Among of small number of Republicans who voted on Tuesday was Queens resident Andrew Schiefer. Schiefer brought along his five-year-old daughter to experience democracy—and got a taste of bureaucracy when a NYC Board of Elections worker noticed little Elizabeth's rather bad case of eczema and decided to call the Administration for Children's Services. more ›

According to Queens prosecutors, a couple took in disabled woman last year to help her save money—and then locked her away, took her money, beat her regularly and denied her food and medical care. Oh, and the woman, who is partially paralyzed on the left side, also allegedly had to clean up after the couple's cats and dogs for good measure [PDF]. This is not a happy story. more ›

If Alec Baldwin fell out of favor with you after his in-flight tantrum, then he might just win you back with this. The actor has teamed up with PETA in a new campaign against the Ringling Bros. Circus. In the below four-minute video, he narrates the life of a circus elephant from birth, to being "broken," to getting bullhooked by trainers. The video shows footage of the elephants being tortured by circus employees—footage that is even more disturbing than PETA's original video documenting the abuse, which we published in 2009. more ›

Giants linebacker Michael Boley is being investigated by authorities in Alabama for allegedly abusing his 5-year-old son. According to TMZ, Boley is accused of "the repeated willful abuse of a child under 18 from May 30 to June 5." A grand jury has to decide whether there is enough evidence to formally charge Boley with a crime, but Boley's attorney noted the mother had sued for more money previously, but never sought an order restricting visitation: "She sued him over a year ago for child support. The trial was in October and all she sought was five times the child support," lawyer Randall M. Kessler told the News. more ›

A third victim has accused a longtime assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University of sexually abusing him as a child. Bernie Fine, who has coached at Syracuse for 35 years, has already been accused of molesting family friend Bobby Davis “hundreds of times” over a ten-year period, beginning when he was entering seventh grade, as well as Davis' stepbrother Mike Lang. Now Zach Tomaselli, 23, claims Fine molested him in 2002 in a Pittsburgh hotel room when Tomaselli was 13 years old. more ›

The New Jersey couple who sparked a controversy after they named their kids after famous Nazi leaders say that NJ child welfare officials took custody of their newborn 17 hours after his birth. Nazi-sympathizers Heath and Deborah Campbell say that the doctor who delivered their newborn Hons Campbell late Wednesday called the New Jersey Division of Youth and Family Services (DYFS), who then took the baby without any court order: "It's basically a kidnapping, but they use different terms," said Heath Campbell. more ›

A longtime assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University has been placed on administration leave after being accused of molesting two former ball boys. Bobby Davis, 39, said that coach Bernie Fine, who has coached at Syracuse for 35 years, molested him “hundreds of times” over a ten-year period, beginning in 1983, when he was entering seventh grade. The second alleged victim, Mike Lang, now 45, is Davis' stepbrother, and was also a ball boy for several years—he claims Fine started molesting him in fifth or sixth grade. more ›

Remember Baby Hitler? Then three-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, as well as his siblings JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, were taken from his parents by NJ child welfare officials in 2009 shortly after his parents had tried to get him a personalized birthday cake from ShopRite that read, "Happy Birthday Adolf Hitler." Two years later, the Nazi-sympathizing parents are still trying to get their kids back: "The judge and [the Division of Youth and Family Services] told us that there was no evidence of abuse and that it was the names! They were taken over the children's names," Heath Campbell told NBC 10 News in Philadelphia. more ›

A Far Rockaway woman was stabbed to death early this morning, and police are now hunting for the woman's ex-boyfriend. Police believe that Charlie Mitchell, 53, is responsible for killing the woman, who is described as in her 50s, as well as stabbing the woman's 15-year-old daughter in the face. And neighbors say the couple, who broke up about a month ago, had an abusive relationship in the past: "He beat her up about two or three months ago. Her whole eyes were all black, and she had to wear sunglasses. It's scary. I have a granddaughter," one neighbor told the News. more ›

The Queens woman who admitted to killing her husband was found not guilty of second-degree murder by a jury today. Barbara Sheehan, 50, had argued that she shot her husband Raymond in self-defense, fearing for her life after 17 years of abuse. more ›

James Moss, the 53-year-old, 6'2", 270 pound Staten Island father who burned his 9-year-old son's hands and stuffed him in the oven last year pleaded guilty to the awful crime back in May. The Staten Island DA's office announced the plea and the fact that he will be sentenced on Friday today. Moss faces up to seven years in prison for the attack, but he could get less since his son, Christopher, is expected to urge the judge to be lenient. more ›

The Brooklyn teenager who set his landlord's cat on fire because he was "bored" has been sentenced to six years in prison—and may also be deported. Angelo Monderoy, who was convicted of killing Tommy Two Times in March, also was denied the chance to have his record sealed by the furious Judge: "To torture and kill an animal because you were bored? There's no way the world should not know what Mr. Monderoy did here." more ›

