PASCAGOULA, Miss. (WXXV)-A Pascagoula police officer has been fired after being arrested in Mobile County on child abuse charges. Officials with the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office have confirmed that Thomas Horn is the officer in question and was booked on…
JACKSON COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- A Jackson County woman is charged in an ongoing child abuse investigation. Sheriff’s investigators say the investigation into 46-year-old Melissa Pearson began in September 2025. Details are limited, but we do know the case involves a…
GEORGE COUNTY, Miss. (WXXV)- A woman has been arrested in a child abuse investigation in George County. According to the George County Sheriff's Office, the investigation began in October 2025, when officers from the George County Sheriff's Office criminal investigators…
LONG BEACH, Miss. (WXXV)- A Long Beach man has been sentenced to thirty years for child abuse. Omar Deluna pled guilty to one count of felony child abuse and one count of felony child endangerment. The investigation began when the…
A Vancleave man pleads guilty to exploitation of a child in Jackson County circuit court. According to Assistant District Attorney Carolyn Lewis, In April of 2022, investigators were made aware of sexual images of a child being uploaded to the…
This afternoon in Harrison County, the Blue Ribbon Committee on Child Protection rolled out a new legislative program that, if passed, would address improving…
Memorial Hospital, Friends of Court, and local Harrison County officials are taking a stand against Child Protective Services and Youth Court Judge Michael Dickinson after a 4-month-old was allegedly…
A woman charged with child abuse last week has now had charges upgraded to capital murder, Biloxi Police say. An autopsy conducted on a child brought in to Merit Health last week shows the 5-month old died of blunt force…
Knowing how and when to spot child abuse is something that abuse prevention advocates continue to spread awareness about, especially in South Mississippi. This is not the first story of…
A Biloxi couple are charged with felony child abuse in the death of a 5-month-old child. police say 20-year-old Summer Rose Hill and 21-year-old Takavian Keivon Gibbs brought the baby to the Merit Health Hospital about 12:51 p.m. Thursday. The…
A Kiln man is charged with felony abuse after drugs were found in the residence where the child was living. 38-year-old Louis Summers was charged with felony child abuse. He was taken to the Hancock County jail and bond has…
Another woman has been charged in connection to a felony child abuse case reported last week. 30-year-old Dawn Marie White has been charged with conspiracy to commit felony child abuse. She was taken to Harrison County jail. Her bond was…
Two Long Beach residents are facing felony charges related to child abuse. Long Beach Police Chief Billy Seal said 28-year-old Omar DeLuna is charged with felony child abuse and 36-year-old Angela Weigel is charged with accessory after the fact. Both…
A woman has pleaded guilty to child abuse after a five-month-old infant was found with multiple brain bleeds and skull fractures. Rosa Robicheaux went to the hospital with the child…
Harrison County Coroner Brian Switzer has confirmed the four-month-old child found unresponsive in a Biloxi hotel has died. Biloxi police officers answered a call Saturday about the child. They identified the person caring for the child as Christian Angel Cookmeyer.…
A 26-year-old Louisiana man has been charged with child abuse after police received a call about an unresponsive child. Biloxi officers answered the call at a hotel room in Biloxi on Saturday, finding the 4-month-old child unresponsive and took it…
SENATOBIA, Miss. (AP) — A couple in Mississippi’s Tate County is charged with felony child abuse after being accused of locking their grandchildren in a dog cage. The Tate County Sheriff’s Office said it received a report from East Tate…
On December 27th, a two-year-old died in Biloxi. Now his mother, 21-year-old Hailey Heard and stepfather 38-year-old Joseph Heard are being charged with capital murder in the child’s death. Kelly Bataille…
The FBI has identified the child pornography suspect who fatally shot two FBI agents at a Florida apartment complex as 55-year old David Huber.
HARTFORD, ALA. (AP) — A man is accused of performing sexual acts on a 1-year-old girl while the child's grandmother livestreamed it on a pornographic site, authorities in Alabama said. Lisa Williamson, 41, and Steven Anthony Jackson, 19, both of…
According to the National Children’s Alliance, nearly 700,000 children are abused in the United States each year. April is ‘Child Abuse Awareness Month’ and the experts want to shine a light on the growing issue. Here on the Mississippi Gulf…
April is ‘National Child Abuse Awareness Month’ and in the age of Coronavirus and social distancing, community awareness is needed now more than ever. CASA of Hancock County volunteers continue to do their part in helping children at risk of…
SAUCIER, Miss. (WXXV) — A Harrison County woman is facing felony child abuse charges after she was reportedly found smothering her infant daughter. According to Harrison County Sheriff Troy Peterson, 23-year-old Simona Somers was arrested and charged with felonious child…
A former bus driver in St. Martin is facing a year-and-a-half behind bars after being found guilty of child abuse and assault. After two days of trial and only 30 minutes of deliberation, a Jackson County jury found 58-year-old Antoinette…