Yesterday afternoon, as a Bronx mother was walking around her double-parked minivan to get her three-year-old son out, a man jumped in and stole the car. Luckily, after 45 minutes, police found the car abandoned around the corner—and with the child safe inside. more ›

Police are investigating the death of a one-year-old boy who was found unconscious in his Bronx home yesterday. Baby Richard Flood was discovered unresponsive by his mother’s boyfriend in the living room floor of a third-floor apartment where he lived on East 232nd Street at 11:25 a.m. Wednesday. Sources told NBC that the boy had a cast on his leg from a broken leg, bruises on his face, and cigarette burns on his arms. more ›

A 13-month-old Bronx boy died early this morning after he swallowed medicine from a prescription pill bottle—and police believe it happened because his parents gave him the pill bottle to play with as a "rattle." more ›

It's bad enough when an adult finds a camera hidden in the bathroom of a Starbucks. But when a five-year-old makes the discovery, it is the stuff of possible trauma—and million-dollar lawsuits. A little girl is suing the coffee chain corporation for compensatory and punitive damages, citing "invasion of privacy, negligence, negligent hiring, training and supervision and intentional infliction of emotional distress" over incident at a Washington, D.C. Starbucks. more ›

Yesterday morning, after a 3-year-old boy was found wandering by himself in Battery Park City's Teardrop Park, the police scrambled to find a relative, distributing his photograph to the media, because the boy couldn't tell the police his name or any identifying information. Now, the boy's been identified... and his mother is in a hospital. more ›

Two adults and a five-year-old boy were all hit by stray bullets in University Heights in the Bronx yesterday evening. It is unclear what caused the shooting at around 8:15 p.m. Friday night, but according to the News, the five-year-old was mindlessly munching on Chicken McNuggets on Grand Avenue with other kids when he was shot in the leg. "Everybody was out here chilling. All of a sudden, I heard the sound of gunshots. I just dived on the floor," said Adam Frias. more ›

Where to start with this one? In a truly bizarre and disturbing sequence of events related to the alleged "Botox Mom" who supposedly injected her 8-year-old daughter, ABC and Good Morning America are getting caught up in a checkbook journalism scandal for agreeing to pay $10,000 for photos of the mom and her child. more ›

The NYPD has a zero-tolerance policy toward students, and hasn't hesitated to cart kids out of school in handcuffs for such offenses as doodling on their desks. But one Queens mother thinks the NYPD went too far when they dragged her 7-year-old son out of his special-ed class in handcuffs. The Daily News reports that Joseph Anderson, a first-grader at P.S. 153 in Maspeth, had been wetting himself throughout the morning on April 13th, and then became upset when he was dyeing Easter eggs and "the color on the egg he was painting didn't look the way he wanted." Yes, it's a sad story. more ›

From what we've gathered, America's chain restaurants just don't understand the difference between alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks. First a 15-month-old was served a margarita at an Applebee's, then a two-year-old was served sangria at an Olive Garden. Today, a Chicago mom is claiming her four-year-old daughter, Brooklyn (or Brooklynn), was served a Mudslide at Chili's. It's never been a better time for toddlers to get their drink on, and as long as they hand over their plastic keys to a designated driver, what's the harm? more ›

Applebee's restaurants around the country have been forced to retrain their staff and enforce new beverage policies after a 15-month-old child was mistakenly served a margarita instead of apple juice. And now it looks like Olive Garden will have to do the same. A Florida mom (video below) says that her two-year-old son was mistakenly served "Tropical sangria," a mixture of juices and white wine, instead of orange juice while the two were dining at the restaurant in March. Now we just need TGI Friday's to pull the same stunt and we'll have a trend! Oh screw it, let's call it a trend anyway. more ›

Three men were arrested for possession of 200 grams of heroin (street value: $20,000) in Jersey City yesterday. The men, who are allegedly part of a wholesale heroin ring, were charged with heroin distribution. Two of them Nelson Alvarado-Jimenez and Geuri Green, both 27 and from Queens, were stopped in a car by Narcotics Task Force detectives, who found "100 grams of heroin and $700 in cash" and "Green's 5-year-old child was in the back seat." The child has been turned over to relatives; Green was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child. more ›

The man accused of stabbing an 8-year-old boy in the back at the Dave & Buster's in Westbury, Long Island has pleaded not guilty to charges including attempted murder. However, prosecutors say that Evan Sachs, 23, was carrying a note explaining his attack—Assistant DA Daniel Looney told the Post, "The note states what his intentions were that evening -- to harm somebody." more ›

A two-year-old was tragically beaten to death on Friday night in his Bed-Stuy apartment after allegedly refusing to recite the alphabet for his mother's boyfriend. The child, Aiyden Davis, was pronounced dead on arrival at Interfaith Medical Center after suffering blunt-impact injuries to his head, torso and extremities, a lacerated liver and internal bleeding. Both his mother, Theresa Davis, and her boyfriend, Reggie Williams, have been arrested. more ›

A 9-year-old boy was rushed to Kings County Hospital last night after being shot in the leg while biking through East Flatbush. His family had just moved to the neighborhood the day before, and the boy had been biking down Church Avenue—a block away from his new home—around 8:30 p.m. He then stumbled on a gunfight. more ›

Despite doctors' attempts to reattach the severed pinky of a 3-year-old boy following an accident on a Macy's escalator last Friday, his finger was eventually amputated. Maxlee Gell-Tejada, of Washington Heights, had been reaching for a dropped water bottle when he caught his finger in the third floor wooden escalator at the Macy's flagship store in Herald Square. more ›

Macy's wooden escalators at the flagship Herald Square location have claimed another phalange: A four-year-old's finger was "sliced off by one of the store's famous old wooden escalators," according to the Post. more ›

