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Adolfo Gomez, 52, and his wife Deborah Gomez, 43, were arrested in Lawrence, Ks., after allegedly leaving two of their five children bound and blindfolded in an SUV in the parking lot of a Wal-Mart store. (Credit: Douglas County Sheriff's Office)

Northlake Mom Gets Probation For Binding, Blindfolding Kids In Kansas

Deborah Gomez, 43, and her husband, Adolfo Gomez, 52, of Northlake, Ill., have been in custody since they were arrested June 13. Police found two of their children, ages 5 and 7, bound by their hands and feet in a Walmart parking lot in Lawrence.

2013/01/16

Tabyus Jackson, 3, was found running on the street in Englewood. (Supplied by Chicago Police)

Mom Charged After Boy Found Alone On Englewood Sidewalk

A young mother has been charged with child endangerment, after her son was found running by himself in the Englewood neighborhood on Monday night.

CBS Chicago–2013/01/15

Britany Meakens, left, and Tatiana Meakens have both been charged with endangering a child in connection with a fatal fire that killed two young kids. (Chicago Police Department)

Prosecutors: Mom And Sister Went To Parties, Leaving 2 Kids To Die In Fire

A young mom and her sister went to parties, leaving their unsupervised children to die in a house fire, prosecutors said.

2012/12/24

Chicago Police vehicle. (Credit: CBS)

Wisconsin Man Arrested After Trying To Leave 3-Year-Old Son At Greyhound Station

A Wisconsin man has been arrested and his 3-year-old son turned over to the state Department of Children and Family Services after he tried to leave the boy with strangers at the Greyhound bus station in the West Loop late Saturday.

2012/11/18

T'Keyah Williams (Credit: Cook County Sheriff's Office)

Woman Charged With Abducting Baby, Leaving It In A Gangway

Chicago police said a South Side woman abducted a baby earlier this week to help out her boyfriend, who had been arrested for another crime.

CBS Chicago–2012/11/17

Tiesha Powell comforts baby Kyan  at Comer Children's Hospital. (Credit: CBS)

Gary Man Arrested After Leaving Children Alone

The boy who fell from his third-story window last month is in foster care with a 5-year-old child after they both were found home alone Saturday morning.

2012/08/14

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Mom Charged With Taping Infant’s Limbs And Mouth

Police say a man didn’t think it was as funny as his son’s mother when she sent him a picture of the 1-year-old boy bound and gagged with tape in southwest suburban Joliet.

2012/07/04

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Police: Kids Were Found In Squalor After Baby’s Death

A Little Village neighborhood couple is charged with child endangerment, in an investigation by police and state welfare agents following the death of their infant son and the discovery of three other children living in squalor.

CBS Chicago–2012/03/22

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Joliet Couple Arrested For Severely Beating 3-Year-Old Boy

Police say a woman waited three days to bring her 3-year-old son to the hospital after she and her boyfriend gave him a severe beating in southwest suburban Joliet.

2011/12/11

Cesar Ruiz, 34, (left) and Crystal Valdez, 28, (right) are charged with murder and concealing a homicide in the death of Valdez's 4-year-old son, Christopher Valdez. (Credit: Chicago Police Department)

Mother, Boyfriend Charged In Death Of 4-Year-Old Boy

A 34-year-old Chicago man has been charged with killing his girlfriend’s 4-year-old son and the boy’s mother has been charged with child endangerment and concealing a homicide in her son’s death.

CBS Chicago–2011/11/27

Marco Santos, 39, was charged with scalding his 2-year-old son with a burning hot frying pan because his son soiled his diaper. (Credit: Cook County Sheriff's Office)

Prosecutors: Man Scalded 2-Year-Old Son Because Of Dirty Diaper

A man became so upset when his 2-year-old son asked him to change his soiled diaper that he scalded the toddler with a burning hot frying pan.

2011/11/15

More than 100 cats had to be put down after they were found in squalid conditions in a home in Berwyn. A teenage boy was also found dead at the home. (Photo credit: Animal Welfare League)

Family Speaks Out About Boy’s Death At Squalid Home

It was an extreme case of animal hoarding. There were hundreds of animals living inside a Berwyn house. A teenager was found dead there and now, for the first time, the family is revealing why they never called for help.

CBS 2–2011/09/20

Lydia Price, 49, has been charged with multiple counts of child abuse, neglect and endangerment, as well as animal cruelty, after her disabled teenage son died at their squalid Berwyn home. More than 200 animals were found in the home and more than half of them had to be put down due to neglect. (Credit: Berwyn Police Department)

Mom Charged After Disabled Boy Dies At Squalid Berwyn Home

A 49-year-old woman has been charged with criminal abuse, neglect and child endangerment after her disabled teenage son died amid squalid conditions in their west suburban home.

CBS Chicago–2011/09/12

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Uptown Father Charged After Baby Left At Archdiocese Building

Child endangerment charges have been filed against the father of a 9-month-old baby who was abandoned at an Archdiocese of Chicago building on the Near North Side Thursday afternoon.

2011/05/14

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Pregnant Mom Charged After Palos Hills Overdose Incident

A pregnant mother has been charged with child endangerment, joining two other people who were charged after one woman died and three people passed out from overdoses in Palos Hills earlier this week.

CBS Chicago–2011/04/02

Sopheap Som (File Photo: Bolingbrook Police Dept.)

Mother Charged With DUI While Kids In Car

A woman had two young children in her car when she was stopped for driving 63 mph in a 45 mph zone while drunk, police said.

2011/01/27

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Grandparents Charged In Death Of 5-Month-Old

The grandparents of an infant boy who died at a northwest suburban hospital last week have been charged with felony child endangerment.

2011/01/07

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Bolingbrook Man Sentenced For Endangering Child

WHEATON (STMW) – A Bolingbrook man was sentenced in DuPage County Circuit Court Tuesday for leaving his 5-year-old daughter alone inside his car while he visited a downtown Naperville nightclub. William T. Gaston, 34, received […]

2010/10/29

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