A Staten Island mother was arrested for burning her 11-year-old son with a red-hot butter knife to "teach him a lesson," law enforcement sources said.
Mervat Elhanafy, 39, heated the dull blade on a stove before scorching her son, Huesaen Ahmed, on his legs and left arm at their Fresh Kills home about 12 p.m. Tuesday, court papers show.
A Colorado mom is in hot water with cops after leaving her toddler in a hot car – while she went to a tanning bed.
Imene Nouis, 31, was cited for child abuse on Thursday after cops removed her toddler from her car in Parker, Colorado.
Cops said temperatures had reached a blistering 135 degrees inside the potentially deadly vehicle, Fox 31 reported.
A suicidal mother who brutally murdered her two young daughters with a hatchet in North Carolina this weekend said a "ghost" killed her children, authorities said.
Naiyana Gauri Patel made the claim to a police officer after a failed attempt to kill herself after the slayings, the Asheville Citizen-Times newspaper reported Monday.
A desperate Florida mom was locked up after she tried to hawk her 5-year-old son to some friends for $2,000 police said.
Jessica Marie Beers, 28, was nabbed by cops on Saturday after a couple she offered the child to dropped a dime on her to authorities, My Fox Tampa reported.
John Gardner, 58, told police he and his wife had met Beers at church, and they… Continue
An Oregon woman who tried to circumcise her 3-month-old son with a box-cutter was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to get her head examined.
Keemonta Peterson, 30, of Portland, pleaded guilty to first-degree criminal mistreatment earlier this year, The Oregonian newspaper reported Monday.
"The reality is you love your children and had absolutely… Continue
A Connecticut mother was arrested after she forced her 4-year-old son to chug a bottle of beer - and gave her 10-month-old daughter booze and cocaine, police said.
Juliette Dunn, 29, who lives in Success Village, Conn., was sitting with a friend Lisa Jefferson on a playground when another mom flagged down officers and complained that she was feeding her child beer,… Continue
A Chicago-area mother suffocated her 3-month-old baby to death and then strapped him into a BabyBjorn carrier and went shopping, prosecutors said.
Toyrianna Smith, 20, was drinking vodka with friends at a home in Harvey, Ill., south of Chicago, last Wednesday when she beat and suffocated Ken Blackman Jr. because he wouldn't stop crying, prosecutors said in a bond… Continue
Here's the story of a lovely lady ... who had a one-night-stand with former New York mayor John Lindsay that left her with a bad case of crabs.
Florence Henderson, the golden haired actress who played Carol Brady in "The Brady Bunch," reveals in her upcoming memoir that she had a skeevy encounter with the career pol in the 1960s.
Beyoncé is a diva onstage, but it sounds like her mother is one all the time.
An onset source for Beyoncé's "Best Thing I Never Had" video, which was shot in Westchester County on Wednesday and in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Thursday, tells us although the bootylicious Beyoncé was sweet as sugar on set, it was her mother, Tina Knowles, who demonstrated some serious… Continue
A woman known as the "Human Barbie" wants to pass her love of plastic onto her young daughter.
Sarah Burge, a British professional party organizer, erotic novelist and cosmetic surgery devotee told Closer magazine that she recently gave her 7-year-old daughter a voucher worth £6,000 ($9,850) for breast enhancement surgery, per the Daily Mail.
A Bronx mother of four was fatally shot in front of her youngest child - collapsing on the street while still clutching her 2-year-old son's hand, police said Monday.
Claudia Millan, 28, was returning to her East Tremont apartment from a nearby store about 11 p.m. Sunday when she was shot in the face, cops said.
Millan was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital,… Continue
'Teen Mom' star Gary Shirley was arrested on May 24 by authorities in Alexandria, Ind. for driving with a suspended license. According to the arrest report obtained by RadarOnline.com, Shirley was arguing with on-off girlfriend Amber Portwood in a pulled-over parked car.
'I placed Mr. Shirley in two (2) sets of handcuffs due to his size. Both sets of handcuffs were… Continue
Parents weren't the only ones who seemed to have a big problem with Kerry Campbell after she appeared on "Good Morning America" and admitted she gave regular Botox injections to her 8-year-old daughter, Britney.
"We need to sit down and talk with the mom, talk with the child, and see what's going on," Trent Rhorer, the head of San Francisco's Child Protective… Continue
A Queens woman dumped her newborn baby in a hospital trash can after she gave birth Tuesday - and was busted napping in her home just two hours later, sources said.
Dawa Lama, 23, put the infant in a trash bin inside the emergency room bathroom of Elmhurst Hospital Center, where she gave birth to the child shortly before 2:30 p.m., the sources said.
The suicidal mom who drove her family van into the Hudson River posted a terrifying Facebook warning just 30 minutes before killing herself and her three children.
"I'm so sorry everyone forgive me please for what I'm gonna do.... This Is It!!!!" Lashanda Armstrong wrote from her Blackberry shortly before the Tuesday night tragedy.
A Newburgh mom, apparently unhinged by an argument at home, killed herself and her three kids by plunging the family minivan into the murky Hudson River, officials said.
Only the dead woman's 10-year-old son escaped the death vehicle on Tuesday night, leaving the mom to drown with her sons, ages 2 and 5, and her 11-month-old daughter, officials… Continue