23-year-old Whitney Wilson of Indiana was originally facing a child abuse charge related to the death of her daughter Cadence Davidson.

The baby suffered a skull fracture, fractured femur and broken ribs. Wilson claims she doesn’t know what happened to the baby.

Whitney and her daughter drove to Bessemer, Alabama Sunday and shortly after she arrived the baby was taken to Children’s Hospital in Birmingham where she died Monday morning after being taken off of life support.

Wilson denies harming the child but her two other children are now in protective custody. Wilson was charged with Murder on Monday.

Alabama, like several other states, contracts out to hire counselors to provide services like Addiction Counseling and Sex Abuse Counseling. 58-year-old Larry Chapman of Hoover, Alabama (just south of Birmingham) is one of those counselors.

In this case Chapman allegedly offered to give a mother a favorable report to regain custody of her children in exchange for sexual favors. He was working as a counselor for DHS when he made the deal with the woman who contacted the Birmingham Police Department.

After an investigation Chapman was arrested Friday at his home in Hoover. Officers from the Birmingham PD, Hoover PD and United States Marshal’s Service showed up at his house for the festivities.

Chapman was lodged in the Jefferson County Jail on charges of Sodomy and Sexual Abuse and held on $65,000 bond.

Two years ago tomorrow, police in Shelby County, Alabama received a 911 call of an “unresponsive person”. When they arrived they found 11-year-old Katherine Helen Gillespie shot in the head and stuffed in a garbage can. Ryan Russell was found lying unconscious in the bathroom and taken to the hospital to be treated.

Just days later 37-year-old Ryan Gerald Russell was arrested for the murder and is still being held without bond in the Shelby County Jail awaiting his trial.

Russell was apparently in the process of adopting Gillespie at the time of her death. The two were adopted cousins and Russell was her legal guardian.

Police haven’t revealed what they consider the motive or reason behind the murder, if there even is one, but from some accounts I’ve come across Ryan Russell was an extremely selfish person who also had drug and alcohol issues. According to a report by NBC 13 back in October 2008 the autopsy report also showed that Katherine had been sexually abused.

22-year-old Justin James Warren Green of Birmingham, Alabama was arrested for Child Abuse last Friday. As a side note, what the hell is up with the two first and two last names? Anyway, as I said Green was arrested last Friday after he allegedly slapped his two-year-old daughter for eating his Pringles.

Someone in the family apparently has at least half a brain because the little girl was taken to St. Vincent’s East last week with a large hand print and abrasion on the left side of her face. The hospital called the law and social service workers. Green also showed up at the hospital but the staff escorted his Pringle-loving ass out of there.

The DA felt like the asshole deserved to have charges filed against him and after he confessed to deputies on Friday that he hit his daughter for eating his Barbecue Pringles he was charged with Willful Abuse of a Child and lodged in the local jail on $10,000 bond. He made bond earlier today. You dumbass, don’t you know you don’t slap people over Barbecue Pringles? Only the sour cream and onion deserve that sort of behavior.

“Pyro’s” MySpace status says “Do WhAt yOu FeEl iN yOuR hEaRt NoT wHaT oThErS mAkE yOu FeEl YoU sHoUlD FeEl” Perhaps you should get some different advice dude like maybe go to anger management classes or something. Perhaps a bit of grammar would help as well the next time you decide to go all philosophical and shit.

25-year-old Dmarcus Antwain Ward of Minden, Louisiana was indicted last week and arrested for Sex Trafficking of Minors as well as Transporting Persons for the Purpose of Prostitution.

Ward has been accused of taking two young girls from Atlanta to Birmingham on several different occasions during 2008 and 2009 for the express purpose of prostituting them out.

The case against Ward is being investigated by the FBI. The trafficking charges carry a minimum sentence of life and the transportation charges have a minimum of ten years.