TAIXING, China – The screams of the 4-year-olds inside the kindergarten could be heard out in the street. When people ran in to investigate, they found what one witness said was a scene “too horrible to imagine” — blood everywhere as a knife-wielding man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard Thursday in the second such school attack in China in two days.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100429/ap_on_re_as/as_china_students_attacked

Midland County, TX- On Monday, Midland County deputies were alerted by CPS after a woman showed up at their office with a cell phone video of her roommate, 29-year old Kristi Michelle Kaulaity.

The woman, a 33-year old female, told deputies Kaulaity was intoxicated around 2:30 a.m. last Friday and became impatient with her 1-year old son. The woman said she started video taping Kaulaity with her cell phone because she was concerned for the child. The video showed Kaulaity pushing her son away from her several times before she put him on the couch, grabbed a pillow and covered his face with it while he cried.

READ MORE HERE (Along with other child abuse headlines):

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/04/29/roommate-recorded-woman-smother-her-son-with-a-pillow/#more-9774

Having already created controversy with her erotic manual Top Secret: Sexual Guidance for Married Couples, Emirati social worker Wedad Lootah (pictured, inset) is now proposing to pen sex education pamphlets for children. Lootah, a marital counsellor in the Family Guidance section of Dubai Courthouse, tells Time Out: ‘The idea has not yet been introduced to the public – it is only a plan.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.timeoutdubai.com/community/features/15414-sex-education-for-kids

KLAAS KIDS–

According the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC)

• 85% to 90% of the 876,213 persons reported missing to America’s law enforcement agencies in 2000 were juveniles (persons under 18 years of age). That means that 2,100 times per day parents or primary care givers felt the disappearance was serious enough to call law enforcement.
• 152,265 of the persons reported missing in 2000 were categorized as either endangered or involuntary.
• The number of missing persons reported to law enforcement has increased from 154, 341 in 1982 to 876,213 in 2000. That is an increase of 468%.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.klaaskids.org/pg-mc-mcstatistics.htm

Abuse reports are continuing to rise here, across nation

It’s difficult to talk about child abuse, but the subject is very important. And it is being talked about a lot this month because April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Unfortunately, child abuse is a fact of life in many Rowan County families, as in families across the state and nation.

Annually, more than 3.5 million children are reported to child protective services agencies as victims of child abuse and neglect. Mirroring the nation, the number of reports of child abuse and neglect in North Carolina continues to rise, according to the state Department of Health and Human Services. In fiscal year 2009, the state had 67,397 reports of abuse or neglect, up from 58,815 in fiscal year 1998.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.salisburypost.com/Opinion/041810-insight-child-abuse-month

Child advocates can’t explain county’s 5-year increase, but economy plays role.

The number of reported child abuse and neglect cases in Mecklenburg County rose 22 percent between 2004 and 2009, according to a study released Wednesday.

Researchers found there were 12,232 reports of abuse or neglect between July 1, 2008, and June 30, 2009 – about 2,200 more than during the same time span from 2004 to 2005.

Maternal methamphetamine use is seen as a factor.

An increase in Los Angeles County’s infant mortality rate in 2007 erased much of the progress made since 2003, according to an annual report released Tuesday.

The report from the Inter-Agency Council on Child Abuse and Neglect is based on statistics gathered by child abuse experts, law enforcement and social welfare agencies. The report analyzes the deaths of children who were killed by caregivers, committed suicide or died in accidents, and tracks overall abuse reports.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/topofthetimes/topstories/la-me-0429-abuse-20100429,0,1741731.story

Michael Louis Anthony in court Wednesday.

LONGVIEW, Wash. – A former youth minister at Calvary Chapel is accused of abusing one of the girls he was supposed to help guide.

Michael Louis Anthony, 43, is charged with having a sexual relationship with a then 15-year-old girl and is currently in jail.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.katu.com/news/local/92391324.html

A 46 percent jump in child-abuse reports last month has Cumberland County officials worried that their depleted ranks of social workers won’t be able to protect vulnerable youths.

The county Department of Social Services received 427 reports of child abuse or neglect in March, up from 292 in February. The highest previous monthly total since last summer – 354 – came in December.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.fayobserver.com/Articles/2010/04/29/994672

Co-founder grassed the outfit to the FBI

ONE OF THE FOUNDERS of the online encyclopedia Wikipedia told the FBI that the outfit was serving up kiddie porn.

Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left the project in 2002 due to what he described as “disagreements” whinged to the feds about drawings of kids and cartoons accompanying some paedophilia-related entries. In his view such graphics were depictions of child abuse.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1603521/wikipedia-denies-child-abuse-allegations

RACINE – Authorities are investigating a former Racine County Human Services Department employee accused of filing false reports on child abuse cases he never investigated.

Todd O’Brien, a child protective services initial assessment worker, was fired this week for allegedly filing detailed reports about child abuse cases he was supposed to be investigating.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/92398219.html

LEADVILLE – The Lake County Sheriff’s deputy who resigned after shocking 30 high school students with a Taser at a career fair is now facing several charges, including multiple counts of child abuse.

9NEWS has learned that the Lake County District Attorney’s office is charging former Deputy John Ortega with 11 counts of child abuse resulting in injury, one count of child abuse with no injury and nine counts of reckless endangerment.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=137793&catid=339

EVANSVILLE, IN (WFIE) – An Evansville child is hospitalized in Cincinnati after police say she sustained serious abuse.

Police were called to St. Mary’s when a 5-year-old girl was admitted that had signs of child abuse.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=12397693

A baby boy abandoned by doctors to die after a botched abortion was found alive nearly a day later.

The 22-week infant died one day later in intensive care at a hospital in the mother’s home town of Rossano in southern Italy.

The mother, pregnant for the first time, had opted for an abortion after prenatal scans suggested that her baby was disabled.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7646540/Baby-boy-survives-for-nearly-two-days-after-abortion.html