Child Endangerment

A northwestern Montana woman has pleaded not guilty to a child endangerment charge that alleges she struck a 6-year-old girl as she got off a school bus in November.

In a Great Falls court on Thursday, Eugene Sherbondy was charged with endangering the welfare of children and tampering with a witness or informant. An unidentified man alleged that Sherbondy was involved in the distribution of pills and also “sells his stepchildren...

Q2 reports that a Billings woman faces multiple felony charges for crashing her car while allegedly driving under the influence with two young children in the vehicle.  29-year-old Tiffany Costa was charged in Yellowstone County Justice Court with two counts of felony child endangerment and one count of felony assault on a peace officer...

A man who pepper-sprayed Scheels employees at the mall in 2011 while shoplifting is back in court on a charge of child endangerment.  The Billings Gazette reports that 35-year-old Jesse Ambrose Deaguero pleaded not guilty to criminal child endangerment in district court on Wednesday...

A woman was arrested after striking a light pole with her vehicle in south Billings on Tuesday at around 4:30 p.m.  KTVQ.com reports that 40-year-old Tamra Littlelight fled the scene with her 2-year-old toddler in the vehicle at the time of the crash...

Jeffrey Alan Merritt-Angst, the man charged in the serious head trauma to a 9-week old baby, has admitted during police interrogation to throwing the infant four-to-five feet, causing the child’s head to strike the floor.  He said he’d thrown his girlfriend’s 9-week-old infant toward a bed...

The Billings attorney arrested for driving drunk with her children in the car appeared for arraignment Tuesday by video from a substance abuse treatment center in Minnesota.  39-year-old Michele Lynn Braukmann pleaded not guilty before Yellowstone County District Court Judge Gregory Todd to three felony charges of criminal child endangerment and other charges. As...