A helpless 7-month-old Queens boy was beaten to death by his father, the latest in a rash of violence against small children in the borough, officials said Wednesday.

Xiah Greene died at Queens General Hospital Tuesday night after he was punched in the back by his dad Larry Greene, who flew into a rage when the child would not stop crying, police sources said.

Claude Foulk, the former executive director of Napa State Hospital in Northern California, is accused of 35 felony counts of child molestation.

LONG BEACH, CA—A foster son of a former state mental hospital director has testified that his foster father sexually abused him for years after befriending him at a children’s hospital.

The witness was the second person to testify against Claude Foulk during his preliminary hearing Tuesday in Long Beach Superior Court.

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A national advocacy group says it’s filing a lawsuit in federal court in Boston seeking reform of the state’s foster care system because it is hurting, rather than helping, vulnerable children.

The group Children’s Rights says in its civil rights class action suit that the foster care system is “causing physical and psychological harm to the abused and neglected children it is mandated to protect.”

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The grandfather of an infant found dead earlier this year has been indicted in connection with the baby’s death.

Kenneth Burchett owned the Chester home where 4-month-old Brandon Burchett lived with his parents, a home the sheriff previously called deplorable.

Burchett and the baby’s parents — Kristopher Burchett and Amanda Goodman — were all indicted on a charge of child neglect resulting in death.

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Funeral services were held Thursday for five-year-old Julian Soliz.

Travis County deputies found the boy dead in the Wells Branch area Saturday morning after his caretaker reported him missing.

Friends and family held a memorial Wednesday night. The prayer service at Mission Funeral Home in East Austin was especially hard for those close to Julian. One woman said she used to play with the boy all the time.

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Two young men convicted of pimping children as part of a West Seattle street gang have been sentenced to years in prison.

A King County jury returned guilty verdicts Feb. 19 against alleged West Side Street Mobb members Donta Walters and Gamada Abdullahi. Each was found guilty of prostituting children and conspiring with Street Mobb members to prostitute teen girls.

King County prosecutors claimed each man pimped underage girls as part of a prostitution ring that’s already garnered convictions against six members of the West Seattle-based gang. The convictions follow that of Deshawn Cashmoney Clark, a 19-year-old man sentenced to a 17-year prison term following convictions on human trafficking and child prostitution charges.

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“We are trying to bring someone to justice for this little girl right here,” Sheriff Jeff Hardy said.

(CNN) — Authorities now believe Haleigh Cummings is dead and are treating the 5-year-old’s disappearance as a homicide investigation, the Putnam County, Florida, sheriff said Thursday.

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http://us.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/04/15/haleigh.cummings.search/index.html

The stepfather who defended three of the men accused of taking part in the gang rape of a 7-year-old girl at a party after she was allegedly pimped out by her teenage stepsister is a convicted sex offender. This certainly explains a lot. In the meantime, two boys, who are ages 13 and 14 were charged in the horrific crime. They identified Gregory Leary, who has already been arrested, as one of the sickos involved in the attack. You’ll remember that Father of The Year claimed Leary was just trying to help. Pop the hood.

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Last October, Ashleigh Hall, a 17-year-old British student, told her mother she was staying at a friend’s house and instead arranged to meet a teenage boy she had been messaging with on Facebook. She never returned the next morning. The teenage boy turned out to be a 32-year-old serial sex offender, Peter Chapman, who raped and murdered Hall and dumped her body in a ditch. Chapman eventually confessed to the crimes and was jailed for life last month.

In an investigation spanning 21 countries across six continents, The Associated Press found 30 cases of Roman Catholic priests accused of abuse who were transferred or moved abroad.

Here are snapshots of the cases:

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REV. DENIS VADEBONCOEUR

Vadeboncoeur, a 69-year-old priest, served a 20-month sentence in Quebec in the 1980s after pleading guilty to sexual abuse and sodomy of four teenage boys.

Afterward, he moved to a small parish in Normandy, France — and was convicted in 2005 of raping an adolescent boy. He was sentenced to 12 years in a French prison, where he is now.

The bishop at the time, Jacques Gaillot, said he tried to give the priest a second chance.

“That was my first mistake,” Gaillot told The Associated Press. “Retrospectively I realized that I was wrong to take him in, and I was wrong not to say anything.”

A 1987 letter to Gaillot from Vadeboncoeur’s Canadian superior, Pierre Levesque, clearly spelled out Vadeboncoeur’s sex crimes and concerns that he would abuse again. But Levesque also supported Vadeboncoeur’s move to France and said “the hard lesson Vadeboncoeur endured had beneficial effects on him.”

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100415/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_predator_priests_capsules_4

Police in Florida have charged a 56-year-old truck driver with 20 counts of child pornography after paying a visit to his home in Ocala and taking with them his personal laptop.

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