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(Daily Mail) - A mother has been arrested after trying to sell her eight month old son for $7,000.

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Kenia Quiala Bosque, 30, arranged to meet a prospective buyer in Miami to hand over her newborn son.

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(Associated Press) - A man convicted of trying to sell his baby outside a California Walmart store is heading to prison for six years.

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Patrick Fousek and Samantha Tomasini were arrested in June 2010 after witnesses told Salinas police that they were offering their 8-month-old daughter for $25.

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(Daily Mail) - A central Kentucky father trying to load groceries and his three children into a vehicle after a shopping trip forgot one thing — his 6-month-old infant.

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Steven Wilcox left his baby in a grocery cart after unloading everything else and drove away.

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(Daily Mail)A three-year-old boy was imprisoned in a bedroom without food or water after his mother and boyfriend nailed him in, police said.

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Officers had to bash down the door last Monday to free the child. They found him ‘living in filth,’ stuck in a dirty diaper and with acute rash, according to police reports.

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(Associated Press)Parents starved their baby for months claiming they were afraid she would end up obese, a court has heard. 

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Christopher and Mary Sultze, of Appleton, Wisconsin were both charged earlier this month with a felony count of child neglect. The couple face up to a year in prison and a $25,000 fine if convicted.

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(Associated Press)An Ohio woman and three others have been charged in the death of her 14-year-old daughter, who had cerebral palsy and weighed 28 pounds when she died.

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The Montgomery County coroner’s office ruled that the girl died March 1 from nutritional and medical neglect complicated by her chronic condition. She died minutes after paramedics rushed her to a hospital.

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(Daily Mail By PAUL THOMPSON)A mother is facing child abuse charges after she starved her three-year- old son to the point that he went into cardiac arrest.

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Arlena Alanz, 28, is alleged to have tied the special needs toddler to his crib with a rope to stop him from climbing out.

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(Daily Mail)Twin sisters have been arrested for murder after their three young children were left alone to die in a fire in their home.

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Akeevia Lajoseia Abner and Tekeevia Lajoseialan Abner, 18, from Atmore, Alabama were taken into custody on Monday by the state fire marshal.

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(Daily Mail By JESSICA SATHERLY)Police and search dogs were scanning a wooded area in Bellevue, Washington, yesterday after a two-year-old boy went missing while his mother went looking for gas.

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The mother took her other child, four, with her to walk a mile to the nearest petrol station after their car came to a halt, but left Sky Metalwala buckled into his car seat in the unlocked vehicle.

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(Daily Mail By RACHEL QUIGLY) - The body of a newborn baby boy that was found in a trash can at a Salvation Army store bathroom is believed to have been delivered alive and subsequently strangled.

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Police were called to the store in Streamwood, Chicago, after an employee found some blood on the bathroom floor and then the body, which was inside a plastic bag with its umbilical chord still attached.

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