Lam Luong, a 38-year-old jobless shrimper, was sentenced to die April 30 for murdering four young children by throwing them off an Alabama bridge in January 2008. He was convicted of capital murder in the deaths, which happened during a dispute with his wife. Three of the children were his own; the eldest was his wife's by another man.

Shana Brown of Uniontown, Pa., was charged with drugging her 13-year-old daughter so the mom's boyfriend, Duane Calloway, could get the girl pregnant, police said April 2. Police said Brown couldn't have a baby with Calloway so wanted her daughter to do it for her. The girl told police Calloway tried to rape her three times but that she got away.


Austrian Josef Fritzl was sentenced March 19 to life in a psychiatric facility for holding his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years, raping her repeatedly and fathering seven children with her -- three of whom were also imprisoned. He was also found guilty of murder in the death of one of the children due to medical negligence


Susan Johnson was charged April 2 with stabbing her 2-year-old daughter with scissors 100 times and attempting to strangle the toddler with an electrical cord. "I heard a woman screaming very loudly that she was going to 'Kill, kill, I have to kill you, Die, die, die,'" a neighbor said. Johnson's daughter, who had both serious and superficial wounds from the attack, was expected to live.


Philadelphia mother Andrea Kelly and others were charged in the death of Danieal Kelly, 14, who authorities said wasted away from neglect. Danieal weighed just 42 pounds when she died in August 2006, her body covered in bone-deep, maggot-infested bedsores. Andrea Kelly refused food or care for Danieal and kept her son from calling an ambulance for his "dying sister," the grand jury report said.


James Hawkins allegedly forced his daughter to help him dismember the body of her mother, Charlene Gaither, in February 2008. Hawkins' murder trial was scheduled to start in September in Memphis, Tenn., and his daughter, 13, was expected to be the chief witness against him.






Hug and kiss your child/ren tonight.. and be thankful they are in better homes and God let you be their parent(s)

I hate reading about this stuff.

I quit taking the paper and watching the news.