FLINT, Michigan — The mother of Dominick Calhoun was arraigned this afternoon on second-degree murder and second-degree child abuse charges in the death of her 4-year-old son.
Corrine Baker, 25, cried as 67th District Court Judge John L. Conover read the charges against her.
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http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/04/corrine_baker_mother_of_domini_2.html
Program aims to teach parents about the danger of Shaken Baby Syndrome and how to prevent it
Dr. Kerri Hecox, medical director for the Children’s Advocacy Center, says the No. 1 trigger for child abuse is crying, prompting social service agencies to educate new parents on ways to cope.
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http://www.mailtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100426/NEWS/4260308
Gerren Isgrigg lay in the viney overgrowth near a Collin County pond for three days before his body was found by a mowing crew April 15. A probable cause affidavit obtained today states that Gerren was not visible from the roadway or a park area nearby.
Darlene Phillips, Gerren’s grandmother and primary caretaker, faces a murder charge. She told investigators she left Gerren at the park on April 12 with a note that read: “I’m 6, I have seizures, I need medication and a feeding tube.”
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9:31 A.M. — Cape Coral police have arrested the father of a 6-year-old child after he inflicted large bruises over most of the child’s body with his belt.
Albert Solomon Griffin, 32, was charged with child abuse for striking the child numerous times when the child lied about teeth brushing.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Fighting child abuse is a cause with universal support. Yet a push to create a national database of abusers, as authorized by Congress in 2006, is barely progressing as serious flaws come to light in the state registries that would be the basis for a national list.
In North Carolina, a court ruled last month that its registry is unconstitutional because alleged abusers had no chance to defend themselves before being listed.
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http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2010/apr/26/flawed-state-abuse-registries-hamper-national/
BARTOW | Ryan Joe Clarke told detectives that didn’t intend to kill his 7-month-old stepson, but lost control, according to a transcript.
The baby was crying, and his troubled relationship with the boy’s mother was on his mind. “Stress just got to me,” Clarke said.
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This wasn’t the first time Josi Montell Hall was accused of violently abusing his daughter. But this time there was no doubt, Jacksonville prosecutors said.
A jury agreed Friday, finding Hall guilty of second-degree murder in the 2008 beating death of his 22-month-old daughter, Kyla.
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http://jacksonville.com/paul-pinkham/2010-04-23/story/verdict-jacksonville-dad-killed-his-baby-kyla
A 21-year-old Billings woman was convicted Friday of abusing an 8-month-old child she was baby-sitting at her home.
A District Court jury returned the guilty verdict against Nevada Ugalde for aggravated assault. She was charged for the injuries suffered by Isaiah Napier on June 11, 2008.
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ELIZABETHTON — A welfare check on a child led to the arrest of a Beck Mountain man and woman on charges of neglect and drug manufacturing charges.
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Authorities have accused a Jacksonville man of intentional child abuse.
The Jacksonville Police Department arrested Corey Dinan, 32, of Western Boulevard, late Friday and charged him with two counts of intentional child abuse causing serious bodily injury, contributing to the delinquency of a juvenile and assault on a child under age 12.
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http://www.jdnews.com/news/child-77642-class-bodycopyrag.html
ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A father in New York who’s facing charges offering his children for sale on Craigslist says the whole thing was a joke.
The ad posted by Joshua Stagnitto read, in part: “Selling my kids on the Craigslist black market. I have two kids, two and one year old.”
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-dad-kids-craigslist,0,3170200.story
Parents and relatives are overwhelmingly the most likely perpetrators of abuse of a child, according to an annual report released by the state Department of Public Welfare.
About 81 percent of the substantiated 3,365 sexual assaults on children statewide in 2009 were committed by parents, family members or someone living in the child’s home, the report found. Another 16 percent of the sexual assaults were committed by baby sitters.
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http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/parents-relatives-remain-most-likely-abusers-of-children-1.742869
Oscar nominee’s dark past revealed on Oprah
Newly famed celebrity, Mo’Nique has opened up about a very dark childhood secret that saw her brother banished from the family home. When the Precious star went public about child molestation claims laid on her by brother, Gerald, her parents were left distraught. To confront their public shame, both Mo’Nique’s parents and her troubled brother appeared on Oprah Winfrey’s show to discuss the situation in which Gerald aged 13 at the time tried to “lay on top of” Mo’Nique, then eight.
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http://www.ahlanlive.com/20858-monique-tells-all-about-child-sex-shame
Christopher Wright would allegedly trade babysitting services for free room and board.
VALLEJO (KRON) — Vallejo police are searching for more potential victims of a man accused of molesting children and taking pornographic photos of them.
Vallejo police raided Christopher Wright’s Oakland home Thursday where they seized what they describe as “a lot” of child pornography.
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