Bresha Meadows

She will receive mental health treatment and avoid a lengthy prison sentence.

A lawyer for Bresha Meadows, accused of killing her allegedly abusive father, says she is not receiving proper mental health treatment while in detention.

An Ohio judge is considering whether to release Ohio teen Bresha Meadows, 15, who was accused of killing her allegedly abusive father.

Brandi Meadows, Bresha's mother, tearfully spoke about her family's pain. “She is my hero. I wasn’t strong enough to get out and she helped me," Meadows told reporters gathered at her home.

Parents are supposed to protect and provide for their kids. When that doesn’t happen, kids are left to do those things for themselves. That’s the situation 14-year-old Bresha Meadows allegedly found herself in on July 28. According to reports, Bresha is accused of shooting her father, Jonathan Meadows, in the head for allegedly abusing her […]

Fourteen-year-old Bresha Meadows took the life of her father in July. She is currently behind bars on charges of aggravated murder. But Bresha’s family is calling her a “hero,” who saved them all from the verbally and physically abusive Jonathan Meadows. Police allege Bresha shot her father as he slept in their Warren, Ohio home, using the same gun with which […]

Attorney says domestic violence caused a girl, 14, to kill her father. The man's siblings doubt that story.