OKLAHOMA CITY – Oklahoma City police have arrested a mother in connection with a child abuse case in a southwest Oklahoma City hotel. Officers arrested 31-year-old Leana Lauck on Wednesday. Police say her 3-year-old son was severely abused at the LaQuinta Inn near South Meridian and Interstate 40. Lauck told police one of her friends is responsible for abusing the toddler. She is not being accused of actually abusing her son, but police say she waited nearly 18 hours before bringing the abused child to the hospital.

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A Hartford man received a life prison sentence Wednesday for severely burning a 7-month-old boy in hot water. Circuit Court Judge Kevin Moulton issued the sentence for 32-year-old Jamie Abrams. A jury convicted Abrams last month of a felony aggravated child abuse charge. “This has not been easy case for anyone involved, and although you have shown remorse you do have two priors,” Moulton said. “The facts of the case are bad facts. The things that happened to this child can never be corrected by enough sorries.”

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The baby who “pooped his pants for the 14th time today.” Failed toilet training efforts on toddlers. A teen report card with too many D’s. “Anybody who’s had kids knows the frustration,” said Dr. Annamaria Church, chief of Erlanger’s general pediatrics division. “What isn’t normal is to lash out toward a child.” And yet such behavior has become alarmingly routine at Children’s Hospital at Erlanger, where Church has seen nine physical child abuse cases in the past six weeks.

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46-year-old Virginia Sims remains behind bars without bond for the drowning death of her 6-year-old granddaughter Alexis Walker. A frantic call rang through 911 dispatch around seven o’clock Monday night. A call residents describe as gruesome. “I can’t imagine anyone doing that to a child,” says Colquitt County resident Jenny Sauls. But co-workers of Virginia Sims say this isn’t the first time she put Alexis in harm’s way. “I heard she burnt the house down and she ran the car into a tree with her and the little girl in the car,” says Sims’ co-worker Tatiana Hill. A three page police report indicates Sims was charged with first degree arson and another two page report says she was involved in a single car crash with Alexis inside.

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CURRITUCK CO., N.C. –  A 16-year-old from Knotts Island is charged with stabbing her newborn daughter to death. Currituck County Sheriff Susan Johnson says Rebecca (“Becca”) Blackmore went to the emergency department of Chesapeake General Hospital on Friday, June 17.

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LOCKPORT — A former assistant Boy Scout leader in Amherst and Clarence was sentenced to five years in state prison today for molesting two Town of Lockport brothers in incidents a year apart. The prosecutor, Assistant District Attorney Robert A. Zucco, called Michael P. Walleshauser, 51, of Parkwood Drive, Lockport, “a pedophile,” saying that was proven by the finding of names of pornographic files, although not the actual pictures, in his home computer.

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Is spanking a part of raising children or is it simply child abuse?

The hot-button issue of spanking recently returned to spotlight as a Texas mother, Rosalina Gonzales, was sentenced to five years of probation for spanking her two-year-old daughter. When the paternal grandmother noticed the child’s butt was red, she had the child taken to a hospital. They found Gonzales’ daughter healthy, with no lasting injury. Still, they notified the Department of Family and Protective Services who remanded custody of Gonzales’ three children to the grandmother.

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A PAEDOPHILE jailed for possessing child porn claimed the images found on his computer were ‘artistic’, a court was told. Ian Whittaker, formerly of The Esplanade, Weymouth, was sentenced to a total of 16 months in prison after admitting 12 offences of possessing indecent images of children and three charges of making indecent photos of a child.

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COURT HOUSE, N.J. — Cape May County had the highest number of children in out-of-home placement in 2010 and the second highest number of abuse and neglect investigations in 2009, according to the non-profit organization Advocates for Children in New Jersey (ACNJ). In the statewide report on child well being, the organization used a scale from 1 to 21, with 21 being the worst. Cape May County ranked 18.

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A shocking haul of child sexual abuse material has been seized on ships arriving in Tauranga during a month-long Customs operation. Customs officers seized 14 hard drives and five laptops from several vessels. Some of the items contained “extreme” images of child sexual abuse, and were inspected by investigators and forensic officers who travelled from Auckland.

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The Oklahoma Medical Examiner’s office has not released an official cause of death, but investigators do not believe that the death is a result of the alleged sexual assault, Muskogee police Cpl. Pedro Zardeneta said. Robert Jack Meeks II, 22, and Betty J. Hall, 42, both of Muskogee, were booked into the Muskogee County Jail.

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