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Prosecutors say video shows Marine Corps veteran abusing stepson
NBC News· 2025-07-18 20:00
42-year-old Zachary Perez can be seen in this home surveillance video wearing black, holding a pink dog leash that police say is wrapped around the neck of his six-year-old stepson. The recorded video that was blurred by the state attorney's office shows several incidents like in this bedroom where Perez is seen kicking the boy again, telling him to put his shoes on and using an expletive. He kicked the victim in the stomach, causing him to fall backward, and struck him in the with a tree branch, causing an ...
15 kids born via surrogates taken into protective custody from a CA home
NBC News· 2025-07-16 19:27
More than a dozen kids were found in a couple's California home, and police say they were all from surrogate mothers. Investigators were tipped off when a two-month-old was taken to the hospital with a head injury. When police went to check out the baby's home, they found 15 kids inside, and cops say indoor cameras showed cases of physical and emotional abuse by nannies caring for the kids.Those children are now in protective custody, while six others were in the care of family or friends of the couple. Now ...
California couple found raising 21 children birthed by surrogate mothers
NBC News· 2025-07-16 16:07
15 children taken from this home in Arcadia, including a baby born in Texas to this surrogate mother. The FBI, um me and some of the other girls that I'm talking to are currently working with them. I completed like a three-hour interview with them a couple weeks ago.Kayla in an interview with the executive director of the Center for Bioeththics and Culture says she thought she was carrying a baby for a couple struggling to have a child, Sylvia Zang and her husband, only to find out months after she gave bir ...