A jury on Wednesday convicted a priest and teacher in a pivotal church-abuse case that rocked the Philadelphia archdiocese and sent a church official to prison for child endangerment. The verdict supports accounts by a 24-year-old policeman’s son that he was sexually abused by the Rev. Charles Engelhardt and sixth-grade teacher Bernard Shero in about 1999, when he was 10 years old. The accuser’s 2009 complaint describing abuse by two priests and the teacher led to Monsignor William Lynn’s landmark conviction last year for endangerment. Lynn is serving three to six years in prison for his role transferring an admitted pedophile priest to the accuser’s parish in northeast Philadelphia. READ MORE HERE

Mother pleads guilty to allowing daughter, 6, to be sexually abused by different men in exchange for drugs and money
A 36-year-old mother faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to allowing her daughter, six, to be sexually abused by different men for drugs and money. Authorities say Dalina Nicholas, from Jacksonville Beach, is charged with four counts of child neglect and faces a minimum of 15 years in prison. Nicholas agreed to testify against four other people charged in the case. She won’t be sentenced until those trials conclude. READ MORE HERE

Father on trial ‘for starving and beating daughter, 3, to death after months of abuse because she was incontinent
A father has gone on trial for allegedly beating and starving his three-year-old daughter to death – three years after her bruised, malnourished body was found at his home. Donald Lee Cockrell, 30, has pleaded not guilty to murdering Alexis Marie Pounder with his fiancee, Michelle Nicole Smith, in Sandy, Oregon in January 2010. Smith pleaded guilty to the killing last year and faces a minimum of 30 years behind bars, and as part of the plea deal she will testify against Cockrell. READ MORE HERE

7-YO Boy Was Arrested and Interrogated by NYPD for 10-Hours over Missing $5.00

This kid was no killer — but some callous Bronx cops sure treated him like one. Instead of earning himself a simple trip to the principal’s office, a terrified 7-year-old boy was hauled out of class, handcuffed like a hardened criminal and “interrogated” by police for a grueling 10 hours — all over a playground dispute involving $5, his family is charging. “My son was crying, ‘Mommy, it wasn’t me! Mommy, it wasn’t me!’ I never imagined the cops could do that to a child. We’re traumatized,” Wilson Reyes’ distraught mom, Frances Mendez told The Post last night. READ MORE HERE

HUNGRY parents in North Korea have been caught eating their CHILDREN to avoid starvation, according to reports. One father is said to have been executed by firing squad for killing his two kids for food. And it has sparked fears there could be further cases of cannibalism in the country. READ MORE HERE

Another school shooting in the news: A 14-year-old boy got shot at an Atlanta middle school this afternoon, reports WSB-TV and 11Alive. The victim was hit in the back of the neck but was alert upon arrival at the hospital, say school officials. READ MORE HERE

Prostitutes openly using Facebook and Twitter to sell sex ‘are putting children at risk’

MIDLAND CITY, Ala. — Police, SWAT teams and negotiators clustered at a rural property where a man was believed to be holed up in an underground shelter Wednesday after fatally shooting the driver of a school bus and fleeing with a 6-year-old child passenger, authorities said. The standoff went through the night after the man, whose name has not been released by police, boarded the stopped school bus in the town of Midland City on Tuesday afternoon. Dale County Sheriff Wally Olsen told WBMA-TV () the man shot the driver when he refused to let the child off the bus and the driver later died. READ MORE HERE

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A New Mexico woman and her boyfriend locked up an 8-year-old girl with developmental disabilities in a wooden cage, then left her alone while they headed out to watch a movie, police said Tuesday. Cindy Patriarchias and Edmond Gonzales took her three children to an elementary school Friday to watch the movie, a police report said. Patriarchias’ estranged husband called police when he arrived at the school and learned that the 8-year-old girl was unattended at the mobile home. READ MORE HERE

Abuse: Mother Giving Her Baby Boy A Tattoo!

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A mother has been arrested after she was allegedly filmed beating up a 12-year-old girl who had arranged to fight her daughter after school. Amber Lee Gutierrez, 33, surrendered to police after cell phone footage emerged showing her viciously attacking the young girl in a San Pedro, California alleyway on January 14. The video, first aired by local station KTLA, allegedly shows Gutierrez dragging the young girl along the ground before punching her across the back in an attack that left the child with a broken arm. READ MORE HERE

Aisling McCarthy Brady, 34, is accused of killing one-year-old Rehma Sabir

The British baby allegedly battered to death by her nanny may have been abused for many weeks, it emerged yesterday. Tests on Rehma Sabir’s body showed up injuries that were still healing when she died in an American hospital on her first birthday. Aisling McCarthy Brady, the child’s 34-year-old Irish carer, has denied violently assaulting her two days earlier. READ MORE  HERE

