Tag: Child Murder

UK: Man Gets Schoolboy Sentence for Childhood Murder of Rikki Neave

June 24, 2022
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LONDON—A 41-year-old man who murdered a six-year-old English boy in 1994 has been sentenced by a judge as if he was a schoolboy. In what is thought to be a legal first, James Watson, who was 13 when he strangled Rikki Neave, was given the mandatory sentence for a juvenile —detention at Her Majesty’s Pleasure—at…

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UK Review After Murders Urges ‘Fundamental Shift’ in Protecting Children

May 25, 2022
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An independent national review into the deaths of Arthur Labinjo-Hughes and Star Hobson has found they were not “isolated incidents” and suggested child protection needed to “change fundamentally” in England. The review team, led by Annie Hudson, the chair of the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel, said child protection teams made up of police officers,…

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$1.5 Million Bail for Minnesota Woman Accused in Deaths of 2 Babies

May 10, 2022
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RED WING, Minn.—Unconditional bail was set at $1.5 million Tuesday for the Minnesota woman charged with leaving her newborn son to die beside a lake nearly 20 years ago and who authorities say abandoned another infant in the Mississippi River years earlier. Jennifer Matter, 50, appeared in court in Goodhue County via video on two…

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UK Prosecutor Says Child Cruelty Register Is ‘Good Idea’

April 26, 2022
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A woman whose adopted son had to have both legs amputated because of abuse by his birth parents says she will meet a British government minister next month to iron out the details of how a child cruelty register would work. Paula Hudgell, whose adopted son Tony had to have his legs amputated because of…

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