(Daily Mail BY MIKE O’BRIEN) - A man was charged with murder, assault and criminal possession of a weapon on Monday after his step-daughter was shot dead and his wife, who was shot in the head, was left in a critical condition.

Guerino Annarumma, of Queens, New York, is accused of shooting his wife Olga Annaurmma, 57, and her daughter Valeria Kuzmina, 25, in their apartment just hours before they were due in court to finalize their divorce.
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(Reuters By JIM FORSYTH) - A woman in the border city of Laredo, Texas who was angry because she had been denied food stamps killed herself and shot and critically wounded her two children late on Monday, authorities said on Tuesday.

The 38-year-old woman entered the Texas Health and Human Services Commission office in downtown Laredo on Monday afternoon and demanded to speak to a supervisor, said investigator Joe Baeza of the Laredo Police Department.
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(Daily Mail) - A mother who took photos of sex acts with her own son and daughter has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Candice Miller, 32, from Alva in Florida, sexually assaulted her children and emailed the pictures to a paedophile, who is now in jail.
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(Daily Mail) - A mother has been arrested after trying to sell her eight month old son for $7,000.

Kenia Quiala Bosque, 30, arranged to meet a prospective buyer in Miami to hand over her newborn son.
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(Daily Mail) - A Reno, Nevada, mother’s live-in boyfriend is facing murder charges after 2-year-old Nalaya Jordan died after being severely abused, according to police.

Authorities say little Nalaya lived her short life in a home where her caretakers blew marijuana smoke in her face to make her sleep and beat her and shook her when she ‘whined.’
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(Daily Mail) - Two women are accused of using a baby as a weapon by wildly swinging the baby’s car seat at security guards after they were stopped for allegedly shoplifting.

Jodie Willis, 25, and 21-year-old Megan Kelley, of Orlando, Florida, are also accused of trying to use the shopping cart, with Kelley’s baby daughter in it in a car seat, to push past the guards when they were first stopped at the city’s Walmart store.
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(CBS Sacramento) - A man accused of endangering his child by allowing him to remain inside a car filled with marijuana smoke denied the allegations and said he never would have allowed his son to be put into a dangerous situation.

The Sacramento Police Department said officers pulled over a vehicle carrying two adults and a child in South Sacramento on Wednesday, finding a car that was allegedly so thick with smoke that officers couldn’t immediately see the two-year-old boy in the back seat.
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(Daily Mail By MARK DUELL) - A father has been jailed for beating his mentally ill wife to death with a flashlight after she strangled their son and tried to kill their daughter.

Christopher Smeltzer, 39, of New Hampshire, was jailed for up to 30 years after pleading guilty to killing Mara Pappalardo in November 2010.
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(Daily Mail) - Laura Gonzalez was happy to be back at work after three weeks away that included a stay at a battered women’s shelter.

She saw it as the beginning of a new life: one without her husband and the father of her four children, as she told co-workers. She wasn’t going back to him this time, she said, and left for home.
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(Daily Mail) - A 12-year-old boy has bravely told how he was medicated into a near-stupor as he was passed between foster care homes.

The seventh grader, known only as Ke’onte, told Congress that being given the mind-altering drugs was ‘the worst thing anyone could do to foster kids’.
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