What in the world has happened to the United States? Once upon a time the U.S. was one of the best places in the world to raise a child, but today it is an absolutely horrible place for children. We physically abuse our children at staggering rates, we pump them full of antidepressants and other pharmaceutical drugs and we send them off to public schools that more closely resemble prison camps every single day. Meanwhile, the economic decline of the America is hitting children far harder than it is hitting the adult population. More than one out of every five children in America is living in poverty and one out of every four children is on food stamps. One of the ways that a society is judged is by how it treats its most vulnerable members. As you will see below, the way that children are treated in America today is absolutely shameful.

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http://www.presstv.com/usdetail/196553.html

Jeanette Maples’ Dad Sues DHS

PORTLAND, OR — A Portland attorney says the state is to blame for the death of Jeanette Maples, a Eugene teen who was killed by her mother. David Paul filed a lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Jeanette Maples. Paul says his goal in taking the Department of Human Services (DHS) to trial will be to scrutinize what state workers knew, when they knew it, and what was done to prevent this tragedy.

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http://kezi.com/news/local/222564

A former Catholic priest exposed as a serial child sex abuser has claimed he posed no “threat or danger to children”. Bill Carney was accused by the Murphy report, which was published in Ireland two years ago, of abusing at least 32 children. Carney, who was ordained in 1974 and defrocked in 1992, left Ireland and was traced to Spain before settling in Northleach, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Evidence showed the 2-year-old, AVEION LEWIS, had lost a quarter of his body weight and had suffered an untreated broken arm in the last month of his life.

Brandon R’eal Lockett Sr. has been found guilty of second-degree murder and child abuse and neglect in Roanoke Circuit Court after pleading no contest to the charges this afternoon. Lockett faces a up to 50 years in prison when he is sentenced in November in the January 2010 death of his stepson, toddler Aveion Lewis — 40 years is the maximum penalty on the murder charge, 10 years for the abuse and neglect.

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http://www.roanoke.com/news/breaking/wb/297440

The Orange County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a possible near-fatal child-abuse case involving a 5-month-old girl. The girl was rushed to Arnold Palmer Hospital around 11 a.m. Sunday after someone called to report a child had vomited and stopped breathing.

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http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/os-child-abuse-orange-20110830,0,7947221.story

Report is expected to claim police were complicit in cover-up of sexual abuse by priests and lay members of the church.

County Donegal in Ireland is about to have its bucolic image shattered by a report into how paedophiles, both clergy and laity, abused children for decades. An investigation into clerical sex abuse in the Catholic diocese of Raphoe in County Donegal is about to report its findings, which are expected to be damning. Meanwhile, new evidence has emerged from victims of a parallel paedophile ring operating in the same Gaelic-speaking corner of the Irish Republic.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/29/catholic-clergy-children-donegal-report

Police said they have arrested and charged 33-year-old Lakeya Johnson in the death of her 4-year-old daughter, who officials said had suffered massive head trauma as a result of child abuse. Dramiara Johnson had been taken to Johns Hopkins Hospital on Aug. 22 with significant head injuries, police said.

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http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/crime/blog/2011/08/mother_charged_in_death_of_4_y.html

PHOENIX, AZ – Newly released statistics released by Child Protective Services show the agency is understaffed and overworked, and critics argue its having a negative impact on children. According to its website, so far in 2011, CPS has recorded several deaths and near deaths from abuse or neglect. .

We bring to a close the case of Jessica Beagley, the Alaska mother convicted last week of child abuse for using hot sauce and a cold shower as punishment on her adopted son. A judge Monday gave the 36-year-old mother a 180-day jail sentence and fined her $2,500, but the judge suspended imposing those penalties on the condition that Beagley avoid committing any other criminal offenses for three years.

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http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2011/08/30/hot-sauce-mom-avoids-jail/?mod=google_news_blog

An Emerson physician is accused of stabbing her 13-year-old adopted daughter with a screwdriver at least 100 times because the girl failed to wash her dog’s clothes properly, police and health officials said. Dr. Sylvia S. Lee, an allergist with offices in Wayne and Old Bridge, faces felony charges of aggravated assault and endangering the welfare of a child. Her license to practice medicine was suspended at an emergency meeting of a committee of the state Board of Medical Examiners.

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http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/Emerson_physician_accused_of_jabbing_13-year-old_with_screwdriver_100_times.html

LUFKIN, TX–Lufkin Police have arrested a man accused of sexually assaulting a teenage boy after forcing him to watch pornographic movies. Police arrested William Bass, 55, of Lufkin, on Tuesday, following an investigation which began on Aug. 15, after a 14-year-old boy told his mother Bass assaulted him. According to reports, the boy and his family know Bass and the child was allowed to spend the night at Bass’ home.

