Lianne

As a young boy, David suffered several horrors of child abuse in his home in California.

His abuse ranged from beatings, physical torture, mental abuse and even near starvation. Upon his rescue, he was labelled as one of the worst cases seen in the state. The poor boy didn’t call home ‘home’, but instead referred to it as simply ‘it’.

He didn’t get much physical or mental nourishment in his young life, though now he has been rescued and since re-homed. His parents were charged with indecent harm, child abuse and neglect. There are cases like this in California every day!

September 23rd, 2009 by Lianne

In June 2008, a mother in North Texas had her children taken away due to a case of munchausen syndrome by proxy. This syndrome by proxy is where a individual make sup symptoms or signs so it appears that their child is sick.

This can also involve a parent causing injury to a child which would be similar to a symptom or sign of a disease. This can include sickness, diarrhoea and bodily wounds. In this case, this symptom by proxy was believed to be occurring so the child was monitored for a while until this theory could be found to be true.

September 22nd, 2009 by Lianne

In 2007 a mother of a baby boy was wrongly accused of causing her child harm and her son was taken away because of the apparent child abuse.

In a response to this, the mother decided to have an abortion as she wouldn’t be able to cope if a second child was taken away from the family. It was assumed that because the baby had an injury to the brain, it should be taken away, however, it was later revealed that the child instead had the injury during birth.

The child was returned to its mother after a year of investigation.

September 22nd, 2009 by Lianne

For many years there have been reported cases of child abuse across the world.

There is no known reason why people feel the need to abuse children, though the general consensus is that individual’s carrying out this sadistic act are either perverted  or see it as a ‘sense of power’. Abuse doesn’t just mean physical (as in attacks or sexual-related attacks) abuse, but emotional also. If found guilty of child abuse, one will usually face imprisonment, fixed fine and a ban from entering a job at a nursery.

Several agencies are still battling this unfortunate topic including the NSPCC.

September 21st, 2009 by Lianne

In February 2009 in Dallas, Texas, it was found out a mother of a nine year old neglected her child’s illness and her child later died.

The child suffered with diabetes and didn’t receive the required injections which are vital when suffering from certain types of the disease. The mother was later charged with a failure to preventing the death of her child which could have been achieved by dealing with the relevant doses the child needed.

Neglect is a type of child abuse and is treated with seriousness as children need nourishment and comfort, as well as protection.

September 21st, 2009 by Lianne

In 2007, a four year old girl from Maida Vale, London, was severely abused by her parents: Kimberley Harte and Samuel Duncan.

This abuse included boiling water being drained over her, her hair being ripped out, beatings, forced to eat her own faeces and forced to take cold baths. This could all have been prevented if the social services decided against sending her back to her parents, which her foster parents were convinced would be a bad idea. Secondly, social working staff accepted the injuries were simply accidents and when she was ‘missing’ they accepted the idea that she was out with her father.