Las Vegas, California – A 16-month-old baby girl is dead and the person who was supposed to be watching her is now charged with murder. This incident is the latest in a recent string of murders involving young kids being beaten to death. Investigators said Detrail Young admitted shaking his girlfriend’s sister’s baby after she started crying earlier this week. The arrest report details Young demonstrated with a doll what happened. During the police interview, he shook the doll back and forth and asked “what’s wrong with you?” in a stern tone. READ MORE HERE

Lafayette, Louisiana –  A Carencro man has been charged with raping a 5-year-old boy and possibly giving the child AIDS, according to records with the Lafayette Parish District Attorney’s Office. Conwell Cormier, 29, was indicted by a Lafayette Parish grand jury this past week on one count of aggravated rape and one count of exposing the child to AIDS, records show. Cormier, whose address was 241 Beau Basin Road, Apartment 13 in Carencro, has been in the Lafayette Parish Correctional Center since his arrest on April 1.  READ MORE HERE

West Springfield, Massachusetts — A UMass police officer is facing a number of charges, including child rape, following his arrest Thursday. 49-year-old George Colon of West Springfield was arrested Thursday night on a warrant, charging him with two counts of open and gross lewdness, rape of a child, sodomy, and enticing a child under the age 16. Colon was arrested at his home in West Springfield, with the assistance of his UMass Police supervisor and another officer. READ MORE HERE

Man to be arraigned for sexually molesting 3-year-old daughter

JACKSON, MI – A Blackman Township man is to be arraigned Monday afternoon on several counts of criminal sexual conduct for allegedly sexually assaulting his 3-year-old daughter. He would take showers with the girl and told Blackman-Leoni Township public safety detectives Christopher Boulter and Joseph Merritt that he may have attempted to have sex with her six times. He said it happened “too many times to remember,” according to a petition seeking to remove the girl from the care of her mother and father, who were living at the Avalon Hotel, 2000 Bondsteel Drive. READ MORE HERE

Police: Body found during search for missing Charlestown girl

Officials at the Maryland State Police North East barrack confirmed Monday evening that a body was found by searchers, but did not say whether or not the body was that of a missing 10-year-old Charlestown girl. Troopers and K-9 search teams were seen scouring the area around a Port Deposit-area home throughout Monday afternoon and evening. Maryland State Police set up a command center with the Cecil County Department of Emergency Services at nearby Pleasant View Baptist Church to run the investigation. READ MORE HERE

High school freshman Kathlynn Shepard had been missing since May 20 when she and a 12-year-old friend were lured into a pickup truck.

DES MOINES, Iowa — Authorities confirmed Sunday that a body found in the Des Moines River was that of a 15-year-old Iowa girl who was abducted along with a younger friend after getting off a school bus last month. An autopsy confirmed the body found Friday night under a bridge near Boone is Kathlynn Shepard’s. Her kidnapping May 20 in the small city of Dayton led to a massive search involving federal, state and local authorities. READ MORE HERE

A dog has been hailed a hero for saving the life of a newborn girl who had been slung into a rubbish dump. The animal, a Thai Bangkaew called Pui, discovered the child inside a plastic bag at the roadside tip in Bangkok. He carried the bag in his mouth to his owner Gumnerd Thongmak’s house and barked loudly to get his attention. Mr Gumnerd’s niece, Sudarat, 12, then opened the bag and found the tiny baby inside and she was rushed to hospital. READ MORE HERE

Little Boy Stops Suicidal Mom Even After She Cut His Neck

Mother Planned Murder-Suicide

On the morning of June 5, a Jiaxing city Haining county netizen reported that a mother prepared to commit suicide after slashing her son’s neck only to have the perceptive son, in order to save his mother, ignore his own injury, get up, and try to wrestle the knife away from his mother. During the struggle for the knife, the son’s hands were cut by the sharp knife. Perhaps as a result of love reawakening reason, the mother subsequently called the police. At present, after emergency medical treatment and surgery, both mother and son are out of life-threatening danger. READ MORE HERE

It is not known what caused the massive brawl. Cell phone videos recorded the huge fight that occurred on the last day of school at Proviso East High School in Maywood, Illinois in which as  many as 300 students took part and which required the Sheriff’s office and 40 officers from neighboring towns to handle; at least ten students were arrested — one handling a knife — and three were hospitalized. READ MORE HERE

