The event took place in a US court. Dwayne Smith couldn't help himself and hit Clifford Thomas.

Dëayne's daughter, Jamila, died last September when her mother, Jasmine Gordon, and her husband, Clifford Thomas, took her to hospital after she couldn't breathe.

Experts later determined it was murder. According to them, Thomas had physically abused the girl.

The trial was later resumed, but no action was taken against Smith. The court found the couple guilty and sentenced them to 25 and 15 years in prison.

A twisted New Jersey special education teacher allegedly exchanged more than 25,000 text messages with the middle-school boy she is accused of sexually assaulting, according to a seven-count indictment.

Freehold Intermediate School’s Allison Havemann-Niedrach sent thousands of messages to the 15-year-old victim starting when the alleged abuse began in early 2024, and stopped in June with her arrest, according to the indictment.

Authorities began looking into Havemann-Niedrach, 44, in June, after the school’s vice principal told investigators he was worried about her relationship with the eighth-grader — after another teacher reportedly spotted her “rubbing the victim’s neck and back.”

The teacher also alleged they saw Havemann-Niedrach “flirting with him and noticed her touching his leg.”

The victim allegedly told friends he was dating the married teacher.

Talking to cops, though, the boy said he was dating Havemann-Niedrach’s daughter, insisting the educator did nothing inappropriate, the documents read.

But the texts on his phone proved otherwise, authorities said.

Over 25,000 text exchanges were recovered from the alleged victim’s phone.

Prosecutors previously said the former teacher was “obsessed” with her alleged victim, People reported.

The boy was brought to the police station by his mother days later, and he admitted having sex with Havemann-Niedrach.

Havemann-Niedrach was formally charged Tuesday with single counts of aggravated sexual assault, child endangerment through the manufacture of child sex abuse materials, official misconduct and sexual assault, as well as three counts of endangering.

She has been on home confinement in Jackson since posting bail after her initial arrest last year.

The disgraced teacher is the mother of two small children. Havemann-Niedrach started working at Freehold Intermediate in March 2022.

A Wisconsin man who allegedly threw a baby over a second-story balcony now faces felony charges and sits behind bars.

Jaimann Eiland, 31, was arrested March 15 after prosecutors said he “intentionally threw” a 1-year-old girl from the balcony of the Milwaukee, Wisconsin home of the baby’s mother Shakira Walters, whose age was not available.

According to a criminal complaint, an argument erupted between Walters and Eiland on March 13 after she heard her baby crying. WITI reported that the altercation escalated, and Eiland allegedly retrieved a knife and told Walters, “You gon’ die today.”

Per the criminal complaint, the argument continued to become more heated, leading up to Eiland allegedly grabbing the little girl by her head, dangling her over the second-story balcony of the home, and dropping her onto the wet lawn outside, narrowly missing an air conditioning unit. Eiland then returned to the house, the complaint said, and allegedly physically attacked Walters.

WISN, a local ABC affiliate, spoke to Walters who told the outlet of the little girl, “She could’ve died. She could’ve gotten really hurt from that, and I’m just mad.” Walters told WISN that despite the fall, the little girl only suffered minor bruising. But she told the outlet that she believed that Eiland “was definitely trying to kill my baby.”

According to the criminal complaint, the investigation began when officers responded to Froedtert Hospital, where Walters took herself and the baby after the alleged brawl with Eiland, who was identified as the ex-husband of Walters’ mother.

The baby was treated for minor injuries while Walters was treated for a sprained finger and a laceration to her forehead that required three stitches. Walters also reportedly had a swollen hand and pain in one of her legs, and her shirt was stained with blood.

Police stated in the criminal complaint that a bloody knife was found at the home.

During an interview after Eiland was taken into custody, he reportedly told police that he and Walters engaged in a “tug-of-war” with the baby before he allegedly tossed her off the balcony. Eiland admitted that the fight had gone too far after the baby’s fall, but that he did not believe he went overboard.

Eiland was booked into the Milwaukee County Jail after being charged with substantial battery with a domestic abuse modifier and child abuse. After his court appearance on March 17, bail was set at $15,000, and if he is able to post bail, he will be required to wear an electronic monitoring device upon release. If released, he is ordered not to contact Walters and other family members. His next court appearance is on March 24.

A Utah judge was put on unpaid leave after police accused him of committing several sex crimes involving children. The next day, a former fire chief from the same locality was charged with similar crimes. But court documents revealed an even deeper connection between the two men.

Ned Brady Hansen, 54, was charged on Tuesday (11/03/2025) with eight counts of aggravated sexual exploitation of a minor. When Hansen was first arrested on Jan. 27 — when he was still Tremonton’s fire chief — investigators working his case asked a judge to hold him in custody without bail due to the nature of his alleged crimes.

That judge, Kevin Christensen, 64, let Hansen go free.

On Monday, Christensen was charged with seven felony sex crimes involving children and obstructing justice. And according to an affidavit for Hansen’s arrest, the two men had been engaged in a “sexual relationship,” KSL reported.

Both men were investigated by police for alleged interactions on a chat app called Kik. Hansen came to the attention of investigators in November 2024 when the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children was alerted to Kik being used to distribute child sex abuse material. Investigators eventually allegedly connected one user account on the app to Hansen, who reportedly admitted to being the account user and possessing materials featuring children.