The boys' parents, 24-year-old Nickella Reid and 27-year-old Joseph Miller, were arrested Friday after Reid took her year-old son to the hospital with burns. She said he was scalded the day before Thanksgiving by Miller, her boyfriend... Reid told police that Miller killed another son, Deante Miller, in March 2006, while Miller said he died of natural causes. Miller also denied scalding the younger boy, authorities said.
Authorities say the couple then burned the body in a barbecue grill—to save on funeral costs, they claimed—and hid what was left of the remains in the ceiling of a home once occupied by Miller's sister... She said that the surviving boy was severely abused, with burns over one-third of his body. He was in fair condition at a Children's Hospital of Michigan, authorities said.
Reid's four other children were placed in foster care, authorities said.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — A teenager charged in the horrifying gang rape and beating of a woman and her son agreed to a plea deal Monday that will send him to prison for 20 years.
Jakaris Taylor, 16, pleaded guilty to sexual battery and burglary and will testify against three other teens charged in the June attack, according to the state attorney's office. He will be credited for 130 days already served.
Three other teens — 18, 17 and 14 — face charges including sexual battery, kidnapping and burglary. They could face life sentences if convicted.
A woman told police that as many as 10 masked teens accosted her and her 12-year-old son in their apartment in a housing project.
The teens are accused of raping and sodomizing the mother, forcing her at gunpoint to perform oral sex on her son, and beating both of them. The assailants then doused them with cleaning solutions in an attempt to destroy evidence, police said.
Taylor's lawyer, Chris Haddad, told The Palm Beach Post that the teen has expressed remorse and regret.
GOLDEN — Herbert P. Beck, 57, of Lakewood pleaded guilty today to one count of extortion in connection with an alleged plot to kill a debtor with rattlesnakes.
Beck and Christopher Steelman, 34, of Lakewood have been charged with trying to kill Matthew Sowash, owner of the Amateur Poker Tour in Wheat Ridge, because he owed them $60,000, court documents show.
Investigators said Steelman told them the two men discussed ways to kill Sowash and that Beck suggested building a wooden box to hold rattlesnakes with a lid designed to hold Sowash's legs inside.
The Jefferson County district attorney's office also charged both men with conspiracy to commit murder and conspiracy to commit kidnapping. Those charges have been dismissed.
Beck pleaded guilty to extortion for threatening to do things such as the snakes in a box and kidnapping Sowash's children to use them as leverage to get the money.
CAMDEN, South Carolina — A man whose hand got caught in a corn harvester cut off his own arm with a pocket knife after the machine started a brush fire.
"I just told myself, 'I'm not going to die here,'" Sampson Parker said Monday on NBC's "Today Show."
"I just kept fighting, kept praying. And then when I did get loose, I jumped up running, I had blood squirting from my arm," he said of the September incident. "It was pretty scary there for a while."
Parker, a construction supervisor in Kershaw County about 20 miles (32 kilometers) east of Columbia, farms as a hobby. When he tried to remove a cornstalk stuck in the rusty harvester, his hand became stuck.
"I went up with my hand, and the roller that takes the shucks off the corn had grabbed the glove and pulled my hand into the rollers," he told WIS-TV in Columbia.
Parker called for help, but no one was around.
After about 90 minutes, his hand went numb. He jammed a rod into the machine and started cutting away his fingers, but the rod and machine sparked a fire. He used his free hand to fight the fire but knew he was in even more trouble.
"My skin was melting," he said. "Like melting plastic."
It was then that he cut off his arm to free himself.
"I could feel the nerves as I was cutting my arm off," he recalled.
Parker ran to his truck and drove to the front of his home about the time firefighter Doug Spinks passed by. Spinks wrapped Parker's arm and called for help.
Parker said he is doing fine now and has tried to put the ordeal behind him.
"It really wasn't the corn picker's fault. It was my fault. It was just a mistake I made," he said.
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