Former North Texas Daycare Worker Indicted On 8 Counts Of Child Abuse
Jessica Wiese, 44, worked at Joyous Montessori, which is currently under state review.
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Jessica Wiese, 44, worked at Joyous Montessori, which is currently under state review.
A custody hearing is scheduled for Wednesday morning in Wise County in the case of four young children found caged and living in squalor.
A 31-year-old father of four was arrested after one of is sons was found wandering around outside in the cold.
According to a police affidavit, a Southeast Texas man found naked and stained with blood told officers that he used a hammer to beat his 2-year-old daughter to death.
Police say a Southeast Texas man who used a hammer to kill his 2-year-old daughter is being held on $2 million bond after being arraigned on a capital murder charge.
The baby is fighting for his life at Cook Children's Hospital, where he arrived with hemorrhaging in the brain and bruises on his body.
Gerardo Zavala-Loredo and Monica Yvonne Dominguez are both charged with abusing a human corpse and evidence tampering.
The Wise County Sheriff's Department released a 911 call from the father that led to the discovery of the children and the arrest of the parents.
Kylil Jamall Killian, 20, sexually abused an 11-year-old girl in April of 2018 and even sought help to have her killed.
A sad, graphic look inside the Hell four Wise County siblings were living in when deputies responded to a disturbance call, is revealed in an arrest affidavit released Thursday.
"It can be a part of something that happened, it can be a scar," says Kelly Slaven, Chief Clinical Officer at the Dallas Children's Advocacy Center. "It doesn't have to be the driving force in their life."
Two people remain jailed Wednesday morning after deputies found four malnourished children, two of which were locked in a dog kennel, living in deplorable conditions at a home in Wise County.
Wise County sheriff's deputies found four malnourished children, two of which were locked in dog kennels, during a disturbance call Tuesday.
Dontarious Scott, 22, is charged with sexual abuse of a child and online solicitation of a minor. A mother of one of the alleged victims had let Scott stay at their home.
A Fort Worth woman was convicted of child endangerment in the 2015 death of her 2-year-old son in an attack blamed on her boyfriend.
The trial of a former Texas priest accused of sexually abusing an altar server for years was postponed after Catholic leaders named hundreds of priests credibly accused of child abuse.
The Allen Police Department is currently investigating a sexual abuse of a child offense involving Dontarious Jamal Scott, 22, of Plano.
Catholic leaders in Texas have identified 286 priests and others accused of sexually abusing children, a number that represents one of the largest collection of names to be released since an explosive grand jury report last year in Pennsylvania.
Governor Abbott announced Tuesday $18 million in grant funding will go toward efforts to help victims of human trafficking.
The owners of a Texas daycare say staff members were fired after a video circulated on social media showing a woman pulling a child's hair at the facility.
Former Major League Baseball pitcher and Texas Rangers Hall of Fame member John Wetteland has been arrested and charged with child sex abuse.
Mohamed Toure and Denise Cros-Toure could spend decades in prison.
A former Montessori school worker, Jessica Wiese, has now been charged with physically harming at least eight babies during the past two years.
CBS News has identified hundreds of reports of sexual abuse that occurred at children's camps in Texas and across the United States.
"When the caregivers are coming to pick up packages, they cry and they hug us and they're so grateful," says Becky Aguilar, Director of Community Engagement.
