Teen strangled, slit 9-year-old's throat 1
Dad sets dog on fire for jumping on couch 2
Dad executes son accused of molesting 3
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Creeps, homicide
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 1:04PM

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Alyssa Bustamante reportedly killed the little girl just to see what it felt like
UPDATE: Alyssa Bustamante stabbed the little girl and then slit her throat. See update after the jump...

A Missouri judge ruled that 15-year-old Alyssa Bustamante can be tried as an adult in the murder of 9-year-old Elizabeth Olten. According to police, she killed the little girl just because she "wanted to know what it felt like."

Elizabeth was last seen October 21 as she was leaving a friend's home in St. Martins, Missouri around supper time, just down the street from her own home. She promptly vanished. A massive search was launched to look for her body in the rural, wooded area...

Tags: Missouri
By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, assault, homicide
Friday, Nov. 20 2009 @ 8:09AM
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Pissed that his wife reported him for beating her with a hammer, Charles Avey confessed to strangling his stepson at Wal-Mart
Reader Darwin responds to Charles Avey Strangles Stepson in Wal-Mart Parking Lot to Get Back at His Wife.

"Until you are the abused woman don't judge her. You have no frame of reference. I suspect several of the commentors are right, he probably NEVER hit the child. That is one way abusers can control the victim and make her think her beatings are "her fault" - no one else every gets hurt.

"I suspect the boy was at school when the mother went to the police station and got home without knowing what was going on and this A****** CAME HOME AND PICKED HIM UP (AS IT SAYS IN THE ARTICLE). The son and the mother probably never imagined such a thing could happen."




By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Sex crimes, bizarre, homicide
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 2:17PM
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Jamar Jr. was forced to strip naked at gunpoint, then marched to a vacant lot and executed
When Lazette Cherry learned that her 15-year-old son may have improperly touched his 3-year-old sister, she called ex-husband Jamar Pinkney Sr. to let him know. But dad went ballistic.

He arrived at Lazette's Highland Park, Michigan home and forced 15-year-old Jamar Jr. to strip naked. Then he marched the boy to a vacant lot and forced him to kneel. Mom and Jr. pleaded for him not to shoot. "He got on his knees and begged, `No, Daddy, No,' and he pulled the trigger," Lazette says. Jamar Jr. was dead, shot in the head.

Lazette apparently didn't know her ex would react so violently when she called to let him know about the apparent molestation. Though there's no details on what Jamar Jr. was accused of doing, Lazette seems to imply that it was improper touching, not rape. But she felt a duty to let dad know.
"This isn't something you sweep under the rug," she says...

Tags: Michigan
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 1:32PM

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"Drop the bunny ears, girlie, or you'll be flopping on the ground like a mackerel."
UPDATE: Officer Dustin Bradshaw has been suspended for seven days, but not for the reason you'd think. See update after the jump...

Earlier this week, we told you about the 73-year-old grandma who was caught on tape being tasered twice during a traffic stop. Now it seems an Arkansas officer has tasered a 10-year-old girl. Our question: Where the hell are they getting these cops?

Police in Ozark, Arkansas say officer Dustin Bradshaw was called to a home by a mother who couldn't get her 10-year-old daughter to shower before going to bed. He found the girl on the floor screaming and crying. Why police were called to diffuse a little girl's fit, we don't know. But something tells us we're not dealing with All-American Mom here.

What we do know is that the girl refused to follow her mom's orders, which little girls tend to do when throwing fits. So mom told Bradshaw to taser her ass...

Tags: Arkansas
Thursday, Nov. 19 2009 @ 9:00AM
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Burrell Mohler Jr. is now accused of forcing his three daughters to help kill a man
Reader CMM responds to Burrell Mohler Sr. and His 4 Sons Accused of Serial Child Rape, Forcing Sex With Dog.

"The way the stories are building and becoming more outrageous (and beginning from 'recovered memories') reminds me of the McMartin Daycare cases from the late 1980s where kids started with accusations of molestation and ended up with stories of satanic cults, animal and dog sacrifice and other craziness...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, assault, homicide
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 5:04PM
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His wife went to police for beating her with a hammer, so Charles Avey took revenge by killing her son
Sr. was pissed. His wife claimed he beat her with a hammer the previous week. Now her mother had picked her up and drove her to the police station to file a report.

The Grafton, Wisconsin man kept trying to text her, but she wouldn't respond. So he drove around looking for her, only to find his mother-in-law's car at the police station. Avey went home, picked up his 14-year-old stepson, Cody A. Reetz, and drove to a nearby Wal-Mart.

As they sat in the parking lot, Avey grew increasingly pissed that his wife wasn't calling him back. So he decided to take it out on Cody. He used one necktie to tie his arm to a seat in his minivan. Then he used another to strangle Cody to death...

Tags: Wisconsin
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 1:28PM

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Patriarch and pervert Burrell Mohler Sr. apparently introduced his four boys to pedophilia
UPDATE: Detectives find a load of child and incest porn at Burrell Mohler Sr.'s home. See update after the jump...

Beginning in 1988, police believe 77-year-old Burrell Edward Mohler Sr. started raping the young boys and girls in his extended family. Over time, it seems he also introduced his four sons to pedophilia, and they forced the kids to even have sex with dogs.

All all five men are now charged with raping at least five children under the age of 12. Police are searching property outside Bates City, Missouri, looking for notes the victims buried in glass jars over the years -- and also searching for bodies...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, homicide
Sunday, Nov. 15 2009 @ 6:58AM
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Christian high school student Connor Maxwell, her mother and brother were all murdered by their developer dad
Reader "What???" responds to William Maxwell Jr. Home: Four People Shot to Death in Upscale Fayetteville. She says wealthy people can't handle trouble:

"What this "man" did is no different than what the FT Hood sniper did. Killing innocents regardless if they are strangers or family is wrong, wrong, wrong!! The FT Hood sniper was mentally ill as well so should it be o.k.? ...

By Pete Kotz in Child Abuse, Sex crimes, bizarre
Saturday, Nov. 14 2009 @ 7:03AM
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Burrell Mohler Sr. and his four sons are accused of raping young family members, even forcing them to have sex with a German shepherd
Reader Rachel responds to Burrell Mohler Sr. and His 4 Sons Accused of Serial Child Rape, Forcing Sex with Dog. She suspects there's a long back story to this case:

"I agree with Rachel. (maybe it's because we share a name) The jars are really strange and creepy. The jars and weddings are sort of like "gentleman rapist" type things--in this case gentleman incest rapists.

"And, for a whole family of men to do this to multiple kids...it's almost like they thought they had to (like a religious obligation--I'm not blaming religion, just saying they may have viewed it as some sort of obligation to justify it to themselves) and they felt bad and wanted to help the kids get through it...

Friday, Nov. 13 2009 @ 12:46PM
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He's accused of violently raping his girlfriend, then taking off with daughter Hailey Traynham in a stolen truck
UPDATE: In a very cool ending, a hunter talks a father into turning himself in for raping woman, kidnapping daughter. See update after the jump...

Gary Traynham Jr., and his girlfriend had been having troubles lately. They'd been estranged for two weeks, and Traynham was pinched for writing a bad check on October 26. So when he showed up drunk at the unnamed girlfriend's apartment yesterday, it was bound to turn out bad...


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