The parents also are charged with
aggravated battery, domestic battery and failure to report a missing child or child death.
Khalid Adem, an immigrant from Ethiopia whose culture practices female circumcision, was convicted of
aggravated battery and cruelty to children, and was sentenced to fifteen years in prison.
TEXAS Rangers relief pitcher Frank Francisco (right) has been charged with
aggravated battery after throwing a chair into the stands at Oakland A's and hitting a female fan in the face.
A 34-year-old passenger on a Southwest Airlines aircraft has been charged with
aggravated battery and resisting arrest.
Police charged Lynda Taylor (36) of Stuart, Florida, with
aggravated battery. David Taylor, aged 46, is disabled due to allergies which his doctors say were the result of exposure to hazardous chemicals as a construction worker.
First, lawmakers have added
aggravated battery and felony battery as predicate convictions and narrowed the threshold for the statute's application to require only one prior conviction rather than the two previously required.
These girls were two to four times more likely than other girls to report violent behavior, including robbery with a weapon,
aggravated battery violent dispute resolution, group fighting, and attempted suicide.
Strickland, 38, pleaded guilty Thursday to
aggravated battery. He accepted a sentence of nine years in prison.
Corrections officers Adrian Victor Mathew Puckett, 27, and Kurtis Mitchell, 31, were charged with
aggravated battery and principal to
aggravated battery respectively, for an incident that took place inside the facility on Jan.
Patterson, who has a history of domestic incidents, has been charged with
aggravated battery of an infant and aggravated assault.
