Family Rights and Child Abuse News

Woman charged with neglecting children

by Shawn McGrath

An Anderson woman faces a felony charge for allegedly neglecting her 4- and 6-year-old daughters while she visited a plasma center Tuesday.

Hornaday arrived at the apartment shortly before 2:30 p.m. She said she was at the blood plasma center, International Bio Resources, 19 W. Ninth St., but didn't say how long she was gone. An employee at the plasma center said Hornaday was at the center from about 8:20 a.m. until after 2 p.m.

The Herald Bulletin

October 1, 2008

Woman drove drunk with Macomb judge, his children, police say

by Mark Hicks

A report of suspected child abuse, neglect or endangerment has been filed after a woman was charged with driving drunk with a Macomb County judge and his two children in her car, police said.

Judge Richard Caretti has not been charged in the Saturday night incident, but his companion, Brenda Conway, was arraigned Tuesday in 46th District Court in Southfield on one count of operating while intoxicated with occupants under age 16, said Det. Lt. William Castro of the Franklin-Bingham Farms Police Department. Her next court date is scheduled for Jan. 28.

detroitnews.com

January 16, 2013

Woman Facing Child Pornography Charges Waives Hearing

by Harry Funk

A Moon Township woman accused of producing child pornography waived her right to a preliminary hearing Friday in Coraopolis. Pamela Smallis, 50 who has residences listed in Moon and Oakdale, faces a formal arraignment Jan. 3.

She is charged with 34 counts of sexual abuse of children; 16 counts of unlawful contact with a minor; five counts of sexual exploitation of children; five counts of endangering the welfare of children; five counts of corruption of minors; and one count of criminal use of a communication facility.

sewickley.patch.com

November 17, 2012

Woman finds she wasn't given up at age 2 for adoption

by Caitlin Cleary

When Darlene Jones was growing up in Pittsburgh, she was told that her mother gave her away when she was a baby to Mose and Marilee Minifield, the couple who raised her along with their three other foster and adopted children.

Jones wouldn't know her birth mother's version of events for many years -- that she had not been given away, but had been spirited off as a baby and taken to Pittsburgh. But over the years, suspicions took root. Once or twice, she spied a different name on her birth certificate and on a driver's license learner's permit, before Marilee Minifield whisked them out of sight. The Minifields would ask her not to write their Pittsburgh return address on Christmas cards to an aunt and uncle in Arkansas, saying they didn't want anybody to find them.

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

January 9, 2005

Woman gets 6 years for felony child neglect

by Lisa Trigg

A Terre Haute mother has received a six-year prison sentence for felony child neglect of her 10-month-old daughter under a plea agreement accepted Monday in Vigo Superior Court 3.

Dawn Day Gutierrez, 21, pleaded guilty in June to class-B felony neglect of a dependent resulting in serious bodily injuries. In her plea agreement, two class-C felony charges of neglect of a dependent were dropped.

The Tribune-Star

July 14, 2009