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The article reports that Tafari James, an eight-year-old boy, has been charged with criminally negligent homicide in the death of Amber Sadiq, also eight years old. James released a school bus' emergency break in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in New York City on May 22, 2006. Sadiq was crushed between the rolling bus and a street pole. A description of the hearing held on May 23, 2006 is included.

The article reports that Jovanna Shiriver, resident of Bedford-Stuyvesant, New York City, was charged with reckless endangerment for leaving her child Smiele Oroñez unattended. Shiriver had left 11-month-old Oroñez alone with a 2-year-old aunt in a bathtub, fully filled with water, on July 3, 2007. Oroñez, according to a police spokesman, was listed in a critical condition in Schneider Children's Hospital in New Hyde Park on Long Island, New York.

Reports on the arrest of two brothers, aged eight and nine, on charges of criminally negligent homicide and second degree assault for the death of their four-year-old neighbor in New York City in September 2001.

Reports that a jury in New York City has convicted Tabitha Walrond of criminally negligent homicide in the starvation of her infant son, Tyler. Sentence that Walrond faces; The claim from prosecutors that Walrond let her child starve because she was mad at his father; Efforts by Walrond's lawyers to prove that she was unaware that her breasts were not producing enough milk to keep Tyler healthy; Why the jury chose to convict Walrond of negligence but not second-degree murder.