D’IBERVILLE — Police officials said a man charged with felony child abuse told detectives he used a “baby belt” to punish his 2-year-old child.

The girl was treated at a hospital Tuesday night after an apparent beating, said D’Iberville Police Capt. Keith Davis. Police took William Curtis Jones III, 28, into custody at his apartment on Mallett Road.

PHOENIX – A man and a woman are arrested and face child abuse charges involving their infant.

Latovia Jones, 18, and Zachary Michael Wilson, 21, were both arrested for alleged child abuse involving their 4-month old baby girl.

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http://www.azfamily.com/news/Dad-allegedly-smothered-baby-when-she-cried-Parents-face-child-abuse-charges-91763654.html

A pair of 17-year-olds from Lincolnton face charges in what investigators say was a child abuse case involving a 2-month-old girl. The infant had a broken leg, deputies say.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said it has charged Samantha Michelle Goodnight, 17, and Kevin Aeljandro Rodriquez in the case. Each has a listed address of English Oak Road in Lincolnton, the sheriff’s office said.

A 14-month old baby is dead tonight after police say the infant was severely injured from child abuse. No one has been arrested in the case but police do say that they don’t believe the suspect was a stranger to the child.

Deryun Wilson suffered head trauma and significant brain damage and that’s what police say killed the infant.

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http://www.ksfy.com/news/local/91774849.html

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail6371.cfm?Id=99259

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http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/04/22/26645.htm

The child abuse scandal that has engulfed the Vatican intensified on Thursday after two more bishops offered to resign and the leaders of 5m Catholics in England and Wales issued the strongest admission of guilt yet to emerge from the church.

The offer of resignation by Walter Mixa, Bishop of Augsburg in southern Germany, will be particularly unwelcome for Pope Benedict XVI as the two men are close allies. Bishop Mixa is alleged to have beaten children at a Catholic children’s home in the 1970s and 1980s. He has not been accused of sexual abuse.

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While most parents don’t believe they could ever harm their child, each year, more than 900,000 cases of suspected child abuse are investigated nationally.

Even more alarming, the number of children in the United States who die from neglect or abuse each year in most states ranges from two to three per 100,000, according to estimates from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service -Administration for Children and Families. This equates to 50 child deaths in Missouri, based on 2007 numbers.

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http://www.nevadadailymail.com/story/1627341.html

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – When the first-grader would raise her hand in class, James Andrew Megaw would come to her desk, squat beside her, and press her hand against his crotch.

That was the testimony Monday of a 15-year-old Arizona girl, one of several children who accuse former Valencia Elementary School teacher Megaw, 43, of touching them sexually.

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THE FOSTER mother of two girls who were allegedly neglected by their father has told a jury that when they arrived at her house they were filthy, wearing soiled underpants and the youngest child was infested with lice.

The woman gave evidence that the girls, aged four and eight, were not properly toilet trained and ate “like savages”.

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http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0420/1224268698979.html

BOISE – Among many life accomplishments, one of Sandra Forester’s biggest, is being a child sexual abuse survivor.

“It feels wonderful to say, I’m in a really good place,” Forester said.

But she says that happiness is a new found freedom.

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http://www.kboi2.com/news/91613114.html

So far in 2010, there have been 84 confirmed victims of child abuse or neglect Milam County, according to the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

One case of child abuse that stands out in the mind of Cameron Police Lt. Kris Stringer involved the death of a baby girl, who was wrapped in a blanket and beaten for crying too much.

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http://www.cameronherald.com/articles/2010/04/19/news/news01.txt

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A Hoover man is being held in the Jefferson County Jail with no bond on a charge he sexually abused a child, Hoover police announced today.

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http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/04/hoover_sexual_abuse_suspect_ba.html

An 80-year-old Ninilchik man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to allegedly sexually abusing a 9-year-old girl several times last year.

Richard Earl Digel was arrested in March and was arraigned April 20 in superior court on eight felony sexual abuse of a minor charges.

Alaska State Trooper Mark Pearson’s affidavit spells out the details of the police investigation.

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http://www.peninsulaclarion.com/stories/042110/new_613478390.shtml

Sam And Rachel Petterson – Accused Of Having Sex With Dogs After Cops Find Bestiality Videos During Child Porn Investigation

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Jefferson, OR (The Weekly Vice) – Sam L. Petterson, 34, and Rachel M. Petterson, 32, were jailed after police allegedly found home videos of the couple having sex with dogs during a child porn investigation.

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http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2010/04/sam-and-rachel-petterson-accused-of.html