Police say that 31-year-old Toby Cundiff repeatedly raped the child from June 2005 to November 2009 starting when she was 7-years-old. The girl, now a teenager, told her mother recently who then went to police.

East Lampeter police charged him with with rape, rape of a child, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault, indecent assault and corruption of minors. Warwick Township police charged him with rape of a child, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assault of a child, indecent exposure, corruption of minors, open lewdness and indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age.

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

http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/05/07/toby-cundiff-charged-with-repeatedly-raping-7-year-old-girl/

Suspect suspended from Boy Scouts:
A 25-year-old Florida has been arrested for allegedly producing child pornography.

Agents say the investigation against 25-year-old Adam Brigham initially began in January when an undercover officer posing as a teenage boy was approached via MySpace by the Palm Bay resident.

Brigham had purportedly solicited sex and sent the detective explicit pictures using MySpace.

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http://deadkidsofmyspace.com/

INDIANA–Alarming figures

Statewide, substantiated cases of abuse and neglect for the year ending June 30, 2009 increased dramatically over 2008.

	2008	2009
Indiana	17,529	20,026
Adams County	69	93
Allen County	990	1,086
DeKalb County	298	458
Huntington County	127	103
Kosciusko County	218	213
LaGrange County	137	100
Noble County	137	199
Steuben County	173	196
Wells County	89	88
Whitley County	50	49

INDIANA–On the heels of a discouraging child fatality report, Indiana’s Department of Child Services released figures on child abuse and neglect cases showing almost a 24 percent increase statewide. The numbers offer more evidence that reductions in child protection services are coming at the worst of all possible times.

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http://www.journalgazette.net/article/20100508/EDIT07/305089971/1021/EDIT

HOBBS, N.M. (KBIM-KRQE) – Police responding to a medical call in Hobbs Friday morning found a 21-month-old child dead and later arrested the infant’s mother and the man who was with her.

Melinda Copeland, 21, and Christopher Elliott, 27, are both charged with child abuse resulting in death and a separate charge of child abuse related to a 3-year-old child of Copeland’s, according to the Hobbs Police Department.

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http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/crime/hobbs-couple-charged-in-childs-death

A Covington County man is behind bars accused of torture and willful abuse of a child.

Twenty four year old Jeremy Edward Gibson of Andalusia is charged with one count of aggravated child abuse.
Officials say Gibson confessed to committing acts that caused injuries to a seven week old infant.

READ MORE HERE:

http://www.wncftv.com/localnews/93156004.html

Kentucky Ranks No. 1 In Country For Child Abuse Deaths

LOUISVILLE, Ky. —

Last year, 86,454 children were involved in reports of child abuse or neglect made to the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services Department of Protection and Permanency.Child abuse experts said the number of reported cases is far from the actual number of incidents.

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http://www.wlky.com/news/23489831/detail.html

SUSPECT
Robert Roland Yerton Jr.: Accused of lewd molestation and sexual abuse, he has been a teacher, children’s minister and youth group leader.

Believing that there could be more victims who have yet to come forward, Tulsa police are continuing to investigate the Skelly Elementary School assistant principal who has been charged with three sex offenses against children.

Robert Roland Yerton Jr., 41, is charged in Tulsa County District Court with the lewd molestation of a 6-year-old boy in a school office on Oct. 21 and two counts of sexual abuse involving a boy he is related to between 2003 and 2009.

Police said their investigation also revealed that a former student is a third apparent victim of sexual abuse, but no charges regarding that student were filed because the allegations stem from a 1996 incident, which is outside the statute of limitations.

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http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=332&articleid=20100508_19_A15_Believ291949

Signs of physical abuse include visible marks of maltreatment, such as cuts, bruises, welts, or well-defined burns, and reluctance to go home. Also, the agency notes, “If you ask a child about how he or she got hurt and the child talks vaguely or evasively about falling off a fence or spilling a hot dish, think hard before you accept the child’s story at face value.”

People should also be alert to signs of sexual abuse such as inappropriate interest in or knowledge of sexual acts, seductive behavior, a reluctance or refusal to undress in front of others and fear of a particular person or family member.

READ MORE HERE:

http://blog.oregonlive.com/themombeat/2010/05/recognizing_child_abuse_and_kn.html

SUFFERN, N.Y. — Pro Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor was charged Thursday with raping a 16-year-old runaway in an encounter that police said was arranged by a man who beat her up before driving her to Taylor’s suburban hotel room while she texted her uncle for help.

Taylor, the 51-year-old former New York Giant who has faced drug and tax evasion charges in the past, paid the girl $300 for sex in a Holiday Inn, where he was arrested early Thursday, said Christopher St. Lawrence, supervisor of the town of Ramapo.

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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jyD5dfPKgiAlOgilDRlCSJlDlNawD9FHK5200

BELLEFONTE — In a style of courtroom drama usually reserved for scripted television, a former North Carolina professor sealed his fate in Centre County court Wednesday as he and his defense attorney engaged in role-play, reading aloud to jurors the extremely explicit and foul-language cybersex conversations he had with the 12-year-old Julian boy that he was accused of raping.

In the nine months between June 2009 and April 2010, 75 children have been killed by fathers involved in volatile custody battles with their former partners, according to the Center for Judicial Excellence, a court advocacy organization which has been tracking news articles of such deaths around the U.S. Based in San Rafael, California, the Center focuses on strengthening court integrity as well as improving public accountability of the judiciary.

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http://thecrimereport.org/2010/05/06/failure-to-protect-the-crisis-in-america%E2%80%99s-family-courts/

OREGON CITY, Ore. — Prosecutors showed graphic pictures in court Thursday in what they called one of the worst child abuse cases they’ve ever seen.

Assault, criminal mistreatment and reckless endangerment charges against 23-year-old Derek Piskorski stem from the alleged abuse of a 3-year-old boy. Piskorski was dating the child’s mother.

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http://www.kgw.com/news/local/Suspect-accused-of-scalding-3-year-old-92991664.html

CHESAPEAKE, Va. (WAVY) – A Chesapeake father pleaded guilty Thursday, to killing his 5 year old daughter.

Police arrested Joshua Sawyer in June 2009 after the death of his daughter, Carly. Officers responded to his Oliver Avenue home to investigate a complaint of child abuse. Police said the little girl was confined in a box, tied up, beaten and denied food.

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http://www.wavy.com/dpp/news/local_news/joshua-sawyer-pleads-guilty-to-killing-daughter-carly-jw