Robert Gingrich, a psychologist who specializes in sex-related problems but has no specific knowledge of Thomas Ott’s case, said many male sexual abusers first become frequent users of pornography.

“It’s like alcohol. Some of us can handle it, and some of us can’t. I think pornography’s quite toxic. I’ve seen it do damage to marriages, and I’ve seen a lot of men I’ve worked with compulsively using it,” Gingrich said.

He said up until the early 1990s most pornography involved only adults. But growth of the internet offered more variety, including child pornography.

“I know in this era of Tiger Woods there’s this question, does sexual addiction really exist? Yes, it does. I’d rather try to get somebody off cocaine than pornography,” he said.

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Naeem Williams is facing the death penalty in the beating death of his 5-year-old daughter Talia

A South Carolina mother has been granted permission to sue the U.S. Army in the beating death of her little girl in a case that could force the Pentagon to take a hard look at its duties to families stationed on base.

Tarshia Williams’ 5-year-old daughter Talia was beaten to death on a Hawaii Army base after what she charged were repeated failures on the part of military personnel to protect her daughter from obvious signs of abuse, allegedly at the hands of her father and stepmother.

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The St. John’s-Ravenscourt campus. (KEN GIGLIOTTI / FREE PRESS ARCHIVES)

WINNIPEG – The Winnipeg Police Service says its child abuse unit is investigating assault allegations involving students at an exclusive school in the city.

Police won’t release details of the allegations involving the St. John’s-Ravenscourt School.

But Stephen Johnson, the head of the university-preparatory school, says the incidents involve what he calls organized bullying.

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Police: Boy Was Beaten, Tortured Before Death

ARGENTINE TOWNSHIP, Mich. — The mother of a 4-year-old Argentine Township boy who was beaten to death has been released from jail.Police had arrested the boy’s mother and her boyfriend in connection with Dominick Calhoun’s death, but released the mother Tuesday afternoon.

The child died Monday morning at the Hurley Medical Center after a concerned relative found the boy beaten and tortured Sunday inside of a Pinehurst Apartment Complex in Argentine Township Sunday.

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A Florida river has again become the focal point for a search of 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings, who went missing more than a year ago. Investigators today combed the St. John’s River for Haleigh, who disappeared from her father’s home in Satsuma, Fla., in February 2009. Satsuma is just 60 miles south of Jacksonville.

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BROOKLYN — Rabbi Baruch Lebovits, 59, the wealthy owner of a travel agency in Borough Park, Brooklyn, was hit Monday with a lengthy prison term for sexually abusing a then-16 year old teenager from his neighborhood.

Lebovits, a father of seven children and grandfather to twenty four, had long been the subject of talk in his community, but no action was ever taken against him, until three alleged victims came forward a couple of years ago.

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SATSUMA, Fla. — Investigators were back out in Satsuma, Fla. looking for clues in the Haleigh Cummings investigation Tuesday. She’s the 5-year-old girl who disappeared from her bed in her father’s mobile home 14 months ago.

Sources told WFTV a suspect is in custody, but wouldn’t provide any additional details. WFTV spoke to Haleigh’s grandmother, but she said she’s not allowed to talk about the search.

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HOMESTEAD, Fla. (WSVN) — A South Florida mother accused of beating her 7-month-old baby has been arrested.

Homestead Police responded to calls of a disturbance at a home involving an infant. “At approximately midnight, Homestead Police Department was contacted and advised that at 40 Northeast 13 Street in Homestead, there was a highly intoxicated female that was beating on a small baby,” said Homestead Police Detective Fernando Morales.

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Bond set at $250,000

A 59-year-old Kentucky man has been charged with rape and incest after allegedly having sex with a 4-year-old girl.

Jack Eagle, of Shepherdsville, is accused of forcing himself on the relative for around seven and a half years.

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The harrowing story of an alleged gang rape of a seven-year-old girl in Trenton, N.J., was shocking, stunning, distressing, hurtful. How could such a thing happen and why are Black girls and children so often victimized and abused?

According to the authorities, a 15-year-old girl went to a party in a vacant apartment and her seven-year-old sister tagged along. The older girl, who is still under the age of consent, reportedly had sex with some of the males in the apartment and then let the men pay to touch the little child.

The touching turned to outright rape, according to the police. At Final Call press time, four minors and three adults had been charged in the alleged crime.

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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

Parents in Cambridge are demanding answers after a worker at what’s supposed to be an afterschool safe haven was charged with child rape.Christopher Bradshaw, 24, was an assistant teacher in charge of more than a dozen kindergarten students at the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Open School’s extended day program.

He was arrested on accusations of raping a 9-year-old boy earlier in the month at a friend’s home.As students left school Monday, parents arrived for the special informational meeting about the recent termination of Bradshaw, a city employee working at the school for the last two years.

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The Jackson Sun • April 13, 2010

A Fayette County jury convicted a Somerville man last week of three counts of rape of a child and one count of sexual exploitation of a minor by electronic means with more than 100 images, according to a news release today from the office of District Attorney General Michael Dunavant.

Ernest Lee “Dan” Jennings was originally indicted in November and charged with rape of three boys under the age of 13, which occurred between May and September, the release says.

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A Multnomah County jury has found the Boy Scouts of America negligent for allowing an assistant scoutmaster who molested children to continue volunteering in the 1980s.

They awarded the plaintiff $1. 4 million. Amelia Templeton reports.

Kerry Lewis is the plaintiff in the case. He was awarded $1.4 million in damages for the harm he suffered.

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http://news.opb.org/article/7136-jury-awards-14-million-boy-scouts-abuse-case/