A Knoxville obstetrics nurse faces drunken-driving charges and unemployment after her child called 911 to report that he and his mother were in a car that was stuck on a set of railroad tracks.

Mary Beth Koeller, 45, was arrested at 3:15 a.m. Feb. 7 after attending a birthday party in Marion County. Koeller allegedly had left the party and was in her car, along with her 9-year-old son, when she made a turn onto what she thought was an alley.

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http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20100517/NEWS10/5170313/1011/Knoxville-nurse-fired-after-being-placed-on-child-abuse-registry

Bradley County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 9-1-1 call of a domestic disturbance Sunday evening in the 2500 block of Rodney Way.

Before they arrived on the scene, a neighbor who made the initial call reported a woman was outside the residence holding an infant by one leg upside down.

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http://www.wdef.com/news/huckeba_charged_with_aggravated_child_abuse_and_aggravated_child_endangerment/05/2010

WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal officials can indefinitely hold inmates considered “sexually dangerous” after their prison terms are complete.

The high court in a 7-2 judgment reversed a lower court decision that said Congress overstepped its authority in allowing indefinite detentions of considered “sexually dangerous.”

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100517/ap_on_go_su_co/us_supreme_court_sex_offender_law

Police are urging teenagers to remove their profile pictures and personal details from Facebook after a man was charged with the murder of a young Sydney woman last week.

It is alleged that Nona Belomesoff, 18, believed she was going to work with an animal welfare organisation when she left her home last Wednesday to meet two men she befriended on Facebook.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/05/17/2901537.htm

Parenting Tips: When abuse happens in the family

There can be unique challenges when a child is sexually abused by another family member, especially a member within the close or immediate family. Since more than half of all victims of sexual abuse are abused by a parent or relative this is a real issue that families may face. This can be difficult for both the victim of the abuse as well the child’s non-offending caregivers. Here are some challenges that both victims and caregivers may struggle with when sexual abuse has occurred within the family.

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http://www.journalstandard.com/news/x289818774/Parenting-Tips-When-abuse-happens-in-the-family

A 51-year-old Toledo man was arrested May 7 as part of an ongoing Internet sting after he agreed to meet and pay someone he thought was a 13-year-old girl for sex, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and Prosecutor Michael Golden.

Kenneth Goodwin, the Winlock postmaster, was booked in the Lewis County Jail on three counts of patronizing prostitution after his arrest in Winlock. He posted bail and was released

South Africa has the world’s highest incidence of rape; a girl born there today has a one in three chance of finishing school, and a one in two chance of being raped. The stories behind these statistics are explored in the documentary Dispatches: The Lost Girls of South Africa, to be screened next Sunday at 9pm on Channel 4.

Like a third of the 200,000 children who are raped in South Africa every year, Fuzeka, 12, was attacked by a close relative. Staring straight ahead, she recounts how her father indecently assaulted her, and told her that when he slept with her he would use a condom as he is HIV positive.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/south-africas-shame-the-rise-of-child-rape-1974578.html

A 60-year-old Santa Rosa School District bus driver has been arrested on suspicion of molesting a 13-year-old boy at a Sacramento motel in February.

Detectives with the Sacramento Sheriff’s Department’s Child Abuse Bureau arrested Petaluma resident Richard “Butch” Guillen on Thursday in the parking lot of the Bodega Bay Marina while he was transporting schoolchildren on a field trip, according to a Sheriff’s Department news release.

Davis County prosecutors claim the 4-year-old boy died May 9 following four days of abuse by his stepfather and mother. He had recently arrived in Utah to spend the summer with his mother as part of a child custody agreement.

His death has struck a chord in thousands of people. By Saturday, three Facebook pages dedicated to his case had a combined total of nearly 32,000 fans.

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http://www.sltrib.com/D=g/ci_15094513

WILLIAMSON – A Williamson man remains behind bars for the felonious abuse of his infant son Monday.

Williamson Police Department Lt. C. D. Rockel said 25 year old Justin Tyler ”Rooster” Russell of Williamson remains in Southwestern Regional Jail facing charges of child abuse resulting in serious injury.

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http://www.williamsondailynews.com/view/full_story/7443459/article-Local-man-jailed-for-alleged-child-abuse?instance=home_news_lead

The Dallas Children’s Advocacy Center says it cannot keep up with the growing number of children who need counseling after suffering physical or sexual abuse.

Even after adding another counselor, the center – which handles Dallas cases referred through Child Protective Services – has had to place children on a waiting list because of increases in the past five months, particularly in March.

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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-childabuse_16met.ART0.Central.Edition1.a1aec7e.html

L.A. County’s child welfare agency has a backlog of some 3,700 cases open 60 days or more. Department and union officials say they’re ‘at a breaking point’ with current staffing levels.

Los Angeles County’s child welfare system has failed to complete investigations into child abuse hotline tips involving more than 18,000 children within the time mandated by the state, according to county records.

Because of the backlog, state regulators recently extended L.A. County’s deadline for completing investigations from 30 days to 60, but Department of Children and Family Services officials have been unable to meet the new timeline as well. Some 3,700 cases — many involving multiple children — have been open two months or longer without determining whether abuse or neglect is taking place in the home.

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http://articles.latimes.com/2010/may/15/local/la-me-child-abuse-20100516

But it was at a neighborhood Safeway store in northern California where the sex slave problem became a terrible reality for one family. In 2008 Vicki Zito’s daughter was abducted there, then forced into unthinkable acts.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/extras/ktla-sex-slaves-sweeps,0,3561067.story