In NC, basketball is the semi-official state religion, and way too many parents hope think know that their kid is the next MJ.  I’d bet that this woman is one of them:
RALEIGH, N.C. — The mother of a middle school basketball player has been charged with assault after smacking the coach who took her […]

Big snakes and small kids don’t mix:
A Las Vegas toddler was pulled from the jaws of an 18-foot-long, 300 lb snake.
“That was the only thing I was thinking was I need to try and save this kid’s life,” neighbor Marlo Vinson said. Vinson was the first neighbor in the apartment complex to try and help […]

I oppose capital punishment for all cases at all times. That being said, I’m not sure I’d be opposed to staking these “parents” on top of a fire ant mound.
The parents of a 13-year-old who died when he was left tied to a tree are expected in an Edgecombe County court on murder and […]

His adoptive parents are something else.

These folks are in jail for something that would appear to have been beyond their control.
WICOMICO CHURCH, Va. — A 6-year-old Virginia boy who missed his bus tried to drive to school in his family’s sedan — and crashed.
His parents were charged with child endangerment.
State police said the boy suffered only minor injuries, and authorities […]

This fail is very sad and cost a young girl her life.  It might also cost her father the rest of his life in jail.
TWIN FALLS, Idaho – The father of an 11-year-old girl who died, likely of hypothermia, after trying to walk 10 miles in the snow on Christmas Day has been charged with […]

Apparently the gentle readers in Indiana are really gentle. I couldn’t figure out from the article which “B” word the bad parent in this tale scratched into her son’s forehead.
SELMA, Ind. — A Delaware County woman was arrested after her 9-year-old son told police she held him down and scratched a derogatory word onto […]

Do parents have a right to withhold necessary medical treatment from their kids, instead relying on prayer?
Faith healing has deep roots in American history, and yet it may seem surprising that in the 21st century children still die because parents choose not to seek medical help from physicians.
State laws across the nation exempt members […]