No one involved with the court case against Diana O'Neill disagrees that the teacher hit her severely developmentally disabled students in the head with water bottles, boards and binders. ...more

February 13, 2009

The paramour of a woman accused of brutally beating a teenager and keeping him locked in a bathroom for two years was arrested Thursday on similar charges. ...more

February 13, 2009

Hernando County deputies returned today to the Spring Hill home where a 16-year-old boy was beaten and locked in a bathroom and arrested a man they say contributed to the abuse. ...more

February 12, 2009

A Spring Hill woman was arrested Tuesday on charges that she locked a teenage boy in a bathroom for two years and beat him with a plank of wood. The 16-year-old managed to escape Monday and go to a neighbor's house for help. A responding deputy said he found the boy covered in bruises and cuts. ...more

February 12, 2009

The children in Diana O'Neill's special education class started their mornings like many other students. ...more

February 11, 2009

A Plant City man was arrested after he told officers he bit his 11-month-old daughter because she was biting people and he wanted to teach her a lesson, police say. ...more

February 11, 2009

Authorities say a Sarasota father who admitted taking tranquilizers let his 8-year-old son drive the car in a parking lot, where the boy almost hit two people and struck two trees. ...more

February 10, 2009

A Lake Placid woman charged with murdering her newly delivered infant child entered into a plea agreement Monday. ...more

February 10, 2009

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February 9, 2009

Nearly every day since September, the 10-year-old girl was repeatedly beaten with a belt because she didn't finish her chores fast enough, according to a Pasco County Sheriff's Office report. ...more

January 31, 2009