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http://www.ktre.com/story/15323584/lufkin

SANTA ANA, CA—A California man was arrested for investigation of throwing his crying 7-year-old son into the water from a sightseeing cruise boat during an argument that shocked other passengers, authorities said Monday. Sloane Briles, 35, was taken into custody for child endangerment and resisting arrest, Orange County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.

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http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_18780843

FLINT, Michigan — Corrine Baker, accused of ignoring pleas for help from her 4-year-old son as he was allegedly tortured by her live-in boyfriend in Argentine Township last year, pled guilty today to second-degree murder and second degree child abuse, according to Genesee Circuit Court records.

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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2011/08/corrine_baker_pleads_guilty_to.html

FORT LEE, Virginia — Pennsylvania authorities hunting for a U.S. soldier accused of killing four people and opening fire on police officers have found the man’s body after he apparently took his own life, police said on Sunday. Police and prosecutors said the body they believed to be of Army Capt. Leonard John Egland, 37, of Fort Lee, Virginia, was found behind a vacant business at a major intersection of Warwick Township.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-hurricane-rampage,0,7687544.story

Mom Blames ‘Ghost’ For Death Of Two Daughters

DALLAS — A 10-year-old Dallas-area boy who died of dehydration after his father and stepmother kept water from him was being punished for wetting the bed, authorities say. The boy, Jonathan James died July 25 after water was kept from him for five days while temperatures soared to 100 degrees or more each day, police said. The boy’s dad, Michael Ray James, and stepmother, Tina Alberson, both 42, were jailed after being charged Thursday with injury to a child causing serious bodily injury.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/28/jonathan-james-dead-deydration_n_939728.html?ncid=AOLDSN00280000000004

Suspect in a 2010 rape case in now connected to two other cold cases

CLEVELAND – Cleveland police are asking for the public’s help in finding a person wanted in three different sexual assault cases. Recently, the Cleveland division of sex crimes/child abuse detectives asked for assistance in locating and identifying a man wanted for sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in December 2010. Further investigation has revealed that the suspect from the 2010 rape case is also linked to two other violent rapes. The DNA from the wanted man has been linked to two cold case investigations.

LAKEVILLE, Minn. — A father abandoned his 11-year-old son last month, telling him in a letter to move in with neighbors because their south Minnesota home was in foreclosure, according to a warrant complaint seeking his arrest. Steven Alexander Cross, 60, left two notes for his son, according to the complaint charging him with a gross misdemeanor of child neglect. One letter said their home in Lakeville was going to be sold at a sheriff’s sale and instructed the boy to take his PlayStation and go to a neighbor’s house.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/26/minnesota-dad-steven-cros_n_938686.html?ncid=AOLDSN00280000000005

Dance Judge DISTURBING Details In Child Sex Case

Former “America’s Best Dance Crew” judge Shane Sparks allegedly sexually abused at least 6 young girls IN ADDITION to the woman who claims Sparks raped her when she was 12 years old  … this according to court documents obtained by TMZ.  The documents were just made public … following a plea deal Sparks made with the L.A. County District Attorney in which he received 270 days in jail after pleading no contest to having unlawful sex with a minor under 16.

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http://www.tmz.com/2011/08/25/so-you-think-you-can-dance-judge-shane-sparks-child-sex-case-la-county-court-documents/#.Tllb1l34KfM

NEW!!! DREAMCATCHERS MISSING CHILDREN’S DIVISION

Missing Children Division Director: Kinsley Braun

Too Many Are Missing…And they are still among us. 2,300 Americans go missing on a daily basis: Both children and adults. And yet so many go unrecognized, unreported, and forgotten before their communities know they’re gone.

Dreamcatchers new Missing Children’s Division is focused on bringing each of these cases to the forefront and helping locate them!!

Please visit our Missing Children’s Division page here!

You can also add our Missing Children’s Division FACEBOOK page here!

Please email inquires, tips or missing children submissions to:  dreamcatchermissingchildrendiv@gmail.com

A 49 year old Buena woman is facing manslaughter charges after allegedly kicking her pregnant daughter in the stomach– killing the unborn baby. It’s a case that’s saddened neighbors and even seasoned detectives. Dulce Villegas of Buena can’t believe her neighbor 49 year old Querida Guerrero allegedly kicked her 22 year old pregnant daughter Helen Guerrero in the stomach– killing Helen’s unborn baby.

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http://www.kapptv.com/article/2011/aug/25/buena-woman-facing-manslaughter-alleged-assault-ki/

CHANDLER, Ariz. – Chandler police detectives arrested a care provider and her boyfriend on child abuse charges after an infant was found with 14 broken bones. Angelica Jimenez, 25, was booked into the Maricopa County Jail on one count of child abuse and hindering prosecution. Steven Saldana, 30, was booked on three counts of child abuse.

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http://www.fox11az.com/news/local/Baby-suffers-14-broken-bones-care-provider-boyfriend-arrested-128331788.html?hpt=ju_bn6