Charles Rothenberg set his sleeping 6-year-old son on fire in 1983. Now he's back in court.

Charles Rothenberg, who has legally changed his name to Charley Charles, had admitted possessing a loaded .38-caliber revolver and dozens of rounds of ammunition, ...

FILE--Charles Rothenberg, who was paroled in 1990 after serving six years for setting fire to his son, sits in his apartment in Oakland, Calif., May 31, 1994.

Charles Rothenberg`s rehabilitation, meanwhile, has been quite different. According to Kindel, he has worked in prison landscaping and on trash pickup chain gangs.

Charles Rothenberg, who was among California's most despised criminals after he set fire to his young son in 1983, has been arrested in San Francisco on charges including theft, fraud and ...

”Charles Rothenberg, I sentence you to nine years for attempted murder, three years for willful intent to do great bodily injury, and a year for committing a felony within five years of a prior ...

Charles Rothenberg, the man who set his son on fire in a Southern California motel room seven years ago, surfaced Thursday for the first time since his parole, saying he lives in Oakland, Calif ...

SANTA ANA – A man who set his 6-year-old son on fire in a BuenaPark motel two decades ago was sentenced Friday to seven years andfour months in prison on a weapons charge.Prosecutors had hoped ...

Harry J. Gaynor admits he spent many restless nights wondering whether he should have anything to do with a book about Charles Rothenberg, the former New York waiter who spent almost seven years ...

In 1983, Dave’s father, Charles Rothenberg, took the then-6-year-old on a trip to Southern California from New York, where the boy was living with his mother.

In 1983, Dave’s father, Charles Rothenberg, took the then-6-year-old on a trip to Southern California from New York, where the boy was living with his mother.