by admin | Sep 20, 2003 | Crime / Courts
Kansas City police are trying a new approach in their efforts to identify Precious Doe – the little girl whose decapitated body was found in a Kansas City park in April of 2001. They’ve unveiled a soft-clay bust built over the youngster’s skull. It...
by admin | Sep 19, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A third sexual abuse lawsuit has been filed against former Kansas City Catholic priest Hugh Monahan. Monahan was a priest for 20 years in Kansas City. He served nine parishes. The diocese says Monahan left the diocese, and the priesthood, in 1989. In the latest...
by admin | Sep 12, 2003 | Crime / Courts
A man who tortured and sexually abused a three-year-old Independence old boy before he died has been given two consecutive life prison terms. Witnesses in Byron Griffin’s trial say the boy had been beaten with a ping-pong paddle, burned on the genitals with a...
by admin | Sep 11, 2003 | Crime / Courts
All charges have been dropped against a Springfield nurse charged with failure to report child abuse in the Dominic James case. Her lawyer says a circuit judge has ruled the state law on which the charges were based is unconstitutional. The Greene County prosecutor...
by admin | Sep 10, 2003 | Politics / Govt
The state is getting an ombudsman to watch over children in foster care. She’s Mary McEniry who has been the Director of the Child Advocacy Center in the Jackson County Family Court System. She’ll work with the Office of Administration, not the State...
