The minor was adopted by accused Ajay Bhati's wife Anjana alias Sanjana, police said, adding that it is alleged that the accused sexually assaulted her on several occasions.

Ghaziabad News - Press Trust of India

Ghaziabad (UP): A man was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing his four-year-old adopted daughter in Ghaziabad, police said.

The minor was adopted by accused Ajay Bhati's wife Anjana alias Sanjana, police said, adding that it is alleged that the accused sexually assaulted her on several occasions.

On March 11, the girl told Bhati that she would narrate her ordeal to Sanjana, following which, he slapped her and later, strangled her to death, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Trans Hindan, Vivek Chandra Yadav said.

Ghaziabad (UP), Mar 14 (PTI) A man was on Tuesday arrested for allegedly sexually assaulting and killing his four-year-old adopted daughter here, police said.

The minor was adopted by accused Ajay Bhati's wife Anjana alias Sanjana, police said, adding that it is alleged that the accused sexually assaulted her on several occasions.

On March 11, the girl told Bhati that she would narrate her ordeal to Sanjana, following which, he slapped her and later, strangled her to death, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Trans Hindan, Vivek Chandra Yadav said.

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The plea agreement would have given the failed South Dakota Senate candidate no jail time in exchange for a guilty plea

By Hunter Dunteman

WHITE RIVER, S.D. — A failed South Dakota Senate candidate accused of sexually assaulting an underage relative has had a plea agreement that would have spared him jail time denied by a judge.

Sixth Circuit Judge Margo Northrup on Monday rejected a plea agreement in the case of Joel Koskan, of Wood, who currently faces one count of felony child abuse.

The charge stems from May 6, 2022, when a retired DCI agent contacted county and state investigators seeking assistance in a sexual assault investigation involving a 19-year-old woman who is related to Koskan. According to the retired agent, the woman disclosed that Koskan had been “raping her since she was a young child.”

TIM HAHN   Erie Times-News

A Crawford County woman accused of fatally poisoning her adopted special needs son in September 2021 pleaded no-contest to third-degree murder in the case days before she was scheduled for trial.

Mary E. Diehl, 64, entered the no-contest plea before Crawford County Judge Mark Stevens on Friday morning, according to her lawyer, Eric Hackwelder. Diehl is scheduled to be sentenced on Wednesday afternoon.

Hackwelder said Diehl faces a range of sentencing of no less than six to 12 years in prison to no more than 10 to 20 years on the plea.

Diehl's plea came as jury selection was scheduled to begin on Monday for her trial in Crawford County. Hackwelder and prosecutors said during a pre-trial hearing in September that they expected the trial to take about a week.

A couple from the west metro who fled the country after being charged in connection with their adopted son’s death learned their punishment Tuesday afternoon.

Hennepin County Judge Carolina Lamas sentenced 45-year-old Sarah Johnson and 46-year-old Timothy Johnson to each serve a year in the county workhouse, the maximum penalty, for child neglect.

Prosecutors say that in 2015, 7-year-old Seth Johnson was found unresponsive in the Johnsons’ Plymouth home. Investigators say the boy had bruises and breaks on his skin.

Court documents show the boy was placed in foster care with the couple when he was three.

Before he died, the parents said their son was sick, but they refused to take him to the doctor. An autopsy showed the boy had died from acute pancreatitis and possible sepsis. He was below the 10th percentile in his age group for growth measurements.

By Lee Brown

A phony Hasidic dad who found social-media acclaim for adopting nine boys has been charged with sexually abusing most of them — while out on bond in an earlier child sex case, according to disturbing reports.

Single dad Hayim Nissim Cohen, 38, regularly blogged about his “unique family” in Houston, gaining nearly 200,000 followers on TikTok.

But “behind all that is excessive abuse,” local prosecutor Janna Oswald told a recent court hearing, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Cohen — who claimed to be a Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn despite being born Jeffrey Lujan Vejil in the Lone Star State — was busted last month after one of his sons went on a podcast to anonymously report being raped and abused, the local paper noted.

The arrests were made after photographs of the four-year-old girl tied to a pole on the terrace of their apartment went viral on social media on Friday.

Guwahati:

A doctor and his family's domestic help were arrested in Guwahati on Saturday for allegedly physically abusing his adopted daughter, police said.

The arrests were made after photographs of the four-year-old girl tied to a pole on the terrace of their apartment went viral on social media on Friday.

The doctor's wife, also a medical practitioner, has not appeared before the police so far. She instead made a video and uploaded it on social media, claiming that a conspiracy was hatched to "defame and destroy" her family.

Suspect changed name to Hayim Cohen, fabricated Jewish backstory, courted media attention and allegedly assaulted minors over years, raising questions about ignored red flags

By LUKE TRESS

Authorities in Texas have charged a man with a slew of sex crimes after he apparently fabricated his Jewish identity, adopted nine boys, paraded his “unique family” on social media to hundreds of thousands of followers and allegedly abused a number of children.

The case has revealed a lack of oversight by state authorities and a private company that placed exchange students in the suspect’s home, critics said, and has stoked antisemitism and perturbed the local Houston Jewish community.

Hayim Nissim Cohen, 38, was charged last week with eight offenses including injury to a child under 15, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault of a child, and continuous sexual abuse of a child, adding to several charges against him from earlier last month, and a separate abuse case in 2019.

By Samantha Kummerer

ORT BRAGG, N.C. (WTVD) -- It's been more than five years since two toddlers ended up dead less than a year after being adopted.

The ABC11 I-Team special, 'Deadly Adoptions', first highlighted the case that exposed multiple cracks in the systems designed to protect children.

A Fort Bragg soldier and adopted father Anthony Rivera was scheduled to go to trial in February 2023 after he was issued a court martial in 2021 for the homicide of his two- and three-year-old children. Court records show Rivera pleaded not guilty in January 2023.

On March 1, 2023, charges against Rivera were withdrawn, according to military court records.

Police say 8-year-old Meela Miller endured horrific abuse by her legal guardian, leading many to wonder why she never got the help she needed.

By Whitney Ward

AIRWAY HEIGHTS, Wash. — An Airway Heights couple is behind bars, accused of stunning child abuse that led to the death of an 8-year-old girl.

Police say their investigation spanned across two states after Mandie Miller, and her boyfriend, Aleksandr Kurmoyarov, drove to Mitchell, S.D. in December 2022, pulling a U-Haul trailer. Court documents say they arrived at a funeral home with a coffin containing the remains of a deceased child. 

Documents state the couple did not have the proper documentation for a burial, so the funeral home called the police. Detectives said Miller and Kurmoyarov “seemed very nervous after finding out they were supposed to have documentation.”