Recent Posts in Child Abuse Category
Posted on Jan 30, 2013 By Attorney Robert M. Bernstein
In mid-January, a Los Angeles woman reported that her two adopted children were missing, prompting a search by the Los Angeles Police Department. The children, ages 7 and 8, were found hiding under a ...
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Posted on Jan 11, 2013 By Attorney Robert Bernstein
A San Bernardino woman was arrested for her alleged role in the death of a 2-year-old girl who died after eating chili powder. Authorities responded to a call of a child suffering from a seizure and ...
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Posted on May 4, 2012 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Attorney
A San Diego man is in custody, accused of attempting to sacrifice his own son in a San Diego area cemetery. Joseph Ramirez took his wife and son to Mount Hope Cemetery and told them his dead ...
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Posted on Jun 24, 2011 By Law Offices of Robert M. Bernstein
Costa Mesa police recently arrested a homeless man for allegedly throwing an object at a 3-year-old in Lions Park. He was charged with felony child abuse, assault and battery, assault of an officer, ...
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Posted on Mar 28, 2011 By Criminal Defense
Michael Balderas of Santa Ana was recently sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for beating his 2-year-old niece to death. He had been given custody of his niece, Jo Jade, in October, 2005, after ...
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Posted on Mar 12, 2011 By Los Angeles Defense Lawyer
A Beverly Hills movie producer, whose credits include numerous children's movies, recently plead guilty to molesting a teenage girl he met on MySpace. Iren Koster, 62, met the girl on the website when ...
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Posted on Nov 25, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
24-year-old man was recently arrested by Federal Agents on suspicion of using the Internet to induce a minor to engage in criminal sexual activity. The defendant had allegedly posed as a 19-year-old ...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2010 By Robert Bernstein
24-year-old Alejandro Lorenzo Contreras was recently convicted of Possessing Child Pornography and Annoying and Molesting a 12-year-old girl at a local public library. Contreras pursued three girls ...
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Posted on Aug 4, 2010 By Los Angeles Criminal Defense Lawyer
Cheryl Ann Stuart, 25, and 31-year-old Mario Alberto Colin, have been arrested and charged with two felony counts each of child abuse and corporal injury to a child. Police were called to the Santa ...
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