CHULA VISTA, CA — A Chula Vista elementary school tutor and volunteer youth football coach accused of repeatedly molesting a young relative pleaded not guilty Monday to five felony charges of sexual abuse against a minor. Carlos Ojeda, 20, was ordered held on $800,000 bail and told to have no contact with the alleged victim. He faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted, said Deputy District Attorney Ted Minahan.  READ MORE HERE

THEY’VE BEEN MISSING FOR OVER 2-MONTHS NOW

SAN DIEGO – The fate of a mother and son who disappeared two months ago in La Jolla remains a mystery, police said. Tammy Rief, 43, and her 4-year old son Jonah were last seen along Prospect Drive at the La Jolla Recreation Center on April 28. They vanished without a trace. It’s not known where the two could have gone, but now their family and friends are working hard to find them by posting flyers and asking for the public’s help.  READ MORE HERE

FONTANA, CA — A teacher at Fontana’s AB Miller High School was arrested Saturday and accused of instructing summer-school students to haze others, and the charges one of the offending students is facing suggest the hazing may have been sexual in nature. Fontana police officials on Sunday issued a news release, announcing arrests made in connection with the hazing of a student but only referred to the incidents as assaults. On Monday, officials said at least three students have been identified as victims.  READ MORE HERE

Two of Jesse Michener’s daughters, Violet, 11 and Zoe, 9, suffered severe sun burns while participating in field day at a Tacoma, Washington public school because school policy forbade students from using sunscreen without a doctor’s note. READ MORE HERE

What is “Statute of Limitations?”
A statute of limitations (or SOL), simply, is the maximum amount of time one has to bring a lawsuit from the time of the injury or other ground for a lawsuit. SOLs vary from state to state and from claim to claim. The statute of limitations may also be set to begin running at different times. Some SOLs begin running at the time of the injury and others begin running when the injury is discovered. In cases with minors, the SOL is “tolled” or doesn’t begin to run until the minor turns 18. Some states, like Delaware and Florida, have eliminated the statue of limitations for child sexual abuse altogether; others also have a “discovery rule” which simply states that the statue of limitations do not begin to run until a claim “accrues.” (instead of the original date of injury)

There are two ways in which a CSC case can be charged. The first is CIVIL: civil claims are brought on by the VICTIMS to recover for their injuries. The second is CRIMINAL: criminal cases are brought on by prosecutors and are punishable by state laws and guidelines.

Please go to this link and click on the “civil” and “criminal” chart links. They will download and you can click on your state (in this case, Florida) and see the statue of limitations and pertinent information:  http://www.sol-reform.com/

Download the CIVIL CSC Chart here

Download the CRIMINAL CSC Chart

Another Child Sexual Abuse Statue of Limitations Chart for each State in the United States

Videos on CSC Statue of Limitations

“Doctors, police officers and social workers . . . are reporting that children and adolescents are increasingly in demand as prostitutes because clients see them as ‘safer’ and likely to be free of AIDS,” says the International Herald Tribune of Paris.  At a UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization) conference on “the sex trade and human rights” held in Brussels, Belgium, experts confirmed that customers are willing to pay far higher prices for children who are considered to be virgins.  READ MORE HERE

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Articles on Child Prostitution (CNN)

Child Prostitution Worldwide Epidemic — Categorized

Three cities named where children are being sold for sex despite laws

The leader of a child exploitation ring who raped vulnerable teenage girls – who he told to call him ‘Daddy’. Shabir Ahmed, 59, was jailed last month but can only now be identified, after he was convicted of 30 more horrific rapes in a separate trial. He would befriend his teenage victims and ply them with alcohol before carrying out his attacks.  READ MORE HERE

The girl said she is often kept in the closet after police found her inside with the door tied and a portable crib pushed up against it 

A woman was charged with abusing her 10-year-old daughter who weighed just 32 pounds when she was found locked in a closet that reeked of urine. The 29-year-old woman from Kansas City, Missouri was charged on Saturday with assault and child abuse and endangerment in Jackson County Circuit Court.  The girl told detectives that her mother puts her in the closet ‘a lot,’ that she doesn’t get to eat every day and her mother will ‘punch her on her back real hard,’ according to authorities.  READ MORE HERE

Author says New York deli worker was mastermind behind kidnap and murder of aviator’s son

Says say she’s glad her mother will die in jail

Mistie Rebecca Atkinson, 32, from northern California, was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison on Wednesday in Napa County Superior Court, after she made a sex tape with her 16-year-old son.  READ MORE HERE

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — A convicted rapist this week was arrested on child pornography charges, and investigators believe he may also be involved in child-trafficking. Sonny Robert Miller, 52, was arraigned in U.S. District Court Thursday following a three-month investigation by U.S. Marshals. The investigation kicked off in March when Miller was arrested for home invasion in Dearborn. During detainment police found on Miller’s cell phone alleged pornographic videos of minors and sexually explicit text messages. One of the officers who reviewed the pictures recognized some of the children as living at Miller’s Dearborn Heights house, which is on Roosevelt Street near O.W. Best Middle School.  READ MORE HERE

Dreamcatchers for Abused Children has been nominated for a CLASSY Award!  Our Achievement has been published to the Stories page of the CLASSY Awards website.  Here’s the link to our story: http://www.stayclassy.org/stories/dreamcatchers-for-abused-children-spreads-christmas-cheer-in-port-huron-michigan