A group of alleged thugs are behind bars after they attempted to have sex with two underage girls, record it on video and then put evidence of the alleged crime on the Internet, where one of the girls’ teachers at an Oregon junior high school saw it and reported it to authorities.  The video of the two girls – one of whom was a 12-year-old seventh-grader at Centennial Middle School in Portland – found its way to the Facebook pages of students at another middle school within the same district, where a social media-savvy teacher spotted it on one of his student’s Facebook pages, recognized one of the girls as an underage student and told the school’s principal. It didn’t take long for authorities to identify the adult men in the video, one of whom is a known gang member with the ‘Unthank Park Hustlers.’ READ MORE HERE

A mother already charged with selling her toddler to a man who used her to make child pornography has been accused of doing the same with another daughter. The Gary woman, 24, was charged in March for selling her 18-month-old daughter for an undisclosed sum to Christopher Bour, 39, allegedly knowing she would be used in porn films.  However an indictment filed on Wednesday against the mother adds a second count of selling a child and permitting her to participate in pornography. READ MORE HERE

Child porn teacher is allowed back in the classroom

A teacher who downloaded child porn has been allowed to resume his career by the Department for Education. Geoffrey Bettley, 36, was sacked, given a police caution and ordered to sign the Sex Offenders’ Register after  admitting viewing sickening images over several years. But a professional conduct panel said the married RE teacher could return to the classroom because of his ‘excellent teaching’. A senior official, acting on  behalf of Education Secretary Michael Gove, rubber-stamped the decision, saying there was a ‘need to be proportionate and to act in the public interest’. READ MORE HERE

Lostprophets frontman Ian Watkins had his day in court today, after being formally charged with 32 counts including sexual offenses against children. The singer denied any involvement in all counts and plead not guilty. According to reports from local media, the 35-year-old performer had an hour-long hearing at the Cardiff Crown Court this morning where he made a statement through his attorneys. READ MORE HERE

A former Coronation Street actor ‘used his status’ to ‘flatter and gain the trust’ of a 14-year-old boy whom he went on to indecently assault on a number of occasions, a court heard today. Andrew Lancel, 42, best known for his role as Frank Foster in the ITV soap, is accused of six counts of indecent assault of a child under the age of 16. The charges relate to one male victim and the offending allegedly took place between 1993 and 1994 when he was aged 14 and 15, Liverpool Crown Court heard. It allegedly occurred before the actor joined Coronation Street in 2010. READ MORE HERE

The mother of a nine-year-old boy shot him five times in the home she shared with him and the boy’s father in Steamboat Springs, Colorado then turned the gun on herself, according to a preliminary investigation by the Routt County Sheriff’s Office . Lisa Marie Lesyshen shot and killed her son Asher on Tuesday, leaving a note by the child’s bed telling the father Michael Kirlan that he was to blame for her actions. Her husband was woken by the shots and called 911 as she asked him to kill her. She survived.  ’Remember you are responsible for what has happened here and you are the person that caused it,’ she wrote, signing the note, ‘Lisa and Asher’. READ MORE HERE

‘Barbaric’ couple ‘water-boarded their own children during ten years of captivity and fed them through a hole in the wall’

A barbaric couple who ‘water-boarded’ their four children during ten years of captivity and abuse have gone on trial in Belgium. Parents Sebastien Hardenne and Isabelle Simon also kept their three girls and a boy in a locked room at night and ‘fed’ them through a small hole in the wall, it was heard. They beat them with sticks, an iron bar and whips and tortured them with an electric fly swatter, police have revealed. The father urinated in the children’s mouths and even practiced ‘water-boarding’ torture similar to that allegedly used at America’s Guantanamo Bay prison, the court was told. Two girls were also locked in a suitcase smeared with dog excrement and swung around a room, it was heard. READ MORE HERE

A young boy was forced to do horrible things by other classmates. A nine-year-old boy who has remained unidentified is speaking out about being forced into a bathroom and forced to perform oral sex on three classmates at Public School 194 in Harlem, New York and his mother is suing the Education Department for 6 million dollars.  Both the boy and his mother have remained unidentified for their safety, but the mother is suing the Education Department for not properly taking care of an atrocious situation that occurred in one of the public schools. READ MORE HERE

