These 11 Parent criminal cases still shock me. What is wrong with some parents today? How in the world can they even think of these things much less do them to their own children?
1. Shana Brown of Uniontown, Pa., was charged with drugging her 13-year-old daughter so the mom's boyfriend, Duane Calloway, could get the girl pregnant, police said April 2. Police said Brown couldn't have a baby with Calloway so wanted her daughter to do it for her. The girl told police Calloway tried to rape her three times but that she got away.
2. A mother got so fed up with her children's squabbling that she kicked them out of the car and drove off, police said Tuesday. Madlyn Primoff, 45, a lawyer from Scarsdale, N.Y., pleaded not guilty to a child endangerment charge. Authorities said the girls, ages 10 and 12, were not hurt, but the 10-year-old was upset by the incident.
3. Susan Johnson was charged April 2 with stabbing her 2-year-old daughter with scissors 100 times and attempting to strangle the toddler with an electrical cord. "I heard a woman screaming very loudly that she was going to 'Kill, kill, I have to kill you, Die, die, die,'" a neighbor said. Johnson's daughter, who had both serious and superficial wounds from the attack, was expected to live.
4. Ex-cultist Ria Ramkissoon pleaded guilty March 30 in the starvation death of her 1-year-old son, Javon Thompson. Officials said cult members stopped feeding the boy when he refused to say "Amen" after a meal. In an unusual deal, prosecutors agreed to drop the charges if the boy comes back to life.
5. Kristen Anne LaBrie, of Beverly, Mass., was charged in 2008 with reckless child endangerment for allegedly withholding her son's cancer medication. The autistic 9-year-old, who had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, died March 30. The mother may face new charges.
6. Austrian Josef Fritzl was sentenced March 19 to life in a psychiatric facility for holding his daughter in a dungeon for 24 years, raping her repeatedly and fathering seven children with her -- three of whom were also imprisoned. He was also found guilty of murder in the death of one of the children due to medical negligence.
7. Police said Angela Parenteau of Sun Prairie, Mont., let her 12-year-old daughter drive the girl's three younger siblings to day care on March 25. Parenteau allegedly told police she didn't want to drive because she was sick and on medication. She faces charges of endangering the welfare of children and allowing an unauthorized minor to operate a motor vehicle.
8. Madeline Kara Neumann of Weston, Wis., died in March 2008 after her parents prayed for healing rather than getting medical help. The 11-year-old, suffered from a treatable form of diabetes. Her parents, Dale and Leilani Neumann, are charged with reckless homicide in connection with her death.
9. David J. Peschl was charged Feb. 13 with one felony count of child abuse after his 9-year-old son wrote in a school essay that his dad had allegedly shot him in the buttocks with a BB gun when he was blocking the TV.
10. Kelly Marie Pocock pleaded guilty in January to child cruelty for letting her 3-year-old son smoke. Welsh prosecutors said video taken on a cell phone showed the tot popping a cigarette into his mouth, lighting it and taking a puff. The judge said it was clear the child was a habitual smoker but gave Pocock, 24, a suspended sentence.
11. Florida mother Casey Anthony is charged with murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee. The toddler's remains were found in the Orlando woods in December, six months after the little girl disappeared.
12. Philadelphia mother Andrea Kelly and others were charged in the death of Danieal Kelly, 14, who authorities said wasted away from neglect. Danieal weighed just 42 pounds when she died in August 2006, her body covered in bone-deep, maggot-infested bedsores. Andrea Kelly refused food or care for Danieal and kept her son from calling an ambulance for his "dying sister," the grand jury report said.
13. Raylene and Carl Worthington, March 2008 in Oregon City, Ore., face manslaughter charges after their 15-month-old daughter, Ava, died from an untreated infection. The Worthingtons belong to a church that believes in prayer rather than medical care. (Sources: AP, CBS News, CNN, Fox News)
