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16 Children Arrested in 14-Year-Old's Death

UK manslaughter suspects are ages 11 to 14

(Newser) - Police in the northeast of England have arrested 16 children on suspicion of manslaughter after a body thought to be that of a missing boy was found at the site of a fire Friday in an industrial park. Layton Carr, whom his school described as "valued and much loved,...

DOJ: FBI Failing to Report Sex Crimes Against Kids

Watchdog finds the bureau is only reporting cases to local authorities about half the time

(Newser) - The FBI is failing to report all suspected child sexual abuse cases to appropriate law enforcement agencies, according to a Justice Department watchdog report released Thursday. The review found no evidence that the FBI complied with mandatory reporting requirements in about 50% of the cases examined by the inspector general,...

Grandparents Say Caylee's Still Alive

Murder indictment just a 'tactic,' Cindy Anthony says on Today

(Newser) - The grandparents of missing Florida 3-year-old Caylee Anthony say they are not in denial for insisting she is alive, and told the Today Show they haven’t visited daughter Casey in jail in order to focus on the missing toddler. Casey’s mother, Cindy, called the murder indictment against her...

'Caylee's Dead' Remark Was Out of Context: Defense

Grandparents upset at 'uninformed' comment

(Newser) - Casey Anthony's defense team says comments that proclaimed the Florida woman’s missing 3-year-old daughter dead were edited “completely out of context,” the Orlando Sentinel reports. A defense spokesman who appeared on CNN last night mentioned “the loss of the life of this little girl” only in...

Man Throws His 4 Kids From Bridge
Man Throws His 4 Kids From Bridge
Jan 9, 2008 10:14 PM CST

Man Throws His 4 Kids From Bridge

Victims range in age from 4 months to 3 years; bodies still missing

(Newser) - An Alabama fisherman confessed to throwing his four young children to their deaths off an 80-foot bridge, the AP reports. Lam Luong, a 37-year-old Vietnamese immigrant, initially told police the children—ranging in age from 4 months to 3 years—were missing before admitting yesterday he had thrown them off...

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