FARGO (KFGO) — A Fargo couple are now charged with felony child abuse after police investigated them for suspected child neglect last summer. A Fargo Police report says Wyatt Lesmann and Vanessa Metzger-Prebil brought their 3-month-old girl to the hospital last May for reported fussiness and changes in mood and behavior. Medical staff found the child had broken ribs and…
TOKIO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Tokio, North Dakota man pleads guilty to involuntary manslaughter, two counts of child neglect and assault of a child with a dangerous weapon. Austin Lester, 29, is charged with the neglect and death of a three-year-old child on the Spirit Lake Reservation in August 2022. Lester’s co-defendant Krissy Hinsley was also charged with Involuntary Manslaughter…
FARGO (KFGO) – A Fargo couple are facing a list of charges following a year-long investigation for allegedly operating a drug trafficking operation out of their in-home daycare. Cara and Joshua Aus are charged with several felonies for drug possession, and child abuse and neglect. Court records say Fargo Police began investigating the couple in April 2024 after receiving a…
Donald Lantz, left, speaks with his attorney John Balenovich as his wife Jeanne Whitefeather, right, leaves the courtroom in Kanawha County Circuit Court in Charleston, W.Va. on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025. (Christopher Millette/Charleston Gazette-Mail via AP)CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia couple accused of neglect and forced labor involving their adopted children was convicted by a jury on Wednesday after eight…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A Tokio, North Dakota woman makes her first federal court appearance after being indicted for backing over a man with three kids in her car. A grand jury indicted 30-year-old Tierra Scott for involuntary manslaughter and three counts of child neglect in Indian country. Scott is accused of being under the influence on August 17 when…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR) — Three people from the Red Lake Indian Reservation have been sentenced for child neglect and endangerment. Between February 2022 and January 2023, 55-year-old Robin Roy, 29-year-old Nicole Roy, and 36-year-old Harrison Dudley Sr., willfully deprived minor victims of necessary food, health care, and supervision. One of the victims suffered from severe anemia as a result of…
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (KVRR) — A man from the Red Lake Reservation has been sentenced to five years and two years supervised release for one count of felony child neglect after the death of a child. According to court documents, 41-year-old Julius Fineday deprived the child of necessary food, clothing, shelter, health care, and supervision. The U.S. Attorney says the neglect…
FARGO (KVRR) – A couple from Tokio, ND, was charged with child neglect and involuntary manslaughter in the death of a three-year-old child. 28-year-old Austin Lester and 25-year-old Krissy Hinsley appeared before the U.S. District Court in Fargo. This stems from a case in August 2022 where the child died within the boundaries of the Spirit Lake Reservation. Both pled…
MINNEAPOLIS (KVRR) — A federal jury has found Bobbi Jo Johnson, also known as Bobbi Jo Kingbird, guilty of child neglect and child endangerment on the Red Lake Indian Reservation. The 46-year-old Red Lake woman was convicted of crimes that happened between January 2021 and April 2022. The victim was a child in the foster care of her sister and…
FARGO, N.D. (KVRR) — A West Fargo in-home daycare provider is sentenced to just under one year behind bars for child neglect. 42-year-old Miranda Sorlie entered Alford pleas to two counts of child neglect, seven other charges were dropped. An Alford plea means Sorlie maintains her innocence but admits that evidence could find her guilty. She was given 360 days…
