A tragic tale from north Harris County yesterday: A 2-year-old boy drowned in a retention pond near his home while he was apparently searching for a lost puppy. Police believe the boy, Darius Allen, sneaked out of the house — where he was being watched by two siblings, aged 7 and 11, while their parents were at work — and followed the dog through an empty, unfenced lot before he fell into the pond. According...
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Katherine Nadal, the woman accused of cutting her infant son's genitals off and blaming the mutilation on the family dog, made a court appearance yesterday — but police say they still don't have a motive in the case. Not much really happened during the hearing: Nadal, 25, in handcuffs and in tears, told state District Judge Denise Collins that she doesn't have a job and has no money to hire an attorney, so Collins said...
More on the strange case of a baby found mutilated in Webster last month: The AP reports that a Harris County CPS caseworker testified yesterday that he doesn't believe the injuries were caused by a dog, as the infant's mother claimed. "No, I don't believe the dog attacked the child," the CPS's Armando Morin said. "The dog would have had dried blood under its chin, bloody paws. It didn’t have any, animal control said." Five-week-old...
