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Man Who Impregnated 11-yr-old Pleads Guilty

Posted by Sandra On October - 31 - 2010 1 COMMENT

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BUFFALO, N.Y. — A Buffalo man who police say faked his own death after getting his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter pregnant has pleaded guilty to first-degree rape. The Buffalo News reports that 34-year-old Edtition Thompson is expected to receive a sentence of 17 to 20 years in prison after pleading to the reduced charge last week. If he’d been convicted at trial of predatory child molestation he would have faced a mandatory life sentence.

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Pastor Sentenced to 18-Yrs for Child Rape

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ELLENSBURG — A 51-year-old Cle Elum pastor has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to raping and molesting a boy multiple times over six years. Kittitas County prosecutors said Friday that James Watkins’ sentence was at the top of the range for his conviction on three counts of child rape and one count of child molestation. Deputy Prosecutor Paul Sander says Watkins was arrested and charged in July after the victim came forward out of concern that Watkins was grooming another victim.

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Babysitter Charged with Molestation

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A 21-year-old Oak Harbor man is accused of raping and molesting a young girl while he was babysitting her, court documents allege.  Casey Eskildsen pleaded not guilty in Island County Superior Court Oct. 25 to rape of a child in the first degree and child molestation in the first degree. Detective Laura Price with the Island County Sheriff’s Office investigated the case after an 11-year-old girl told her parents that Eskildsen had raped and molested her on a regular basis over a year’s time when she was 8 or 9 years old, Price wrote in her report. She said Eskildsen babysat her and her brothers.

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Immigrant Indicted in Rape of Child Relative

Posted by Sandra On October - 31 - 2010 1 COMMENT

LAS CRUCES – A 56-year-old undocumented immigrant and convicted drug trafficker was indicted on charges he raped and molested a child in his family over a period of eight years. Federal agents found David Juarez Carbajal in Houston in September. He has been in the Do a Ana County Detention Center since Oct. 10 on a $100,000 cash-only bond, according to the jail. A Do a Ana County grand jury formally charged him Thursday with 27 counts of criminal sexual penetration of a child younger than 13; 18 counts of incest; and one count each of molestation and attempted molestation.

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Child Groping Incidents at Haunted House

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TARPON SPRINGS — A North Pinellas man was arrested on multiple child abuse charges Friday night. Tarpon Springs police said he went into a haunted house organized by high school students and fondled, kissed or harassed several of them. It happened about 10 p.m., police said, during an event organized by the Tarpon Springs High School drama club. Police would not disclose the location, but said it was not a private home. They could not say if any of the five victims, ages 12 to 18, were members of the drama club.

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http://www.tampabay.com/news/publicsafety/crime/groping-alleged-at-haunted-house/1131437

Abuse Victims Protest at Vatican

Posted by Sandra On October - 31 - 2010 1 COMMENT

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Clerical sex abuse victims from across the world on Sunday took their calls for justice from Pope Benedict XVI to the doors of the Vatican itself. Close to a hundred protesters _ victims of abuse and their families _ gathered in Rome before leading a candle-lit vigil to the edge of St Peter’s Square on which they will leave personal messages for the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. The US group behind the event, Survivor’s Voice, said the victims had not been given permission to enter the square as a group, but would attempt to go in small numbers to leave letters and stones to mark their visit. “This isn’t an attack on faith or religion, it’s about behaviour and ethics,” said Marco Lodo Rizzini, a spokesman for child victims of abuse from Italy’s Antonio Provolo Institute for the Deaf.

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http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/204162/abuse-victims-bring-protest-to-vatican

Child Abuse Severity Spikes

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Critical injuries stemming from the abuse of two Clovis infants are in line with a statewide trend of increased severity in abuse cases. “What we’re experiencing now is an increase in cases that the abuse is more severe,” said Romaine Serna, spokeswoman for New Mexico’s Children Youth and Families. “Recently we’ve seen some kids with some pretty serious injuries; it’s cause for concern.” Overall, she said statewide child abuse statistics haven’t spiked, just the severity of injuries. Though doctors gave him a poor prognosis for surviving, police say a 6-month-old boy remains hospitalized and is undergoing physical therapy following ongoing abuse.

