Rhode Island—– An attic dwelling substitute teacher is being charged with enticing a child, contributing to delinquency of a minor and possession of child pornography. Justin W. Menoche, 23, was a math and science substitute teacher in Burrillville and Coventry. This sorry story first came to light after concerned parents notified police that their underage daughter had met up with someone from Facebook.

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LOS ANGELES — Is a convicted sex offender — on parole and working what appears to be an entry level cleaning and janitorial job that’s being funded with public money — worth $42 an hour? That’s what convicted sex offenders James Spry and Steven English are claiming in a lawsuit, and under state law, they might have a case. Spry and English are suing Baron Services of Chino, a company that does final cleaning and janitorial work on construction sites.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sex-offenders-on-campus-2,0,7832507.story

Police say they have seized more than 307,000 child pornography images from around the world after shutting down an illegal website allegedly run by a Gold Coast man. Queensland police today announced the closure of Operation Gatekeeper, which targeted the major international website and led to charges against 21 Queenslanders, including a 15-year-old child.

Today, at least two out of every ten little girls and at least one out of every ten little boys are victims of a sexual abuser. That can change. We now have the power to stop the abusers who commit 95 percent of the sex acts against our children. We know who this abuser is, where to find him (or her), which children are most at risk, and how to protect them.

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http://childmolestationprevention.org/pages/prevention_plan.html

A retired Baltimore priest accused last year of sexually abusing a young female parishioner over 40 years ago will not face charges after a police investigation stalled and the unidentified woman decided to pursue the case, spokesman for the police and the Archdiocese of Baltimore said Thursday.

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http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2011-05-19/news/bs-md-ci-priest-abuse-20110519_1_associate-pastor-archdiocese-spokesman-sean-caine-baltimore-priest

The rural West Longview home of Jeffrey Allen Trebilcock and Rebecca Lynn Trebilcock, who were arrested Thursday and accused of starving and abusing their five adopted children. A rural West Longview couple was arrested Thursday and accused of abusing and starving their five adopted children so badly that at times the children ate dog food and dandelion leaves, according to the Cowlitz County sheriff’s office.

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FOUNTAIN, CO — The deaths of a man and toddler found inside a home following a six-hour standoff in Colorado are being investigated as a murder-suicide and a woman wounded while trying to escape was fighting for her life Tuesday, authorities said. Officers found the bodies Monday night in the home in Fountain, just south of Colorado Springs, after trying unsuccessfully to contact the man. Fountain Police Chief Todd Evans said the house had been doused with gasoline, according to The Gazette.

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The officer arrested for child porn has been re-arrested, this time for sexual assault on children and CSPD says they believe there are multiple victims. A news conference was held Friday to release additional information. Police arrested 30-year-old Joshua Carrier on May 11 on charges of Sexual Exploitation of a Child, a class 4 felony. At that time investigators had information that suggested Carrier’s actions were limited to the purchases of commercial child pornography photos.

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http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/CSPD_Officer_Arrested_For_Sexual_Assault_on_Minor_122264529.html?storySection=story

LOS ANGELES, CA– A special KTLA investigation found that convicted sex offenders were able to get jobs on K-through-12 campuses all throughout Southern California. And based on our findings, it’s something that may be happening more often than you think. Steven English and fellow convicted sex offender James Spry not only were on many school campuses, but – according to interviews – they were on some of those campuses while students were there too.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-sex-offenders-working-on-school-campuses,0,1675664.story

THE HEALING COMES SLOWLY

Children who are abused in their earliest years face a long, uphill battle to recover from the mental and emotional wounds inflicted on them. “There’s trauma, and then there’s trauma that happens when you’re really little, which is harder to treat, because you don’t have words to help you,” said Dr. Velma Bacak, a child psychiatrist with Riverside Behavioral Health Center. In addition to the trauma of abuse and malnutrition, neglected children may be deprived of attachment and socialization.

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http://www.dailypress.com/health/dp-nws-child-abuse-recovery-side-20110517,0,526665.story

SERIES ON CHILD ABUSE:

http://www.dailypress.com/health/dp-child-abuse-story-gallery,0,192343.storygallery

Facebook’s New Way to Combat Child Pornography

Facebook, the largest photo-sharing site on the Internet, said it has begun to use PhotoDNA to hunt for several thousand registered illegal images among the 200 million images uploaded by its users each day. Facebook will host an online event at 3:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on Friday to explain the initiative, which follows its January move to join the center’s Amber Alert network.

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http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/19/facebook-to-combat-child-porn-using-microsofts-technology/?partner=rss&emc=rss

“Causes” of clerical child abuse in US revealed by new report

CATHOLIC PRIESTS WHO sexually molest children and teenagers are not driven by the pressures of celibacy or repressed homosexual desire, according to a  new inquiry into clerical abuses in the US. Instead, the report – commissioned by US bishops and other Catholic organizations – released today blames social changes, suggesting that abuse was driven by a general rise in “deviant” behavior in the 1960s and 1970s. Increases in drug use, premarital sex and divorce throughout society influenced “vulnerable” priests who became abusers, the document’s authors write.

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http://www.thejournal.ie/causes-of-clerical-child-abuse-in-us-revealed-by-new-report-139706-May2011/

Man convicted of sexual assault with toy lightsaber

FULLERTON – A 19-year-old Riverside man was convicted Tuesday of sexually assaulting a 9-year-old boy with a toy light saber while other children watched after the child’s mother dropped him off with a baby sitter. Javier Enrique Perez now faces a potential 30-years-to-life term in state prison at his sentencing July 22 by Superior Court Judge James Rogan in the North Justice Center. Perez could also be required to register as a sex offender for life.

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http://www.ocregister.com/news/perez-300866-year-old.html?nstrack=sid:1600330|met:102|cat:227|order:1

Jury convicts Ronald Woodard of manslaughter, child abuse in death of 2-year-old Cameron Russell

Jurors have just convicted Ronald Woodard of manslaughter and first-degree child abuse in the January 2010 death of 2-year-old Cameron Russell. The jury returned the verdict after deliberating all day Tuesday and again this morning.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2011/05/jury_ronald_woodard_in_death_o.html