A London secondary school repeatedly ignored warnings that a music teacher was sexually abusing young female pupils, a court heard today. Convicted pedophile Michael Crombie, 75, was accused by a series of girls and their parents whilst working at Wanstead High School, yet head teachers refused to take action. Crombie was was jailed for five years in 2010 after being convicted of charges relating to the systematic abuse of 29 young girls whilst working as a music teacher in East London. READ MORE HERE

She was just doing her job… A pregnant Oklahoma paramedic, Joanna Hickerson, 30, was on duty one night when a man in the back of the ambulance, Paul Ronald Heatley, 58, assaulted her and continually kneed her in the abdomen, killing her baby. Hickerson was 17 weeks pregnant at the time of the beating. READ MORE HERE

Adoptive mother ‘locked children in their rooms, beat them with a HAMMER, zip-tied their hands together and forced them to use trashcan as toilet’

One mother faces charges after her boyfriend’s horrific crime. On Friday Neena Costanza, 21, turned herself in to Bellevue, TN authorities regarding the murder of her 17-month-old daughter Eloise in July 2012. Her boyfriend, Jacob Hughes, 22, has been in custody since July 26 on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated child abuse, and aggravated child neglect. READ MORE HERE

The bodies of two girls were found dumped on a street. Two girls, aged 6 and 12, were found on a residential street in the capital, Guatemala City, apparently strangled and still in their pajamas. According to Daily Mail,  707 women were killed in Guatemala in 2012, a significant increase from 431 in 2011, according to the human rights group Mutual Support, which tracks violence in that nation. READ MORE HERE

Boy, 4, murdered in his bed: Killer struck as child slept near twin brother

A boy of four is believed to have been murdered in his bed as he slept near his twin brother. The killer is thought to have struck in the early hours of Sunday morning. Neighbors heard screams around 3.30am and saw the boys’ mum’s 22-year-old partner carrying a youngster, crying: “Somebody please help.” Armed police later arrested a 32-year-old man in a nearby railway tunnel. READ MORE HERE

KINGSLAND, GA — The City of Kingsland Police Department has arrested a man wanted overseas suspected of murdering a child. Police say they answered a call about an intoxicated person at the Flash Food/Krystals restaurant located at 1341 Georgia Hwy 40 in Kingsland. Upon arrival, officers found 31-year-old Ricardo Chaves Dos Santos of Charleston intoxicated and creating a commotion inside the store. READ MORE HERE

LAFAYETTE, IN – An Indiana woman serving a life sentence in the beating death of her 4-year-old stepdaughter wants a judge to reverse her conviction in the 2005 killing. State deputy public defender Joanna Green asked a Tippecanoe County judge Thursday to reverse Michelle D. Gauvin’s convictions on the grounds that she received poor representation from court-appointed trial attorneys. READ MORE HERE

The Sheriff’s Office said that deputies arrived at the home of Theresa Corrales, 37, and Luis Cortez, 38, on Saturday morning to find an infant unable to breathe. The baby, identified as 3-month-old Adrian Cortez, was transported to mercy hospital where he was pronounced dead. An autopsy is scheduled for next week to figure out what caused the 3-month-old baby boy to die Saturday morning. READ MORE HERE

An Apollo Beach man is charged with child abuse. Hillsborough County deputies say 26-year-old Joshua Johnson shook a 4-month-old baby, causing brain injuries. Deputies say Johnson admitted to forcefully picking up the baby and putting her down, bouncing her head against things and not supporting her head. READ MORE HERE

GULFPORT — A Gulfport woman has been charged with felony child abuse after police say she struck her 9-year-old son in the head with a bat. Kizzie Margaret Williams, 31, of Campbell Circle in Gulfport, is in the Harrison County jail on a $50,000 bond pending a hearing by Judge Diane Ladner. READ MORE HERE

A former Texas high school teacher was charged for having inappropriate relationships with multiple students.Tonya Flink is accused of having sex with at least four of her students during the 2010-2011 school year. According to OpposingViews, Flink used to be a computer technology teacher at a Haltom City, TX high school. READ MORE HERE

Brent Egan Dotson, age 57, is a fugitive on the run, WANTED after being CONVICTED of repeatedly raping a girl over the course of two year period between 2009 and 2010, who is now 9-years-old. *The mandatory minimum sentence for the sexual assault charge is 25 years in prison* He could be traveling anywhere, possibly even your neighborhood!

Brent has a tattoo on the outside of his right upper arm of a large SHARK design. Brent usually wears a cap, likes to wear sleeveless shirts and is a smoker. Brent is a hoarder who frequents yard sales, is known to pawn items and go to the dump to rummage through trash. Brent was last known address was 4274 Holmestown Rd Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He has friends and family in Alabama, West Virginia, Virginia and Florida. He is a painter by trade.

Crimestoppers is offering up to $1,000.00 and Al Holcomb Bonding is offering $5,000.00 for information leading to Brent Dotson’s arrest.  READ MORE HERE