GRESHAM, Ore.  – Child abuse investigators said Monday a Gresham 5-year-old girl who died last week had been abused for years in what they said was the “worst case of child abuse that anyone can ever recall” in the area.

Detectives arrested the girl’s father, 23-year old Christopher Rosillo, and Guadalupe Quintero, a woman police said was a long-time live-in fiance of Rosillo’s.

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Pope Benedict XVI held an ‘intense and emotional,’ meeting in Malta with eight men who say they were molested as minors by priests.

Sex abuse victims meet pope, who admits ‘shame and sorrow’ over the suffering they have endured

Pope Benedict XVI was said to have been reduced to tears as he expressed his “shame and sorrow” over the Catholic church’s sex abuse scandal during a meeting with a group of victims in Malta.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/18/pope-child-abuse-sex-abuse

More controversy over Susan Clancy’s book which details her warped perception of child sexual abuse & the effects it has on children.

Beginning in the mid-1990s, Susan Clancy, now a psychology associate at Harvard, interviewed over 200 adults about memory and childhood sexual abuse experiences. Two-thirds of her interviewees were women. She solicited her subjects through a newspaper ad in the Boston Globe and other Boston-area newspapers. Unfortunately she does not completely describe her methodology, and her sample appears to have been biased.

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Baby suffered broken ribs, fractured skull

Watertown, CT– On April 1, a nurse who routinely visited the home of Marci and Merle Stimpson became alarmed when she noticed large bruises on their 4-month old infant and swelling on the baby’s head. The nurse called 911 and the baby was taken to a hospital where doctors found that the infant had suffered 12 rib fractures, a skull fracture, a black eye and extensive bruising. Three of the rib fractures were caused by squeezing, a doctor told police.

When questioned, Merle Stimpson gave the investigators many excuses for the bruises, including that the family cat jumped on the child’s back, that he accidentally dropped the baby a lot because he’s a “klutz”, and then he blamed the baby’s medication saying it was known to cause bruising.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/04/19/merle-and-marci-stimpson-should-not-be-breeding-or-breathing/

Eugene, OR – Wearing a black trench coat, that looked out of place on such a nice day, a man attempted to kidnap a two-year-old boy who had become separated from his mother. This happened at a Boy Scout carnival being held at Bethesda Lutheran Church.

Azoulas David Yurashunas, 23, was luring the toddler away from the crowd as the frantic mother called out for her son. The pair made it as far as the parking lot when an alert parent, Chrystal Batchelor, spotted the two about to leave and instinctively grabbed the child. Yurashunas immediately jumped in his car and sped away.

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http://deadkidsofmyspace.com/

Where He Belongs According to Director of Halfway House 100-Year-Old Theordore Sypnier Was Staying At

Theodore Sypnier, at age 100, is New York States oldest registered sex offender, in the back where he belongs, prison, according to the director of a halfway house the state’s oldest registered sex offender was staying at.

“He remained adamant that he was going to continue his behavior of molesting children. As a father myself, I’m glad to see him back in jail,” Rev. Terry King, Executive Director of Grace House, a halfway house in Buffalo, New York told ABC News today.

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A veteran Queens prosecutor said Thursday that a recent surge in brutal child abuse cases – including four deaths – is the worst she has seen in the borough in 25 years.

At least eight Queens children have been badly beaten since Feb. 25, and authorities are unsure what to do to stop the disturbing upswing.

“We’ve never seen anything like this,” said Marjory Fisher, chief of Special Victims Bureau in the Queens district attorney’s office.

The state legislature appears to have reached a reasonable compromise in debating whether to lift a 30-year statute of limitations on the filing of lawsuits alleging child sexual abuse.

Advocates for the change say having a statute of limitations in cases of child sexual abuse makes no sense. According to experts, it is common for child sexual abuse victims to suppress memories. Some children are unable to process the reality that a person they love or trust has violated them. They can feel guilty that they have done something wrong and fear turning to anyone.

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http://www.theday.com/article/20100417/OP01/304179930

TEXAS: Dozens of volunteers have joined police in Wylie, Texas as they work to identify a young boy found dead last week.

The body was found Thursday morning by a landscaper mowing the grass near Lavon Lake.

The Collin County medical examiner said Friday that the boy is about six years old and had significant medical needs and was likely being fed through a feeding tube.

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Christopher Wells, shown in this 2010 Florida Dept. of Corrections photo, is currently in jail on second-degree murder charges, after he left his daughter Christina with permanent brain-damaged after he violently shook her and covered her mouth to keep her from crying when she was two-months old. Christina never learned to walk, talk, or sit by herself and died in March 2006 at age 19.

(AP Photo/Florida Dept. of Corrections)

NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. — Soon after Christina Welch turned 18 in the spring of 2005, her biological parents asked permission to pay her a visit. Mike and Tina Wells broke down when the bed covers were pulled back and they saw the state of the girl: so severely brain damaged as a baby that she never learned to walk, talk or sit up by herself.

Maureen Welch, the woman who had adopted her, walked into the kitchen to leave the three of them alone, thinking to herself that it was good the couple finally got to see what Mike Wells had done to his infant daughter.

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Abuse reports are continuing to rise here, across nation

By John Gerstenmier
For the Salisbury Post

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.

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

Gary Eastburn talks Friday about Timothy Hennis being sentenced to death

for the murders of Eastburn’s wife, Kathryn, and two of their children.

SPRING LAKE — Gary Eastburn has questions for the man who was sentenced to death Thursday for murdering Eastburn’s wife and two of his daughters 25 years ago.

“I always wondered: ‘What the hell were you thinking when you did that? What could any of them have done to cause that?’ ” Eastburn said.

Kathryn Eastburn and children Kara, 5, and Erin, 3, were stabbed to death in their home in the Summerhill neighborhood of Fayetteville in May 1985. A third child, 22-month-old Jana Eastburn, was left alive.

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http://fayobserver.com//Articles/2010/04/16/991728