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PA Church Youth Leader Accused Of Molesting Child At McDonald’s: Affidavit PA Church Youth Leader Accused Of Molesting Child At McDonald’s: Affidavit
PA Church Youth Leader Accused Of Molesting Child At McDonald’s: Affidavit A 76-year-old church volunteer took three youth group members shopping and to lunch at McDonald's and ended up with police storming his home, as detailed in court documents obtained by Daily Voice.  Roy Andrews of the 4900 block Raudabaugh Road in Mechanicsburg was the youth leader for a Hispanic church in Harrisburg called “Iglesia La Fuenta” from 2014 through 2022, the police explained in a release. When attendance at the church declined, Andrews began volunteering his Sundays to drive children to a sister church in Mechanicsburg, according to the affidavit of probable cause.&nbs…

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by Jillian Pikora
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GF Who Choked BF's 3-Year-Old Son To Death With Baby Wipes Sentenced To Decades In PA Prison GF Who Choked BF's 3-Year-Old Son To Death With Baby Wipes Sentenced To Decades In PA Prison
Chelsea R. Cooley Sentenced For Killing 3-Year-Old Boy A girlfriend who choked her boyfriend's 3-year-old son to death with baby wipes has been sentenced, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced on Tuesday, April 9.  Chelsea Renae Cooley, 33 of Everett, pleaded guilty and was sentenced on Monday in connection with the killing of Travis W. Young Jr., according to the Attorney General's office.  Cooley had Travis at her home and was babysitting him for her boyfriend when he was found unresponsive on May 28, 2022. "The boy’s father was working a 12-hour shift and reported the child was normal and healthy when he left for …

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by Jillian Pikora
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'Barely Responsive' Infant Found In Bed With Dead Man In 'Filthy' PA Apartment, Police Say 'Barely Responsive' Infant Found In Bed With Dead Man In 'Filthy' PA Apartment, Police Say
Heaven Maez Give Infant To Man Who Died In 'Filthy' Home: PD A five-month-old baby girl was found in bed with a dead man in a Hershey apartment, police announced on Tuesday.  Heaven Maez is behind bars again after her infant daughter was found "in extremely unsanitary conditions" with a man who had died while supposedly caring for her, according to the Derry Township police on March 12. Maez had left her little girl with the unrelated 63-year-old man at his home in the 200 block of Cocoa Avenue about one week before the girl was found during a welfare check requested by the man's family at 5:22 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 20, the police detailed …

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by Jillian Pikora
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Girl Under 6-Years-Old Sexually Assaulted By Lititz Man, Police Say Girl Under 6-Years-Old Sexually Assaulted By Lititz Man, Police Say
Girl Under 6-Years-Old Sexually Assaulted By Lititz Man, Police Say A man has been charged in connection with multiple sexual assaults of a girl under the age of six, Northern Lancaster County Regional police announced on Monday, Jan. 1., 2024.  Detectives began investigating Wesley Franklin Kilpatrick, 27 of Lititz, in July 2023. That's when they "received a report of alleged sexual assault of a female under the age of 6," as stated in the police release.  The police explained that the "investigation revealed that Kilpatrick assaulted the victim multiple times during 2021 and 2022." All of the assaults reportedly took place at a home in the 900 …

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by Jillian Pikora
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SLEAZEBAG: NJ Case Worker Admits Groping Clients, Sexting Wank Pics, Threatening To Take Kids SLEAZEBAG: NJ Case Worker Admits Groping Clients, Sexting Wank Pics, Threatening To Take Kids
Sleazebag: NJ Case Worker Admits Groping Clients, Sexting Wank Pics, Threatening To Take Kids It’s about as low as someone who works in child welfare services can go. A now-former case worker with the New Jersey Department of Children and Families admitted groping women he was investigating, sending unwanted masturbation pics and threatening to have children taken from those who didn’t go out with him, authorities said on Friday. Gilberto Ortiz Jr., a 53-year-old bilingual family services specialist, told a mom he was investigating that he’d “help her” if she had a relationship with him, New Jersey Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin said. Ortiz warned the woman during a home visi…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities
Dad Charged With Murder Of First Baby Born At Penn State Hampden: Authorities The first baby who was born at Penn State Health Hampden Medical Center has died and his father has been charged with his murder, Pennsylvania State Police announced on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.  Avery Sampson was 8 lbs and 12 ounces when he was born to Kathryn "Kat" Durham and Timothy "Tim" Lloyd Sampson at the Hampden Medical Center in Enola at 9:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2021, according to Penn State Health News. The 13-month-old was "found died under suspicious circumstances" at the couple's home in the 100 block of Big Spring Terrace in West Pennsboro Township, Newville at 7:10 a.…

