When officers arrived on the scene, they found Kristy DeHuff covered in blood and little Drake with a slit throat and two stab wounds to the upper torso.

Martin Richter, 48, was arrested in Big Bear City in connection with an ongoing child molestation investigation. Investigators are concerned there may be additional victims.

Milford, MA – An 18-year-old teen has been arrested for forcible rape of a 5-year-old boy he was babysitting. According to the criminal complaint filed, Nehemiah Gonzalez admitted to detectives that he forced the boy to perform oral sex on him. Authorities decline to say how long the abuse lasted.

PHOENIX (AP) – The last of 4 convicted child molesters who fled from a Mesa halfway house in August has been returned to the U.S. from Mexico.

Monday, February 8, The Oprah Winfrey Show is airing an all new episode that every parent needs to see.

NEW JERSEY — Six sorority girls from Rutgers University are in hot water for apparently putting pledges through eight days of torture, authorities said.

NORTHRIDGE — Police in Northridge are handing out a composite sketch of a sexual predator who tried to kidnap and assault a woman in broad daylight.

FOREST HILLS, N.Y. (WPIX) – A 12-year-old student was arrested and quickly branded a delinquent after she apparently doodled her name on a classroom desk.

NEW YORK — Police say a 9-year-old autistic boy has been found dead and his mother near death in a room at a luxury midtown Manhattan hotel.

St. Petersburg, FL (The Weekly Vice) – Brandon Hood, a 21-year-old St. Petersburg man has been jailed after he reportedly accidentally shot a 4-year-old girl he was baby-sitting in the head with a BB gun, causing possible permanent injuries.

San Antonio, TX – Deputies responded to Elyse Colon’s home Tuesday evening after receiving a 911 call from that address. When they arrived, Colon was standing in the front yard, covered in blood. “I just killed my babies,” she calmly remarked.

BELLPORT, N.Y. – On Jan. 15, school bus driver Norman Besemer, 61, was driving students home from Frank P. Long Intermediate School when several students on the bus began acting up.

Wlaschin’s work computer was seized and is being examined by SLED. He has been charged with second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor and and fired from his two year job as a deputy. Bond has been set at $100,000.

These are the faces of Babies Looking for a Home, a newly launched Web site that aims to reconnect 60 children rescued from abduction with their families. Many of the young victims have no memory or knowledge of who and where their families are.

In advance of the Who’s Super Bowl halftime performance this Sunday in Miami, Pete Townshend has answered a local group of advocates that handed out flyers and postcards that suggested the legendary rock guitarist was a threat to area children.

Berlin – Nearly 100 employees of the Catholic Church have been suspected of involvement is sexual abuse during the last 15 years, German media reported Saturday.

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New data has shown child abuse and neglect in Australia has increased over the past year, but child protection groups say the problem’s likely to be even worse than the figures say.

For Cumberland County’s rapidly rising child-abuse rate. In the second half of 2009, child abuse reports were up 32 percent. That is a horrific number that should shock the community and galvanize an effort to reverse it.

Federal Families Minister Jenny Macklin says she is horrified by new figures that show a large increase in the number of children having to be removed from their families because of abuse and neglect.

When she started working at Ottawa County Job and Family Services six years ago, Hawkins managed 15-20 cases at a time. Now it’s not uncommon for her to juggle 30. Initial consultations with new clients used to be scheduled within a day or two.

GRAND RAPIDS (WZZM)- The state of Michigan’s economy has lead to an increase in poverty, abuse and neglect of children, according to the latest Kids Count report released Tuesday.

In 2001, 18,504 children were reported as abused or neglected and referred for investigation
in Arkansas, a rate of 27.1 per 1,000 children.

Adair County has one of the highest rates of child abuse and neglect out of 114 counties in Missouri, according to a recent report released by Citizens for Missouri’s Children, a non-governmental advocacy organization that acts as a watchdog for the rights and well-being of children.

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Hours after Stephen Garcia and his 9-month-old son’s bodies were discovered on a San Bernardino hiking trail, dead from an apparent murder-suicide, his Facebook profile announced activity: Stephen Garcia had uploaded a suicide note and video tribute to his family.

More allegations of child sexual abuse are piling up against William Allan Jacobs, the 66-year-old former captain in the Minneapolis Park Police Department we’ve been telling you about after he was charged Jan. 22 with sexually abusing a 15-year-old boy.

Police in Tempe, Ariz., arrested a woman they are calling a “person of interest” in the disappearance of an 8-month-old boy she and her husband wanted to adopt.

Ontario – Almost a year ago, a forum member posted a story about a 24-year-old woman from Ontario who was charged with sexually assaulting her 2-year-old son and pet dog while broadcasting the acts over the Internet via a webcam.

The images show young children, many of them infants and most of them under the age of 5, being sexually exploited in ways the average person couldn’t even begin to fathom.