Once again we have a case of a mother using her live in penis, uh, I mean boyfriend, as daycare, and having said boyfriend injure the child he was supposed to be taking care of.

One of the things I’ve noticed about abuse cases like this is that the victims are almost always from the most helpless and difficult of age groups, from newborn through age three. Anyone who has had children knows that this is the age group that tests your patience the most. They cry constantly and can’t communicate why. They won’t go to sleep, no matter how much you want them to or how tired you are. They misbehave and challenge your authority. They refuse to potty train and mess themselves at the worst possible moments.  Read more... (942 words, 4 images, estimated 3:46 minutes reading time)

UPDATE: QUEENS GAY BASHING VICTIM SPEAKS
by On Top Magazine staff

Jack Price, the 49-year-old gay victim of a brutal beating in Queens, New York, spoke Saturday to New York daily the Daily News.

Price was attacked last week by two men as he was coming out of a corner deli around 3AM in the middle-class neighborhood of College Point in Queens, Police say.

Price managed to make his way home after Daniel Rodriguez, 21, and Daniel Aleman, 26, kicked and pummeled the 5-foot-6, 130-pound Price in the middle of the deserted street. He was taken to Booth Memorial Hospital where officials say he suffered a broken jaw, fractured ribs and a lacerated spleen.

“I thought I died,” Price told the paper. “I was bleeding all over the place.”  Read more... (1416 words, 3 images, estimated 5:40 minutes reading time)

There aren’t many things that can get me going like a story about an abused little child. Take the actions of the genius to the left here, 25-year-old Brian Mark Hopf. Up until a few days ago, Brian had a little daughter. Considering that Brian was a hard core tweaker, and often took care of the newborn without supervision while smoking meth, it’s amazing that Isabella Hopf made it to 3-weeks-old before tragedy struck.

Brian Hopf lived with his girlfriend, father, stepmother and stepbrother in a nice little house that his parents owned in Chandler, Arizona. On Monday morning, September 8th, 2009, his girlfriend woke to find their newborn daughter unresponsive in her crib with a deep bruise on her forehead. She immediately called 911, and paramedics rushed the baby to a local hospital, where doctors sent Isabella straight to the neonatal intensive care unit.  Read more... (731 words, 3 images, estimated 2:55 minutes reading time)

Say hello to Michael King. He’s 38 years old, divorced, and has one son. He was born in Pontiac, MI and is one of four brothers. He moved to Northport, FL in January of 2008, newly single after a breakup with a girlfriend who called him “meek and deceitful”. He’s a plumber and he’s attracted to petite blonde women. Not long after his move to Florida, Michael became lonely and decided to seek out another woman.

On January 17, 2008, he found Denise Amber Lee, a beautiful 21 year old married mother of two boys.  Read more... (1168 words, 5 images, estimated 4:40 minutes reading time)

Whenever I read a story about random acts of kindness; my heart warms just a little bit. When I heard the story of Michael Steven Ratley putting himself at risk to pull his 2 week old son and wife out of their burning mobile home; I felt my heart fluttering. There are still good people in the world. Or are there?

Michael Ratley spoke to the media and said that losing everything physical in his life meant nothing since he still had Effie and Aiden, his wife and son. He appeared to be a selfless man who endured a great tragedy and was going to brush it off and move on. Appearances can be deceiving.  Read more... (1118 words, 4 images, estimated 4:28 minutes reading time)

I’m not sure why there are a handful of people out there who have such an intense hatred of cats that the feel that torturing and killing these sensitive, gentle creatures is an OK thing to do. I tend to blame the cats for this. They are very discriminating about the type of people they show their affection to, and obviously they’re going to express nothing but disdain to those people who have such a serious defect in their character. Cat killers must find that quite antagonizing.

I imagine 36-year-old self employed graphic artist Sean Lynde probably had a resentment against cats well before he moved into his his girlfriend’s Upper West Side apartment on October 1st, 2008. On his Web site, Lynde doesn’t come off as a crazed cat killer, but The Daily News wrote that he made his preference for dogs perfectly clear:  Read more... (892 words, 4 images, estimated 3:34 minutes reading time)

This is 21-year-old Kenneth Lopez.

As of the 8th of March, 2009, Kenneth Lopez and Danielle McCleary had been dating for about 3 months. They got along famously, like a matched set of knives, or possibly like two jars of pickle relish. Either way, they worked really, really well together and will probably be featured in some kind of parenting documentary at some point.

The couple had recently moved to Tampa, Florida from Illinois, taking up residence in room 108 at the Homestead Studio Suites hotel.

Living and travelling with Kenneth Lopez and Danielle McCleary were Danielle’s two children: a 3-year-old boy and 2-year-old Gabrielle Randel.

For some reason, Gabrielle cried a bit on the night of the 7th of March, 2009. Why, we don’t know.  Read more... (918 words, 3 images, estimated 3:40 minutes reading time)

All couples fight at some point in their relationships. Some talk rationally, some yell, and some even get physical. Jessica Arrowood (Her MySpace – thanks motherof3) and her boyfriend Jesse Pacheco were a couple that fought with their fists. But, being the upstanding people that they are, they didn’t want to hit each other, I mean they’re in love. Instead when things got a little heated, they decided to beat Jessica’s children.

Pacheco would beat Jessica’s “favorite son”, 4-year-old Raymond, to get back at Jessica, and Jessica would in turn beat his favorite child, her 5-year-old daughter Alea. The probable cause affidavit said Arrowood had:

“snatched Alea up by her hair, picked her up by her throat one-handed, threw her like a rag doll and wrapped her arms around Alea’s throat.”  Read more... (612 words, 2 images, estimated 2:27 minutes reading time)