Prosecutors believe they have caught ex-cop Eddy Coello in a series of lies, and have a mountain of evidence to prove he killed his estranged wife Tina Adovasio. The head of the Bronx DA's homicide bureau, Edward Talty, said that Coello had incriminated himself: "We have video surveillance, forensic evidence and statements from the defendants own mouth that the night of March 11 and morning of March 12, after strangling her, he carried her dead body, put it in his car, and dumped her in Westchester County." more ›

A former NYPD housing officer was arrested today, the same day as his estranged wife was being buried in Putnam County. What Eddy Coello, who had a history of terrorizing Tina Adovasio as well as a previous girlfriend, was charged with is unclear, but according to the Post, "A team of eight plainclothes cops hustled a handcuffed Coello out of a side entrance to and brought him to the back seat of an unmarked car with tinted windows and drove off." And a law enforcement source told the Daily News, "It was just a matter of time. Outrageous he ever wore a badge." more ›

Police are still investigating the death of Bronx woman Tina Adovasi, who went missing over a week ago, but many believe they already know who is to blame: former NYPD housing cop, and her ex-husband, Eddy Coello. "We know who did it—he did it. We're working on the chain of evidence and connecting all the dots," a police source told the Post. more ›

Eddy Coello, the former NYPD housing cop who is being called a "person of interest" in the death of his estranged wife Tina Adovasi, met with police yesterday. No charges were filed against Coello, who has a history of domestic incidents, but he adamantly refused to give investigators a DNA sample. "He was asked if he would give a DNA sample. We asked him to look at certain pictures. He refused. And then he left," said Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. This comes as his ex describes her terrifying abusive relationship with him. more ›

The Queens man who burned his girlfriend's face with a hot iron while their three children watched was sentenced to 13 years in prison today. Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory Lasak called Eric Persaud's attack "horrendous and sick," and added, "Your actions are some of the worst I've seen a man do to a woman." more ›

Last week, two men went on trial in separate cases involving the beating and torturing of cats. And yesterday, both men were found guilty of their crimes, and now face years in prison. more ›

Over a year after emergency responders found an unconscious 4-year-old boy in a Crown Heights apartment, his mother has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for his death. Myrna Chenphang, who pleaded guilty to manslaughter last fall, appeared in court today and when she asked to speak to her mother, her mother responded, "You hurt all of us. For what you did there is no forgiveness... Jayden was a joy for me and for all of us." more ›

More details have emerged about the horrifying scene found in Long Island on Friday, when animal control officers rescued more than a dozen dehydrated, emaciated and abused dogs and cats in a squalid Rockville Centre home. Officials found the dogs with their mouths muzzled and wrapped in so much tape they couldn't breathe, bark or eat, and their fur was matted with filth; they also found 26 carcasses of other animals including dogs, cats, ferrets and birds among huge piles of trash which hid the floor. more ›

The highest ranking New York-based priest accused of molestation was found guilty of sexually abusing a teenager by a church tribunal last week. Monsignor Charles Kavanagh, who formerly led St. Raymond's parish in the Bronx, and was the chief fund-raiser for the Archdiocese of New York, was dismissed from the clergy following the guilty verdict on Friday. "I would like to take this occasion to renew our apologies to all those who have been harmed by the sin and crime of sexual abuse, and in particular to the gentleman who was the victim in this case," said Archbishop Timothy Dolan. more ›

In a sickening story echoing several other similar sickening stories, a Brooklyn Rabbi and three of his sons are suspected of sexually abusing four female relatives. Rabbi Gershon Kranczer, 58, has been accused of sexually abusing two underage relatives; the eldest victim, a 20-year-old woman, told a co-worker at a Brooklyn yeshiva that she was sexually assaulted by the rabbi. The co-worker went to police, who soon discovered that three of the woman's relatives, aged 19, 17 and 8, were also abused in the Rabbi's home. more ›

As Ozodoa Khakimov, originally from Uzbekistan, was being prepped for a C-Section at Coney Island Hospital on Friday, workers noticed something strange about her skin. Law officials say workers found words like "bitch" and "whore" carved in Cyrillic all over her body, and she later told the Daily News that her husband "started beating me on the day of our wedding. One time he wrote bad words on my leg, and another time with a key on my neck." more ›

Just as all celebrities deaths come in threes, it seems that pet abuse stories do as well: first, a CT man was accused of "inadvertantly" sexually abusing a horse; then a LI man was accused of sexually abusing Snowball the dog. Completing our terrible triptych today, a Staten Island man stands accused of starving and neglecting two pets over the summer while the owner was attending to a death in her family. more ›