A day care provider in Rugby is accused of striking, kicking or throwing six children in her care. Lori Ann Voeller says she knows she’s innocent, and refers other questions to her attorney. Voeller, 47, is scheduled for a preliminary hearing next Thursday on child abuse charges.
A day care worker was charged with murder in the death of a 1-year-old girl she was caring for in her home in August, the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office said.
Deputies arrested Stephanie M. Spurgeon, 37, of 830 Edgehill Drive, Palm Harbor, at her home at 9:15 a.m. today on a charge of first-degree murder after a 2 1/2-month investigation.
A licensed day-care provider pleaded innocent Monday to charges that she locked four children - two infants and two toddlers - in a garden shed last month to avoid state inspectors because she was over her state limit.
Raeshala Morris was supposed to report to a halfway house last week, but she never showed up, police said. A warrant has been issued for her arrest. In April, Morris was sentenced to eight years probation after she was convicted of kidnapping 21-month-old Jakalia “K.K.” Brantley from a southwest Houston day care center where Morris was employed.
In the end, it really came down to the word of a 6-year-old girl against the word of a grown man. A jury in Ramsey County District Court believed the girl and convicted the man, Gene Hegerman, 54, on Friday afternoon of first-degree criminal sexual conduct.
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