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by Jillian Pikora
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Infant On Meth Died In 'Deplorable Conditions' Mom's BF Arrested In SC, PA State Police Say Infant On Meth Died In 'Deplorable Conditions' Mom's BF Arrested In SC, PA State Police Say
Infant On Meth Died In 'Deplorable Conditions' Mom's BF Arrested In SC, PA State Police Say Seven months after a 7-week-old baby girl’s death, her mom's boyfriend Robert Eugene McCachren has been arrested in South Carolina, Pennsylvania state police have told Daily Voice on Wednesday, July 13. The infant went into cardiac arrest in the 100 block of Bentz Mill Road in Washington Township in York on Thursday, Jan. 27, according to a release by PSP. State police recieved a call at York Station, about a two-month-old baby girl who was not breathing, but when officers arrived to the pop-up trailer she was dead, according to an updated release by police. The mom, Ashley Nicol…

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by Jillian Pikora
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MA Man Kills PA Mom In Front Of Kids, Shoots Himself: DA MA Man Kills PA Mom In Front Of Kids, Shoots Himself: DA
MA Man Kills PA Mom In Front Of Kids, Shoots Himself: DA A Massachusetts man shot and killed a Pennsylvania mom of two Wednesday, June 8 before shooting himself during a domestic dispute, authorities said. Police responding to a call of a suicidal person inside a Clark Court home in Northampton Township found Samantha J. Rementer, 31, dead and Thadius W. McGrath, 35, with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the face around 5 p.m., Bucks County District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. Rementer lived with her two children, one 4 and the other nearly a year old, authorities said. Cops were met by the 4-year-old child who had ope…

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by Nicole Acosta
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Support Surges For Family Of 12 Year Old Twin Killed In DUI Crash In Pennsylvania Support Surges For Family Of 12 Year Old Twin Killed In DUI Crash In Pennsylvania
Support Surges For Family Of 12 Year Old Twin Killed In DUI Crash In Pennsylvania A community is rallying for the family of a 12-year-old boy who died as a result of a single-vehicle crash where the driver is thought to have been driving under the influence, according to police. Colby Crumlich, 12, of Swatara Township, was identified as the victim by his family on a verified GoFundMe campaign page. He died at a local hospital from injuries relating to the crash that occurred in the 700 block of Keckler Road on Saturday around 3:40 p.m., according to a release by the police. It is unclear which, if any of his siblings were in the vehicle but everyone in the vehicle wa…

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by Jillian Pikora
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West Earl PD: Man Accidentally Shoots Himself In Presence Of Child,Pot Plant, 5 Guns Seized West Earl PD: Man Accidentally Shoots Himself In Presence Of Child,Pot Plant, 5 Guns Seized
West Earl PD: Man Accidentally Shoots Himself In Presence Of Child,Pot Plant, 5 Guns Seized A man who accidentally shot himself in the hand in the presence of a juvenile was arrested after police found five firearms and a marijuana plant in his West Earl Township home, authorities said. Police were dispatched to the Marlene Way on reports of a shooting where they found 32-year-old Andrew Hogberg, with a gunshot wound in his hand around 7:25 p.m. March 29, West Earl police said. Officers applied a tourniquet to Hogberg's hand to stop the bleeding before he was taken to Lancaster General for treatment, police said. While inside Hogberg's home, officers found five firearms…

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by Jillian Pikora