A dangerous pedophile at the center of an international child sex abuse ring has been jailed for a minimum of seven years for raping a 10-year-old boy.

Gareth Hulme, from Manchester, was given an indeterminate sentence for various sex offences, including two counts of rape against a child.

The 25-year-old attacked the boy on successive nights at a festival in Cheshire last summer, luring him away to walk his dog in woods.

Hulme, who worked as a security guard, also lurked internet chatrooms to groom other victims.

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A 90-year-old Australian man has been arrested in Thailand and charged with raping and sexually abusing four young sisters, one of them as young as five, police said.

Officers said Karl Joseph Kraus allegedly lured the children, now aged seven to 14, to his home with imported chocolates and English lessons. The alleged abuse started two years ago.

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OWEN SOUND, Ont. — A 68-year-old Grey-Bruce man who forced his young stepchildren to live in a “dungeon” beneath the carport floor for about three years and sexually and physically abused them was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

The shocking details of the man’s crimes between May 2004 and June 2007 were contained in a Superior Court of Justice decision released Monday, following a jury trial last winter.

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Two more men filed lawsuits today against the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, alleging a former Hastings priest sexually abused them when they were in grade school, their attorney said.

One boy told his Guardian Angels school principal in Hastings that the Rev. Thomas Stitts was abusing him, said Patrick Noaker of Jeff Anderson and Associates. He was about 10 at the time. It was about 1967.

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TROUBLED pop star BRITNEY SPEARS faces a probe into allegations that she abused her two young sons.

Social workers will quiz her over claims she beat one with a belt and gave both food they were allergic to – making them violently ill.

19-year-old John McGurl has pleaded guilty to sexual abuse involving children that lived just down the street from him.

Police say McGurl abused several children in the Parkway Village Neighborhood near Germantown last summer.

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Editor’s note: The following article contains graphic descriptions of violence and abuse that many readers are likely to find disturbing. Reader discretion is advised. An 8-year-old boy testified Monday that his mother’s boyfriend abused him and his 4-year-old brother almost since the day they moved in with the former Tyrone Township man.

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Most detectives get into the industry to solve burglaries, homicides and other major crimes, but recently, Benson Police Detective Brian Williams’ caseload has been filled with sexual assault crimes against children.

Some of these crimes involve a parent or grandparent having sex with their daughters and granddaughters. Others are even more alarming, as social networking and texting allows predators to find young victims and manipulate them into having sex.

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A Florida teacher convicted of having sex with two of her students, was called a sexual predator today by a judge who sentenced her to 10 years in prison.

Stephanie Ragusa, wearing an orange jumpsuit, cried at one point during her sentencing hearing, but nodded her head in approval as Circuit Judge Chet Tharpe also imposed five years of sexual offender probation on the 31-year-old defendant.

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The suspected beating of a 3-month-old Jacksonville girl who remained hospitalized Monday in intensive care has prompted a judge to place her and three siblings in protective custody.

The infant — who also tested positive for marijuana — was being treated for several skull fractures and a small amount of brain hemorrhaging, according to preliminary hospital tests.

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WHEATFIELD — An 18-year-old who had a three-year sexual relationship with an adult woman while he was underage is suing the woman and her husband, seeking $22 million.

But the husband is fighting back with a counterclaim, accusing the teenager of interfering with his “marital contract” — in effect seeking damages for allegedly seducing his wife.

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Portland, OR – I really wish I was updating this story to tell you all that Kyron has been found – sadly, that isn’t the case. I do, however, want to keep this story updated and continue to keep the kiddo’s picture circulating. Though family members and investigators have remained fairly tight-lipped throughout the investigation, there have been a couple of interesting new developments in the case. Kaine Horman, Kyron’s father, has taken the couple’s 18-month-old daughter and vacated the home he shares with Terri Horman, Kyron’s step-mother.

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A former girls soccer coach from Duxbury was found guilty Monday of raping one of his 15-year-old players who was at his house for a sleepover with his daughter in 2004.

Following a five-day trial in Brockton Superior Court, a jury found Jose M. Arana guilty of rape of a child with force and two counts of indecent assault and battery of a person over the age of 14.

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS/AP) In addition to hosting underage parties fueled by alcohol and drugs, a 61-year-old retired doctor is accused of raping one of the 16-year-old party-goers at gunpoint.

A judge ruled Friday that there was enough evidence to charge Tawfik Nakishbendi with unlawful contact with a minor, unlawful restraint, recklessly endangering another person, and possession of an instrument of crime.

The Philadelphia-area man the teens referred to as “Sugar Daddy” was arrested Thursday after police received an anonymous tip earlier this month regarding a man providing drugs and alcohol to teens in exchange for sex, reports Philly.com.

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PITTSBURGH– A Greenfield man has pleaded guilty to abducting and raping an 11-year-old girl as she walked home from school last year.Clyde Haidle, 47, was arrested in May 2009, just hours after he grabbed the victim after she got off of her school bus and dragged her into an abandoned home on Ivondale Street.

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A McMinnville man was arrested Friday on charges that he sexually abused a girl who is about 13 years old, according to McMinnville police.

Richard Wallace Werner, 56, of 641 N.E. Fourth St. was charged with second-degree rape, second-degree sodomy and using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct. He was booked into Yamhill County jail on $450,000 bail.

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A state funded survey has revealed that a third of Irish parents believe they should have the right to smack their children.

The study, Parenting Styles and Discipline: Parent’s and Chidren’s Perspectives, was funded by the Minister for Children’s office.

It found that 25% of respondents hit their children in the previous year and fathers were more inclined to support the legal smacking of children.

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June 29 (IANS/AKI) A 74-year-old priest has been removed from his position in northern Italy after confessing he sexually abused minors.

Alois Kranebitter, parish priest in the Alto Adige region’s Bolzano-Brixen diocese, will no longer be allowed to celebrate mass in public and will be obliged to live in a place where he has no contact with children, the diocese said in a statement.

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