In Commonwealth v. Santos, a case of first impression, the Appeals Court reversed the dismissal of the complaint charging the defendant with reckless endangerment of a child under G.L. c.265, §13L, which was based on the defendant’s inadequate supervision of her daughter. The application for a complaint alleged as follows.…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a Holliston man was recently arrested for slapping his four year old son. The article states that the defendnt was on a supervised visit with his two children – the alleged victim and his older brother, who is seven years old.…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a Framingham man, was arrested after physically disciplining his son. The child, who is seven years old, bit one his teachers at his school. Following the incident, the defendant, the child’s father, reportedly destroyed the child’s video game system. The child’s…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a German au pair who has been charged with assaulting the three year old boy that she cared for has filed a criminal complaint against the child’s father. The au pair was reportedly caught on camera shoving the boy to the…
According to an article in the MetroWest Daily News, a seventeen-year-old boy from Sudbury was charged with enticing a child under the age of sixteen. The article states that a resident from Skyview Lane called the police around 3:30pm this past Wednesday. The caller stated that a person in a…
The Springfield Republican recently published an article about the arrest of a man this past Friday by the Holyoke Police Department. The man is a bus driver who transports students in Holyoke. At the time of his DUI arrest last friday he was driving children to their homes as a…