An 18-month-old boy is in critical condition after being found floating, face down, in his grandparent's back yard in Staten Island yesterday morning. Robert Helbig, who was being cared for by his grandparents, apparently fell in the pool—which does not have a fence around it—had no pulse and was in cardiac arrest before neighbors started to do CPR. more ›

Yesterday afternoon, a 4-year-old fell two stories after falling down an Upper East Side commercial building's freight elevator shaft. The Daily News reports "her stroller tipped over as her mom pushed it into the lift, officials said," while MyFoxNY says there was a 10-inch gap that the girl fell through while she was pushing a toy stroller. more ›

After falling three stories onto a terrace on Saturday, 2-year-old Ebrahim Aburawi is doing fine at Bellevue Hospital. The child, son of Libyan diplomat Mohamed Aburawi, tumbled out of the 18th floor window after escaping his stroller while his mother was reportedly in the bathroom. However, the Buildings Department has issued a violation to the building's owner for not installing window guards in the apartment, which are required in any apartment where a child under the age of 11 lives. more ›

A 2-year-old boy is in critical condition at Bellevue Hospital after falling three stories from an 18th floor window onto a terrace below yesterday. There are conflicting reports as to how Ebrahim Aburawi, the son of a Libyan diplomat, managed to fall from the window. The Daily News says he broke free of his mother's grasp as she attempted to strap him into a stroller, and "dove out an open window into a free fall." According to the Post, his mother was in the bathroom at the time, and emerged to find her son had fallen. more ›

Yesterday, a 6-month-old baby died after being struck by a falling branch near the sea lion exhibit at the Central Park Zoo. Baby Gianna Riccuitti died almost instantly while her mother Karla DelGallo, who was also struck and hospitalized, is now in stable condition. Witness Trung Tran said he heard a crack, and watched as the branch fell about 40 feet while DelGallo attempted to run away. He told the Daily News, "I heard someone say, 'Watch out!' I heard the branch cracking." more ›

Two children died of smoke inhalation in a house fire in Springfield Gardens, Queens yesterday morning. Tyanthony Duckette, 8, was safely outside the burning home when he ran back in an attempt to save his l17-month-old brother, Daniel Wilson. The children's mother, Sonia Wilson, told WCBS 2, "I just remember yesterday, we were in the park, and we were just playing tag and all having fun, and as I was walking in the street, I was cradling Daniel, and I never thought that would be the last time we would go to the park together." more ›

Police are continuing to investigate the case surrounding a 4-year-old boy who fell to his death from a balcony in Co-op City on Friday night. Though a DOB spokesman said a balcony inspection showed no structural dangers, it turns out management company RiverBay Corp. was late to tell residents to stop their terrace use. A month ago they were ordered to stop balcony use by June 6th, but only told residents to clear off on June 4th. more ›

Last night 4-year-old Malachi Johnson fell 23 stories to his death from the terrace of his Co-op city apartment. Witnesses saw him hit the courtyard, and attempted to help but were blocked by construction fencing. Johnson lived with his mother, who was reportedly in the shower at the time of the incident. According to the Post, the child pushed a chair up to the railing of the balcony, climbed over and fell. One witness told WABC, "She was just screaming and saying Oh God no, Oh God no, that was the mother." more ›

Police have charged parents Karill Savery, 30, and Leonardo Reyes, 34, with endangering the welfare of a child after they left their 8-month-old son in a parking lot on East 161st Street in the Bronx yesterday. Ezra Isiah Reyes, left in a stroller, was spotted by sunglass vendors sitting outside the courthouse, who brought him into the DA's office. Vendor Lorenzo Carse told the Daily News, "I'm a father. How could somebody leave their child like that?" Actually, they simply forgot. more ›

The police released a sketch of a man suspecting of sexually assaulting and briefly kidnapping a 12-year-old girl who was walking to school. On Tuesday morning, before 8 a.m., the girl was grabbed on 67th Street and put in a double-parked SUV, where a man "fondled her over her clothes." Luckily, she was able to get out of the car and tell her parents. The man drove away. more ›

Police say that a Staten Island man was so upset with his 9-year-old son for taking money from his wallet that he burned the child's hands, hit him and stuffed him into the oven, threatening to burn him alive. James Moss, 52, was charged with second-degree assault and endangering the welfare of a child. more ›

A Queens nine-year-old supermodel is one of the highest paid models in the world, earning nearly $250,000 a year. Fatima Ptacek has been modeling since she was five, appeared on SNL and has been in commercials for McDonald's, Bisquick and Pillsbury Toaster Streudel. As if that wasn't enough of a shot to your ego, she is a nationally ranked gymnast, reads at the 10th-grade level, is fluent in Spanish, studies Mandarin and would give up modeling if she could go to an Ivy League college and be a lawyer. Well, at least you don't have to ask permission when you want another juice box, right? more ›

After news broke yesterday that an air traffic controller at JFK airport let his young son clear planes for takeoff five times on February 16th, it emerged that the father did it again the next day with the boy's twin sister. The controller, Glenn Duffy, 48, of Stony Brook, Long Island, has been suspended, along with one supervisor; they'll both draw full salaries during the investigation. The Post has audio of the girl clearing planes for take off—she sounds even cuter than her brother, and a pilot can be heard telling her "nicely done, see you later." Now, these shenanigans may seem reckless to the layman, but professional pilots insist it was all completely harmless. more ›

[UPDATE: This wasn't the first time!] An air traffic controller at JFK airport brought his young son to work last month and let the bright young lad do his job for him. Now the FAA is investigating all the employees who were in the tower that day, and an audio recording of the child's instructions to pilots has surfaced. Listen: more ›