Author: Mariah Wheeler

On the night of the abuse, the mother was asleep when her boyfriend and her daughter returned from visiting the man’s parents. When she went to check on the child after she woke up, the mother found severe swelling on the side of her head. The boyfriend reportedly told the girl’s mother he thought her daughter might have fallen off of a chair at his parents’ house. But doctors said the injuries were inconsistent with a fall. Per reports, the suspect, later identified as Andrew M., was reportedly arrested for scalping a 3-year-old girl. The girl’s mother, Noel, reportedly discovered swelling…

Per reports, 18-year-old Julian, who was reportedly kidnapped in 2002, solved his own abduction case. During an interview, Julian said that he was 5 when the person took him from his mother and moved from Alabama to Ohio, where they lived under fake identities, the Daily Mail explained. The disappearance triggered a national missing-person alert, with Julian being listed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The boy’s father, Bobby, took him from his mother. The dad then changed his name to Jonathan and his son’s name to J.J. The kidnapping scheme was hatched after Bobby and his wife split up…