The first record case of child abuse in history is believed to have been uncovered in Egypt. Archaeologists say the 2-3 year old child, known only as ‘burial 159′, shows signs of having repeatedly had her bones broken, and being shaken repeatedly. The find is believed to be the oldest record of child abuse – and experts say it may stem from an Egyptian belief that children had to be ‘toughened up’ as they grow. The gruesome discovery was made by researchers excavating a cemetery in Dakhleh Oasis, Egypt, which has seen continuous human occupation since the Neolithic period. The 2- to 3-year-old, who lived around 2,000 years ago is the first recorded case of child abuse in history, the team say. READ MORE HERE

Three Filipino girls featured in a U.S. documentary on sex trafficking have helped to convict a Pennsylvania child pornographer who forced them to act out his disturbing sexual fantasies live through the internet. Jeffrey Herschell, 54, of Washington was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison on Tuesday after the brave girls described the horror they were made to endure from the age of eight to a CNN film crew, then to U.S. authorities. ’Whatever the American client wants us to do, we must do it,’ ‘Gen’ told CNN in May 2011 for the documentary ‘The Fighters,’ which aired earlier this month. Traffickers in Manilas, who are behind the camera, charge men like Herschell around $27 an hour to ‘direct’ the online streams. READ MORE HERE

A Wisconsin high school teacher is accused of sexually assaulting at least two male students in less than a week. Megan Garland, 28, has been charged with child sex assault after a 14-year-old boy came forward claiming that the Messmer High School science teacher performed oral sex on him on May 23. According to the alleged victim, the abuse took place in the parking lot of Destiny Church and School. Neither Garland nor the alleged victim have any direct association to the school. They reportedly arrived at that location to attend an event.  READ MORE HERE

One final journey to the prison cell where he’ll rot

‘Evil’ Mark Bridger was told today he would never be released from prison after he was found guilty of abducting, murdering and disposing of schoolgirl April Jones. The judge at Mold Crown Court this afternoon gave the former abattoir worker a whole life sentence, calling him a ‘pathological and glib liar’, and a ‘paedophile who for some time harbored sexual and morbid fantasies about young girls.’ Justice Griffith-Williams also asked him to reveal what he did with April’s body for the sake of her parents Paul and Coral, who sat just feet away from him as he was jailed. READ MORE HERE

He was willing to hurt her and kidnap her — he just did not mean to kill her. Kyle Dube, 20, of Orono, Maine, created a plan to kidnap Nichole Cable, 15 of Glenburn, Maine, duct tape her mouth, throw her in his truck, and kidnap her, then  later on “find” her and save her to become her hero; but his plan fell apart when he accidentally killed the girl and dumped her in the woods. READ MORE HERE

The infant was found in a sewage pipe on Saturday in a residential building in the wealthy coastal province of Zhejiang, China. Firefighters in eastern China have rescued an abandoned newborn baby boy lodged in a sewage pipe directly beneath a toilet commode, state television reported, in a case which has sparked anger on social media sites. There are frequent reports in Chinese media of babies being abandoned, often shortly after birth, a problem attributed variously to young mothers unaware they were pregnant, the birth of an unwanted girl in a society which puts greater value on boys or China’s strict family planning rules. READ MORE HERE

BROKEN ARROW, Oklahoma -A Broken Arrow woman has been arrested on a felony warrant for child abuse by Munchausen by proxy syndrome. Victoria Lynn Lee, 37, was booked into the Tulsa County jail on Saturday afternoon and is being held in lieu of $35,000 bond. Munchausen syndrome by proxy is a form of child abuse in which a primary caregiver exaggerates or fabricates of illnesses or symptoms of a child to medical professionals. READ MORE HERE

LONDON – Police have launched investigations into allegations of child abuse at a former Catholic boarding school in the Highlands. It is alleged that monks running the Abbey School at Fort Augustus beat pupils and sexually assaulted them. The school was part of a Benedictine Abbey on the shores of Loch Ness and closed in 1993. With dwindling numbers of monks, the abbey itself closed in 1998 and was sold off as a holiday home development. READ MORE HERE