New Zealand’s child abuse statistics are keeping the country from being at the top of the State of the World’s Mothers’ Report.
Save the Children has revealed its annual list, with Norway at the top and Australia in second place. They were followed by Iceland, Sweden, Denmark, New Zealand, Finland, the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany.
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Police officers will start posing as teenagers in new online “e-patrols” aimed at luring pedophiles.
They will also monitor suspicious behavior and financial transactions, and check the accessing of websites in an intensification of the hunt for online child predators. New child protection laws will be introduced “as soon as it’s practical”, according to a spokesman for the UAE’s online anti-pedophile task force.
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http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100506/NATIONAL/705059810/1133/OPINION
Hong Kong- Nearly six out of 10 Hong Kong parents use corporal punishment to discipline their children, a child welfare group said Tuesday.
Researchers for the organization Against Child Abuse said 58 per cent of parents interviewed in a survey admitted to smacking or caning their children in the past 12 months.
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DELAWARE MAY EXTEND STATUE OF LIMITATIONS…
The latest attempt to extend the time frame victims have to report abuse is a direct response to the case against a Lewes pediatrician accused of sexually abusing more than 100 young patients.
Members of the State House approved HB 326 earlier this week in a 36 to 2 vote. The measure would create a two year window for victims of child abuse at the hand of a health care provider to file civil lawsuits against the abuser.
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BROOKSVILLE, FL — Tai-Ling Gigliotti could have accepted a plea deal, but instead she chose to go forward with this trial.
The prosecution claims she beat her adopted son and kept him a prisoner in their Spring Hill home. But the defense says the boy had plenty of freedom.
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NEWARK, N.J. — A detective, already suspended for battering a 15-year-old boy, is now facing criminal police brutality charges outlined in an indictment returned by an Essex County Grand Jury.
On March 24th, a security camera caught Det. Angel Pared, 28, punching Travis Rattray and pushing him into a glass door.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-nj-cop-indicted,0,814182.story
According to New Idea magazine in New Zealand, Carter surprised friends and family when she revealed her plans of having a baby with her own 26-year-old grandson, Phil Bailey.
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JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Adonis Giron, 43, had a nifty little scam going for a despicable pedophile. He posed as an MTV talent scout to lure young girls and then pry them with promises of fame and fortune. His Myspace page stated he is 26 and makes up to $250,000 as a manager at MTV.
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/05/03/man-who-posed-as-mtv-scout-gets-10-years-for-rape-of-girl-12/
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Teen Babysitter Admits Molesting Child
Corbin, KY – A 19-year-old man admits creeping into an 5-year-old child’s room and molesting her while she was sleeping.
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NISKAYUNA — A former volunteer high school softball coach will be sentenced next month to two years behind bars after admitting to having sex with a high school student at his home last summer, according to the prosecutor in the case.
At least one of those times, police said, Joseph Annello III gave the girl alcohol.
Deputies in Emmet County arrested a man they say raped an underage teenager several times.
The victim told police the assaults happened more than 20 times in Petoskey, Alanson and Pellston.
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STUART — An on-going state investigation into the downloading of child pornography from the internet has led to the door of a Jensen Beach man, where investigators say they found numerous pornographic videos and pictures of pre-teen girls on a home computer, officials said Tuesday.
David Martin, 29, of the 1800 block of N.E. 21st Terrace, Jensen Beach, is being held in the Martin County Jail under a $150,000 bail. The phone company service technician is charged with ten counts of possession of child pornography and each count is punishable by up to 15 year in prison, if convicted.
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http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/may/04/jensen-beach-man-29-charged-with-10-counts-of/
OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma City police say a 28-year-old woman arrested on first-degree murder and child abuse complaints in the death of her 1-year-old son admitted shoving on the child’s stomach.
Police arrested Brandy Perry on Saturday for the death Friday of Onlabee Blaine. Police initially reported the infant’s name as Blane Onlabee.
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http://muskogeephoenix.com/statenews/x1036627079/Mother-arrested-for-infant-sons-death
It took one phone call to reveal a Central Queensland family’s dark secret of sex abuse which lasted nearly 20 years.
The call triggered a chain of events which saw a father jailed for six years after he pleaded guilty to 20 charges of indecent dealing against three of his children.
Years after the abuse one of the man’s daughters had called her sister to tell her about the abuse, only to find out she’d also been through the same torment.
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http://www.themorningbulletin.com.au/story/2010/05/05/father-is-jailed-for-abuse-of-children/
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