In Australia:
Twin baby girls were fighting for their lives after being bashed by their father on Feburary 11 2008. The girls remained in a critical condition after both undergoing surgery for massive head injuries, including skull fractures, at Westmead Children's Hospital. The four-month-old sisters were flown to Westmead from Orange Base Hospital in the state's Central West. The children had been in the care of their father, 23, from Ermington in Sydney's west, since Thursday morning.
On May 12, 2008 The father of three-year-old Perth boy Imran Zilic has been formally charged with his son's murder.
The boy had been taken by his father on a two-day custody visit from his mother Mirsada Halilovic's Perth home on April 20. He was later reported missing. Police said he was last seen on April 21, when he and his father checked into Poochera Hotel on the Eyre Peninsula in SA. The boy's body was found in a mine shaft near Coober Pedy in South Australia's far north on Friday - after he had been missing for three weeks.
The boy had been taken by his father on a two-day custody visit from his mother Mirsada Halilovic's Perth home on April 20. He was later reported missing. Police said he was last seen on April 21, when he and his father checked into Poochera Hotel on the Eyre Peninsula in SA. The boy's body was found in a mine shaft near Coober Pedy in South Australia's far north on Friday - after he had been missing for three weeks.
ON June 11, 2008, A 31-year-old West Australian man was jailed for 10 years for bashing a three-year-old boy to death after inflicting injuries described by a judge as "almost beyond belief". Timothy Leonard Gordon Farmer, of Albany, was sentenced in the West Australian Supreme Court after pleading guilty to the manslaughter of Mason James Coughlan on October 30, 2006.
Karen Bell lost Jack, Maddie and Bon Bell. Her children were killed by their father Gary Bell in a murder suicide on June 28. In the days leading up to their deaths, Bell had been arrested for domestic violence but was released soon after. His estranged wife Karen, pictured above with the children, had taken out an apprehended violence order against him, and the Department of Community Services had been notified there were problems in the family.
On December 11 Sadik Sljivo, 33 Set fire to his home with two sons inside, It is believed the children's mother had left the house and told police the children were inside. Shocked neighbours watched as fire erupted in a front room. After smashing the shutters, officers allegedly saw him holding the two children. Officers then broke the window and climbed through to free the boys and hand them to through the window to other police. Mr Sljivo appeared in Dendenong Magistrates Court this afternoon on 12 charges including two counts of attempted murder, one of conduct endangering life, two of false imprisonment, one count of threatening to kill, one of criminal damage by fire, one of assault with a weapon and other minor charges.
In USA:
The head injuries that killed a 4-month-old boy in October occurred while he was being cared for by his father, court documents say.
In a petition filed in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court's Family Division, the Michigan Department of Human Services said Christian D. Holmes, of Texas Township, was brought Sept. 12 to Bronson Methodist Hospital with injuries that included bleeding on the brain and retinal hemorrhaging. He was diagnosed with shaken baby syndrome and died Oct. 4 after being taken off life support.
Christian D. Holmes"It was determined that the injuries occurred while the child was in the sole care of the father, Mannie Holmes," said the petition, which sought to the terminate the parental rights to Christian and his twin sister, Camille, of their father, Mannie Holmes III.
Prosecutors filed charges Oct. 13 against the girl's father, Jon E. Pomeroy, and stepmother, Rebecca A. Long, nearly two months after the girl was removed from the home by the state Department of Social and Health Services. Sheriff's deputies arrived at the Carnation home the evening of Aug. 13 after neighbors reported hearing a girl screaming. In court documents, the deputy sheriff who interviewed the 14- year-old described her as "extremely skinny and pale" and found she weighed only 48 pounds. Doctors evaluating the girl found nearly all of her teeth were either eroded or chipped, according to court documents. She was "extremely malnourished," the doctors said, and hadn't gained any weight since she was 9 years old.
Vincent Romero was a divorcee with custody of his 8-year-old son. Romero re-married again in September, 2008. His 8-year-old boy killed his father, Vincent Romero and his friend, Timothy Romans, in St. Johns, Arizona, on November 5, 2008, local police reported. According to authorities, the murders were "premeditated" and the investigators are trying to determine whether abuse could have led to the shootings. A judge ordered a psychological evaluation of the detained boy. Arizona law allows suspects 8 years of age or older to be tried as adults, as prosecutors intend to do in this case.
Ryan Dutter was divorced from the boy’s mother and shared parenting responsibilities. Dutter and his son had moved to Middleton only in the last few months. On 19th November, they found him and his son, Ryan Dutter, mortally wounded. Dutter's father, shot and killed his son and turned the gun on himself in an unsuccessful suicide attempt.
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