ANALYSIS/OPINION

If you have a young son or daughter, or a young niece or nephew, or another young person you care about regardless of relation, the past week led to some reflection. Is there anybody who might be abusing them? Would they tell someone if it’s happening? What can be done to prevent the former and ensure the latter?

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/nov/17/snyder-what-if-it-was-itheiri-child-who-was-abused/

WHAT TO DO IF YOUR CHILD DISCLOSES SEXUAL ABUSE:

http://kids.delaware.gov/pdfs/dscyf_trauma_disclosure.pdf

A Lehigh Acres woman has been arrested for suspected child abuse after her three-month-old daughter was found with a broken arm. Leiliana Chang, 22, brought the infant to Health Park Hospital on Tuesday for treatment of the injury. An employee of the hospital notified the Child Abuse Hotline and the Lee County Sheriff’s Office that the parents of the victim were unable to explain the cause of the injury.

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http://www.nbc-2.com/story/16075556/2011/11/18/lehigh-mother-charged-with-child-abuse

The Penn State scandal is keeping child sexual abuse in the headlines and in our national conversation like nothing else ever has. I think that it’s great. It’s great because child abuse is rampant in our society and we still haven’t figured out how to handle it when it happens, what to do with the perpetrators or how to prevent it. We’ve been treating it like it’s just going to go away every time we uncover it.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robin-quivers/child-sexual-abuse_b_1101894.html?ref=travel

A Hollywood casting agent who placed child actors in films like Cheaper by the Dozen 2 is a convicted sex offender who kidnapped and molested an eight-year-old boy, it has been revealed. Jason James Murphy worked his way up the Hollywood ladder as a casting agent on a string ofHollywood family films, including ‘Super 8? alongside director J.J. Abrams.

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http://wishididntknow.com/2011/11/18/hollywood-child-casting-agent-revealed-to-have-kidnapped-and-molested-eight-year-old-boy/

SYRACUSE, N.Y. — Just two weeks after Penn State was rocked by a child sex-abuse scandal, ESPN reported Thursday that police were investigating an assistant basketball coach at Syracuse University on allegations of child molestation. Shortly afterward, Syracuse placed longtime assistant coach Bernie Fine on administrative leave “in light of the new allegations and the Syracuse City Police investigation,” the school said.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/bernie-fine-child-abuse-syracuse-basketball-investigation_n_1100579.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

Riverside police shot and killed a suspected child molester after he pulled a gun on detectives who were at his apartment to serve a search warrant Wednesday morning, police said. The shooting occurred about 7:20 a.m. in the 10400 block of Indiana Avenue, just south of the 91 Freeway. Shortly after detectives from the department’s sexual assault and child abuse unit knocked on the suspect’s apartment door to search the home, the man allegedly pulled a gun.

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http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/11/riverside-police-fatally-shoot-suspected-child-molester.html

PHOENIX, AZ — It’s a new record for Arizona and no one is happy about it. Seventy children died in 2010 from severe abuse. But experts have a plan to fight the disturbing trend.  They are the littlest ones among us, too small to stand up for themselves and last year dozens were silenced by the very people who were supposed to protect them.

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http://www.azfamily.com/news/Deadly-Child-Abuse-Reaches-New-Record-in-Arizona–133899508.html

California—- A Sacramento music teacher was arrested for receiving and possessing child pornography.  Robert Broadfoot, 29, is a California State University graduate who has been giving private lessons to children inside their homes. He was a “Liberace Scholar” at Sacramento State, and has a Masters Degree in Music Performance at CSUS.

READ MORE HERE:

http://deadkidsofmyspace.com/

A teacher at Schaumburg Christian School was charged with sexual exploitation of a child Tuesday after a student told administrators he masturbated while students were in his classroom, police said. On Friday, Paul LaDuke, 75, of Hanover Park, was seated behind his podium when he unzipped and lowered his pants and masturbated, Schaumburg police said.

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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-teacher-at-schaumburg-christian-school-arrested-after-he-masturbated-in-class-20111115,0,1403589.story

A fifth-grader in Illinois is dead and her family says bullies are to blame. The 10-year-old girl committed suicide after asking her mom if she could be homeschooled. “I really thought she had it all under control because I thought she was listening to me,” said Stacy Conner, Ashlynn’s mother. Stacy has talked to her daughter about bullying before but she never expected that her daughter, Ashlynn, an honor roll student at Ridgefarm Elementary, would take her life at just 10 years old.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/wxin-ashlynn-conner-fifthgrade-illinois-girl-commits-suicide-family-blames-bullies-20111114,0,3901060.story

A McKinley Park neighborhood man became so enraged that his son soiled his diaper that he placed a frying pan filled with hot cooking oil onto his genital area and thigh earlier this month on the Northwest Side, prosecutors and police said. The 23-month-old suffered second and third-degree burns to his genitals and thigh. His mother was also charged for allegedly failing to seek medical care for the child for more than three days, authorities said.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/chi-prosecutors-man-charged-with-scalding-son-over-dirty-diaper-20111115,0,5216661.story

Book Description

Each year, statistics from the Children’s Bureau’s National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) are compiled and reported. The most recent report, Child Maltreatment 2009, refers to data from Federal fiscal year (FFY) 2009 and includes national and State-by-State data on child maltreatment, including fatalities due to abuse and neglect. Using data from Child Maltreatment, this factsheet summarizes the information on child fatalities for FFY 2009 and includes some additional research and information on prevention.

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http://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/factsheets/fatality.cfm

HESPERIA • Authorities arrested a mother and a Hesperia man for the torture and abuse of at least one of the woman’s children, San Bernardino County Sheriff’s officials said Friday. Desiree Perez, 30, and Daniel Knutte, 23, both of Hesperia, were arrested Thursday for abuse of a child, torture and kidnapping.

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http://www.hesperiastar.com/news/hesperia-4494-abuse-torture.html