FELONY CHILD ABUSE SHOCKER: NEWPORT COUPLE CHARGED — BROTHER ERUPTS ONLINE, THREATENS TO ‘SUE EVERYONE’ IN ALL-CAPS MELTDOWN
September 4, 2025
NEWPORT, NC – What began as a horrifying case of alleged felony child abuse has exploded into an online circus. As investigators laid out chilling details of an 11-month-old baby left malnourished and brain-damaged, the accused couple’s brother stormed Facebook with ALL-CAPS threats to “sue everyone” who dared to report on the case. Instead of sympathy for the infant, the family’s defense appears to be denial, intimidation, and a social-media meltdown for the ages.
A shocking felony child abuse case has sent shockwaves through Carteret County, but it’s the unhinged social media tirades of a defendant’s brother that have turned a tragedy into a circus. Logan Laughinghouse, 28, and Autumn Char-Leigh Sproule, 27, are accused of intentionally starving and abusing their 11-month-old child, leaving the baby in a state of brain atrophy, metabolic instability, and severe malnutrition. Instead of silence or remorse, their family is lashing out — and it’s happening in all caps.
ALL PARTIES INVOLVED… WILL BE SUED!”
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– Jackson “Laugh Jack” Laughinghouse, on Facebook
The sworn warrants detail the child’s dire medical state. Doctors described the infant as suffering from life-threatening conditions brought on by intentional neglect. But rather than confront the facts, Jackson “Laugh Jack” Laughinghouse took to Facebook to threaten anyone who dared to cover the case — reporters, community members, even law enforcement officers. His promise? To sue “ALL PARTIES” in an attempt to silence the growing outrage.
The spectacle has been impossible to ignore. While the clinical language of court documents lays out a heartbreaking picture of a baby fighting for life, Jackson’s online rants paint a picture of denial, intimidation, and deflection. At one point, he declared the charges “false with no evidence,” despite a judge signing off on felony warrants supported by sworn affidavits. In another, he bizarrely suggested that “genetic testing” would somehow erase the evidence of starvation.
“False with no evidence!”
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– Brother’s claim, flatly contradicted by sworn court filings
Community members are calling the Facebook tirades a distraction tactic — an attempt to bully critics into silence and shift attention away from the suffering child. Commenters weren’t buying it. “Typing in all caps doesn’t make lawsuits real,” one local wrote, while others blasted the brother’s attacks on the media as a desperate bid to protect the family’s image rather than protect the child.
At the end of the day, no social media meltdown can change the facts: an infant is in critical condition, and two parents are facing felony charges in a court of law. The public may be shocked by the brother’s threats, but the real story remains one of accountability — and whether justice will be served for the smallest and most vulnerable victim.
In the end, no amount of ALL-CAPS Facebook tirades can drown out the chilling reality of a baby’s suffering. While the brother screams about “defamation” and empty lawsuits, sworn warrants, medical records, and the eyes of an outraged community tell the real story. Accountability is not intimidation — it’s justice. And when the smoke from this social media circus clears, the spotlight will remain right where it belongs: on the fate of an innocent child and whether the courts will deliver the justice that hashtags and threats never can.
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