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WOODSTOCK, ONT.— A controversial publication ban in the case of a woman charged in the death of eight-year-old Tori Stafford has been extended. Justice Dougald McDermid heard arguments to vary the ban Tuesday and today […] […]

CHICOPEE, Mass. – Authorities say a Massachusetts man offered to give his 3-month-old daughter to a maintenance man outside a gas station convenience store in exchange for a pair of beers. Chicopee police say 24-year-old […] […]

A woman was arrested yesterday after allegedly leaving her five-year-old son and three-week-old baby asleep in a car while she drank for more than four hours at a house down the road. The 26-year-old mother […] […]

A SHOCKING study has revealed over 250 children are living in abject poverty in the West Midlands with many of their mothers forced in to prostitution on the streets of Birmingham in order to survive. […] […]

A MOTHER has appeared in court charged with murdering her 11-year-old son after she was found holding the dead boy’s hand in a hotel room. Yvonne Freaney, of Penarth, near Cardiff, was arrested after her […] […]

MELBOURNE – Melbourne woman Donna Fitchett has been found guilty of killing her two sons. Ms Fitchett, 51, had pleaded not guilty to murdering Thomas, 11, and Matthew, nine, by drugging and then strangling or […] […]

A TODDLER found wandering alone beside a western Sydney road has not been claimed by his parents or carers, five hours after he was discovered. The boy, aged about three, was noticed by two off-duty […] […]

AN American woman will spend life in prison for killing a pregnant teenager she lured to her apartment, drugging her and cutting the child from the womb before trying to pass off the baby as […] […]

Two social workers at the centre of the Baby Peter case are to be charged with misconduct, it has been announced. A disciplinary hearing will be held for Maria Ward, a social worker allocated to […] […]

Serious cases of abuse against babies have leapt by two-thirds in just two years, according to official figures. The Ministry of Health revealed 74 children aged under one year were admitted to hospital after violent […] […]