A self described "free range" family from Kentucky lost custody of their children in early 2015 when the father threatened a woman with a gun after he tried to steal water from her well. The family lives in a in a makeshift tent without running water, amid heaps of trash, and they prescribe to the "unschooling” method of allowing children to learn through practical life lessons. The father's oldest son released a statement to the press saying that he "fears for [his] sibling's safety."

Hyphern-Kimberly Dorvilier of Pemberton, NJ allegedly doused her newborn daughter with an accelerant and set her on fire in the middle of the road.

An Ohio man was charged with murder after police said that he stabbed his 22-year-old gender nonconforming child to death during an altercation. Although initially, when calling 911, he said that his child had been attacked by "a cult."

A Philadelphia woman was charged with attempted murder after abandoning her quadriplegic son in the woods with a bible so she could spend the week with her out-of-state boyfriend. He was found by a person who saw the wheelchair and thought something was amiss. The son was treated for dehydration, malnutrition, and abrasions and was in stable condition at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, after he was found.

Martin Martinez is a dad who was accused of killing his girlfriend, their six-year-old son, and three other people who were on a camping trip. This comes after he was a Modesto Sherrif's Department suspect in the murder of his stepson by blunt force trauma.

Detroit-based mother, Mitchelle Blair, was sentenced to life in prison for torturing two of her children, ages 9 and 13, to death by making them drink Windex and burning their skin off with scalding water. In a statement to the press she said, "I don't feel no remorse for the death of them demons."

Two Children Die in a Fire While Their Mom Gets Her Hair Did

After being left alone in their Louisiana home, two children (aged four and three) were killed when their house caught on fire. The mother was unaware of this household nightmare because she was away having her hair done.

In Glendale, OR, Stephen Michael Williams Jr. and Amanda Marie Hancock spent the seven short weeks of their son's life filming lactation fetish videos while their newborn deteriorated. Under questioning by police, Williams said that he noticed the baby was losing weight, but never took the child to a doctor because it was his girlfriend’s job to care for the child.

In January, Isaac Seman was arrested for coercing his son into reenacting the sex scenes from Brokeback Mountain with their dog. The rest of the story is beyond disturbing

According to Fox News 13, Mary Miles of Carnation, WA was arrested on January 27 and charged on January 30 for setting up a scheme for her daughter to have sex with a 36-year-old truck driver in exchange for his assistance with rent money. Later, KOMO news reported that the trucker and the mother had agreed to marry after he had sex with her 14-year-old daughter.

A Texas mom was arrested arrested three children drowned in a local pool. According to witnesses, she spent most of the ordeal on her phone rather than helping her kids.

In May, a woman, Vontasha Simms, was observed pushing her son on a swing for two days at Wills Memorial Park in La Plata, Maryland. Prior to the death of her son, Simms had jumped out of a moving cab with the boy in tow.

In China, a mother accidentally locked her child and keys in her BMW, and when the fire department showed up to rescue the child she asked if they could hold off from breaking the window because she didn't want to damage her car.

In Hotlanata, a woman was charged with shooting her four-year-old son in the back. So far, she hasn't given a reason for the assault, but she did waive her first court appearance.

Justin Reynolds and Monique Villescas were charged by the Albuquerque Police Department after they were shot on the same day Reynolds bought a new .45-caliber Smith and Wesson pistol. After purchasing the gun, Reynolds took it back to the motel room where he and Villescas (who was pregnant) were staying with the three year old and their two-year-old daughter. Reynolds left the pistol loaded and ready to fire in Villescas's purse. As one detective wrote in the report, the toddler “discovered the firearm and armed himself.” The three year old fired one shot which penetrated Reynolds’s buttock and exited, passing through Villescas’ upper right arm and embedding itself in the wall behind her.

In this truly heartbreaking story, a father in Tacoma, WA filmed himself cutting off his 13-year-old daughter's hair for "getting messed up.” Days later, she got out of a car and jumped off an interstate bridge. She was taken to a Seattle hospital, but tragically, died the next day.

In February, a Tennessee mother, Jacqueline Alexander, was charged with domestic assault after police said she repeatedly punched her son in the face because he was “too feminine and too gay.”

In February, a Tennessee mother, Jacqueline Alexander, was charged with domestic assault after police said she repeatedly punched her son in the face because he was “too feminine and too gay.”

Hey dads, don't be like this guy who got drunk, took his daughter to Subway for a sandwich, and then forgot about her until the next morning.

Two Georgia parents were charged with killing their infant daughter by diluting the child's milk with water. Watering down the breast milk caused Nevaeh's electrolyte and sodium levels to drop and made her brain swell. When the couple brought their emaciated daughter to the hospital, she was already dead.

A girl in Tennessee was barred from attending her friend's birthday sleepover because her friend is black. In a note to her friend, she wrote, “Maybe I will not be able to go to your birthday sleepover because my dad will not let me go because you are black.”

A woman traveling from Greenville, SC, to New Orleans was arrested in late July for failing to seek medical assistance after noticing that her daughter was unresponsive. She was found under a bridge cradling her daughter whom she said "felt cold."

In Parker, CO a group of students posed with assault rifles and a Confederate flag before their prom, while their parents egged them on and presumably made sure their corsages were in pristine condition.

The Dallas Morning News reported that that 53-year-old Steven Johnson accidentally fired a new gun he was showing to his friends, and that the bullet went through a wall of his home and struck his daughter.