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http://www.cnjonline.com/news/abuse-40645-severity-line.html

Baby Found Abandoned In Ditch

Posted by Sandra On October - 31 - 2010 1 COMMENT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Jacksonville father was arrested Saturday night for child abuse after police said they found his baby on the side of a Southside street.A neighbor called police to the 3200 block of Dorothea Road, where they found the child inside a stroller in a ditch. The baby, named Larry, was alone but unharmed.A little later, police said they arrested 25-year-old Stephen Broughman on suspicion of leaving the baby alone.
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Teens Confess to Brutal “World of Warcraft” Murder

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In an incident sure to lend fire to the ongoing debate about whether or not video games encourage real-world violence, a grisly murder in Canada has been linked back to the popular online game World of Warcraft, where the two teenage perpetrators reportedly planned and then bragged about their crime.

The two British Columbia teens, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old, pleaded guilty Wednesday to raping and murdering 18-year-old Kimberly Proctor, whose charred body was found on a hiking trail in March. The two teens, both gamers, reportedly planned the attacks with texts and online chats and later bragged about their horrific crime in World of Warcraft, even sharing links to newspaper articles detailing the murder.

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Sex Offenders and Halloween

Posted by Sandra On October - 30 - 2010 1 COMMENT

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Officials warning sex offenders this Halloween

CUMBERLAND COUNTY (WTVD) — It’s the one night of the year kids are encouraged to take candy from strangers, but some adults are forbidden from passing out treats on Halloween. In many communities, like Cumberland County, sex offenders are being ordered to have nothing to do with trick-or-treating. It’s called “Operation Lights Out.” It requires any sex offender on probation or parole to lock themselves inside their homes on Halloween night. Authorities say it is not a law, but a court order offenders better not violate.

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Family Fun Center Employee Charged with Child Rape

Posted by Sandra On October - 30 - 2010 2 COMMENTS

Michael David Hasson was arrested Oct. 28 by Hillsboro Police on charges of sex abuse with two children. (Hillsboro Police)

Hillsboro Police arrested a Forest Grove man Thursday on charges he sexually abused children when he worked at an area bowling alley. Michael David Hasson, who worked at the Park Lanes Entertainment Center in Hillsboro, is charged with unlawfully touching female victims who were 4 or 5 years old at the time. One victim was assaulted at the bowling alley and another victim related to Hasson was assaulted in Aloha, according to Hillsboro detectives. Both crimes occurred four or five years ago, also according to police.

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Army Facing Further Child Abuse Allegations

Posted by Sandra On October - 30 - 2010 1 COMMENT

Colombia news - Sldiers, Army, Human rights

A Colombian soldier is suspected of sexually abusing a 13-year-old girl on October 2, in the Arauca department, close to the site where three children were killed earlier this month, Caracol Radio reported Thursday. The girl’s description of the assailant reportedly resembles a soldier of the 5th Brigade who was stationed in the area. The suspected man had been absent from the military camp for several hours when both offenses occurred, according to interviews and statements from several soldier.

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http://colombiareports.com/colombia-news/news/12650-investigation-sexual-abuse.html

Dad Shook, Threw, Squeezed, Killed Infant

Posted by Sandra On October - 30 - 2010 1 COMMENT

A Lafayette father arrested Thursday on suspicion of causing the injuries that killed his 10-week-old son told authorities that he squeezed, threw and shook the infant “pretty good and pretty hard” in an attempt to revive him when he stopped breathing.  But investigators suspect Joaquin Campos, 21, abused his son, Lyon Campos, before he became unresponsive, according to an arrest report made public Friday.

A doctor told investigators that Campos has “given no explanation for why Lyon would stop breathing,” according to the report. The doctor from Exempla Good Samaritan Medical Center said Campos “is giving a backwards story and that the shaking preceded the stop in breathing.”

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Child Abuse Victims Apt to Get Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)

Posted by Sandra On October - 30 - 2010 1 COMMENT
 Child Abuse Victims Highly Susceptible to Post-traumatic Stress Disorder
A new study has found that victims of child abuse, who blame themselves and their families for their situation, experience higher rates of post-traumatic stress disorder. These victims usually try to sleep more than usual, avoid thinking on the problem, or resort to alcohol and drug abuse. This is one of the conclusions drawn from a research conducted by David Cantsn Cortis at the Department of Evolutionary and Educational Psychology of the University of Granada, and led by professors Fernando Justicia Justicia and Josi Cantsn Duarte.

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