After prosecutors Thursday charged an imprisoned sex offender with the 2004 rape and murder of 3-year-old Riley Fox, some residents of Wilmington, where the family lived, said they hoped that this will help end a very painful chapter for all those involved.
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The Chester County Prosecutor’s office has announced the arrest of a Kennett Square Police Officer. He has been charged with over 500 counts of sexual assault.
54-year-old Jose Manuel Santiago has been charged with rape, aggravated indencent assault, statuatory sexual assault and other first degree felonies after being investigated by the Chester County Detectives Child Abuse Unit.
In a written statement, officials say the incidents allegedly occurred with multiple victims between 1991 and 2000 involving victims as young as ten with abuse continuting into the victim’s teenage years.
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The parents of an 8-year-old boy found hog-tied with duct tape and tied to a coffee table have been indicted on a series of charges.
Cuyahoga County, Ohio prosecutors say 37-year-old Andreia Huffman and her husband, 32-year-old Jason Dunikowski, are responsible for one of the worst cases of child abuse they have ever seen, Fox8News reports.
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http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/28/ohio-couple-duct-taped-son-hit-count-indictment/
A married couple who both admitted guilt to parental incest were each sentenced today in Clark County District Court.
Judge James M. Bixler sentenced Frederick Vonseydewitz to eight to 20 years in prison and his wife, Mary Vonseydewitz, was sentenced to four to 20 years. They each had pleaded guilty to charges stemming from allegations of sexually abusing their children, a boy and a girl, when they were minors.
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http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/may/27/man-woman-get-20-years-incest-case/
The INDIANA family of a 14-year-old boy allegedly abused by fellow student-athletes in a locker room and on a school bus is planning to sue an Indiana school district for $2.2 million.
The boy, who is not identified in court records because of his age, was the alleged victim of several instances of sexual abuse and harassment by varsity basketball players at Carmel High School in Carmel, Indiana.
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INDIANAPOLIS — A woman was arrested Wednesday evening on two felony battery charges after she abused her children in a fit of rage, police said.
Officers said that Alisha Foster, 21, was arguing with the father of the children, Dustin Dodd, 21, over the phone when she became very upset, grabbed two kitchen knives and attacked her 2-year-old son, leaving him with contusions on his head and face and choke marks on his neck.
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An Elgin man is scheduled to appear in court Thursday on charges he sexually abused three children younger than 13, authorities said.
Jose L. Jaramillo, 58, of the 300 block of North Jackson Street, faces seven counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and one count each of child exploitation and predatory criminal sexual assault.
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BREAKING NEWS– The body found partially submerged in an irrigation ditch has just been identified as missing 12-year-old girl Kayleah Wilson.
The body of 12-year-old Kayleah Wilson, who vanished as she headed to a friend’s birthday party, is found in a flooded irrigation ditch just a mile from home.
Nancy Grace investigates, 8 & 10 p.m. ET on HLN.
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LISBON, Portugal — A new witness has come forward saying he saw Madeleine McCann only hours after she disappeared in 2007.
Carlos Moreira, 65, told detectives that on the morning of May 4, 2007, he saw a blond girl sitting in the back of a truck, wearing pajamas similar to those worn by Madeleine the night she vanished.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-madeleine-maddy-mccann,0,618953.story
A teenage girl in Garland, fearing she would be harmed, waited nearly five months to accuse a teaching assistant of raping her in January, according to a court document.
Dennis Connor, 27, of Garland, was being held Wednesday at Dallas County jail, with bail set at $25,000, jail records showed. He is charged with aggravated sexual assault of child.
SPRINGFIELD – Police arrested a 23-year-old city man Tuesday night in connection with the rape of a 15-year-old girl in the city’s Forest Park neighborhood, police said.
Freddi Garcia of 14 Winnipeg St. was charged with a single count of rape of a child said, Sgt. John M. Delaney, aide to Police Commissioner William J. Fitchet.
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http://www.masslive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/05/freddi_garcia_of_springfield_c.html
WOBURN – A gymnastics coach has been convicted in the rape of one of his former students.
Steven Infante, of New Milford, Conn., was found guilty of rape of a child Wednesday by a jury in Middlesex Superior Court. Infante was scheduled to be sentenced late Wednesday.
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Children severely injured or sexually molested, the helpless victims of child abuse and neglect – the cases still haunt Alex Gardner, the Lane County district attorney. He calls child abuse the biggest local crime problem in Lane County (Eugene, OR).
“I’d say it’s right at the top of our list of concerns,” he said. “Children are our most precious resource and harm done to them early on is harm that tends to be reflected through their lives.”
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