13 h. ago Girl, 3, beaten to death by other kids as mum leaves eight of them to go gambling

Blessing Buckles, three, was left with seven other children unattended in a home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, when her mum Dineshia Yates and her friend Terica Scott went to a casino

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50 h. ago Moment drunk mum glasses best pal in face four times leaving her scarred for life

Ebony Jones struck Megan Smith four times with a half pint glass in a boozy bar attack after a row about a dog, leaving her victim needing 41 stitches and scarred for life

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64 h. ago Scots mum's swim in contaminated water leaves her hospitalised for five days

Shelley Sim became seriously unwell after swimming in the sea, which has left her fearful.

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3 d. ago Mum laughs as she leaves court after 'taking law into own hands' with 'brutal assault'

Hollie Weston, 26, told police officers she had punched her victim Alfie Broadfield-Mellor and "caused him to bleed" but added ominously, "it could have been worse"

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3 d. ago Mum 'went home to take a bath leaving daughter, 4, to die in submerged car' after crash

The 26-year-old mother allegedly had a blood alcohol level "nearly three times" above the legal limit after crashing her Subaru SUV into a canal and leaving her daughter for dead in the backseat

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6 d. ago It’s wrong to tell off other people’s kids – it leaves me fuming as a mum

So many people take it upon themselves to lay down the law with other people’s kids. Enough is enough, says Charlotte Cripps. We need to be able to hold it back for emergencies where genuine harm is going to come to someone

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7 d. ago Drunk young mum glassed best friend at busy club, leaving her needing 41 stitches, after a row about a dog

Ebony Jones, 26, shattered a half pint glass across the face of Megan Smith at a bar in Caerphilly causing her to need 36 stitches to her face and five more to her nose.

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8 d. ago Paedo 'manipulated' mum so she'd leave him alone with naked child who called him 'dada'

A twisted pedophile who failed to tell his new partner that he had previously been caught with child abuse images – and was left alone with her child – now faces more time in jail

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8 d. ago Paedo 'manipulated' girlfriend into leaving him alone with tot who called him 'dada'

He was jailed after failing to inform his new girlfriend he was a registered sex offender, which saw him left alone in the home with her naked two-and-a-half-year-old son.

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8 d. ago Paedo 'manipulated' girlfriend into leaving him alone with toddler who called him 'dada'

Pervert Gary Cookson was jailed after failing to inform his new girlfriend he was a registered sex offender, which saw him left alone in the home with her naked two-and-a-half-year-old son

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2 w. ago My beloved mum gave me a letter 25 years ago and told me: 'Read it when I'm gone'. What she'd written both broke and comforted me: MARIANNE JONES

Today marks Marianne Jones's first Mothering Sunday since losing her mum. Despite her grief, she will be concentrating not on what she's lost but on what she had

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2 w. ago 'Whatever your age, losing a mother you love leaves you forever looking for a hand to hold': Marianne Jones on the first Mother's Day since her Mum died

Today marks Marianne Jones's first Mothering Sunday since losing her mum. Despite her grief, she will be concentrating not on what she's lost but on what she had

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