Enfield Stepfather Charged In Case Of 12-Year-Old Found Dead, DNA Links Him To Crime
A Connecticut stepfather is behind bars after police say DNA evidence linked him to the sexual assault of his 12-year-old girl, who was later found dead inside her home, authorities said.
Anthony Federline, 39, of Enfield, was charged with sexual assault in the first degree and risk of injury to a child, police said.
The investigation began on the morning of March 18 when police responded to Federline's home for a report of an unresponsive child. Inside, officers found the girl’s mother, her 17-year-old brother, and Federline.
The girl was found on the floor of her be…
Drunk Mom On Virginia Military Base Drove With Toddler, Left 3-Year-Old Home Alone: DOJ
A Virginia mother got drunk, left her toddler home alone, and drove off — before the child was found crying in the street.
Rachel Lorane Pendergrast, 30, who lived with her husband and children in military housing on Fort Eustis, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from her drinking, driving, and leaving a toddler home alone, according to federal officials..
In December 2025, prosecutors said that Pendergrast was responsible for the care of her three minor children while her husband was away from the home.
The oldest child was at school/childcare, and the younger two children were…
Starving Dog From Lyndhurst Hoarding House Adopted By Original Owner Who Gave Him Up Years Ago
When Lindsey Cruz saw the video, she felt her stomach drop.
There, in the corner of a clip showing the severely cluttered Lyndhurst home, was a familiar face. Thinner, older, but unmistakable.
Leo, the beagle-bulldog she'd received as a Mother's Day gift in 2018 but had to rehome in 2023.
“I was like, there’s no way that’s him,” Cruz said. “He looks like an old man now.”
Cruz had driven all the way from Pearl River, NY (where she lived at the time) to Ohio to pick him up in 2018. Then, he was a chunky, happy “meatball” of a pup with a minor eye condition she immediately treated.
Le…
5 Children Locked In 'Dungeon' With Feces-Covered Walls, No Beds By PA Parents: Officials
Five children were trapped in a locked room described as a “dungeon,” where authorities say they lived among filth, boarded-up windows, and no beds.
A Pennsylvania couple, James Russell Kahl and Carly Kahl, is accused of holding their children, ages five to 14, in “deplorable conditions” at a home in Redstone Township, Fayette County, according to Pennsylvania State Police.
The investigation began in early August after Children and Youth Services received a complaint about the family, authorities said. When troopers responded to the home with CYS, they discovered no beds, boarded-up windows…
Clarksburg Mother Indicted For Murder Of Children Missing Since 2014 (Updated)
After more than a decade, Catherine Hoggle is now facing murder charges in the case of her missing children in Maryland.
Hoggle, 38, of Clarksburg, was indicted by a Montgomery County grand jury on two counts of murder nearly 11 years after her children — Sarah, 3, and Jacob, 2 — disappeared, police announced on Sunday, Aug. 3.
Sarah and Jacob Hoggle were last seen on Sept. 7, 2014. Their mother was reportedly the last person seen with them, Montgomery County Police said.
Jacob was last seen on Sunday Sept. 7, 2014, at Catherine Hoggle’s mother’s home.
Hoggle borrowed her father’s car and…
‘Forced To Live In Shed, Dig Hole To Defecate’ Ephrata Couple Starved Child: Affidavit
A Lancaster County couple forced a juvenile to live in a shed without plumbing, starved him, and assaulted him when he refused to return there, according to affidavits of probable cause released on Thursday, July 31.
Grace Louise Sensenig, 42, and Daryl Jay Sensenig, 41, of Reinholds, were arrested after Ephrata Police responded to a domestic dispute on the 800 block of Laurel Ridge Road around 5 p.m. Wednesday, July 30, police said.
The juvenile had been living in a wooden shed about 100 yards behind the couple’s home since mid‑March, according to court filings obtained by Daily Voice. Inv…
2-Year-Old, 5-Year-Old Left Alone At Park: Denville PD
A 40-year-old Jefferson resident was arrested and charged after she left two children in her care alone at a Denville park, authorities announced Friday, July 25.
On Sunday, July 20 at 6 p.m., officers responded to the Gardner Field playground after receiving a report of two children, ages two and five, alone and crying in the corner of the playground, Denville police said.
An investigation revealed the children’s caretaker, Anna Masuk, accidentally left them unattended at the playground for an extended period of time, police said.
When Masuk returned to the scene, officers observed she wa…
Virginia Woman Driving Drunk Crashes Car With Infant Inside: Sheriff
A Virginia woman was arrested for DUI after a violent rollover crash with a 7-month-old child in the car, the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies responded to Warrenton Road (Route 17) in South Stafford around 9:12 p.m. Friday, July 5, and found a Kia upside down on the shoulder with "significant damage,” a spokesperson from the agency said.
The driver, identified as Kaila Blackwell, 29, of Midland, was not wearing a seatbelt at the time of the crash and showed signs of intoxication, according to investigators..
"Amazingly, neither Blackwell, who was unrestrained, or her 7-mont…
Mom, Dad Caused Death Of 3-Year-Old Child In Glens Falls, Police Say
A pair of New York parents are facing felony charges after their 3-year-old daughter died in what authorities describe as a case of severe neglect.
Matthew Dylewski, 33, and Samantha Dylewski, 32, of Glens Falls, were arrested on Wednesday, May 7 on suspicion of criminally negligent homicide in connection to the death of their young daughter, Joycelynn Ann Dylewksi, according to the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office.
Joycelynn died nearly three months earlier on Wednesday, Feb. 19, inside a second-floor apartment in the village of Corinth, deputies said.
While her cause of death has not be…
Woman Ditches Wrecked Car With 10-Year-Old Girl Inside, Found Drunk At Woodbridge Home: Police
A Virginia woman is facing a felony child neglect charge after police say she crashed her vehicle with a 10-year-old girl inside, fled the scene, and was later found intoxicated at her home.
The incident happened just after midnight on Friday, April 26, when officers were called to the 14700 block of Ashdale Avenue in Woodbridge to investigate a crash, Prince William County Police said.
According to investigators, 29-year-old Jazmine Nichole Conward was driving when her vehicle veered off the road, struck a parked car, tore through two front yards, and finally came to a stop.
Police …
Drunk Passenger Grabs Wheel, Crashes Car, Assaults Paramedics In Virginia: Sheriff
A chaotic DUI crash in Virginia took a wild turn when a drunk passenger grabbed the steering wheel mid-ride, caused a crash, and then allegedly assaulted rescue personnel trying to help him, officials say.
Stanley Oliver Jr., 61, of Warrenton, was arrested after the April Fools' Day incident that started around 8:15 p.m. near Warrenton Road and Cedar Grove Road, according to the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies responded to a crash involving a Dodge Charger that struck a tractor trailer, causing it to spin out and land in the median.
Inside the Charger was the driver, a juv…
