Eight suspected insurance scammers, including at least three contenders for America's Worst Parents—are now behind bars, with several others presumably still at large.

On Tuesday, Louisiana state police arrested eight of 11 suspects in connection with a fraud scheme that put children in harm's way to cash in on bogus insurance claims. The charges include child endangerment, insurance fraud, and theft.

Upon reviewing crash reports, detectives believe the defendants involved at least six children ranging in age from 1 to 13 years old as occupants in deliberate auto crashes. Sadly, some of these occupants are children of several suspects in custody. Meanwhile, the search continues for Courtney Thierry, Seth Daigle and Niiya Sanders, who are suspected of helping orchestrate a series of auto accidents occurring in 2011 and 2012. The current theory, according to sources, is that two of the crashes involved eight people, whereas another crash involved a total of ten participants.

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