The parents of a four-year-old boy who sparked a police search after wandering off overnight have been charged with leaving the child home alone.
Concerns for Cody Kahui grew after it was discovered he was missing from his bed at his home in Roche Ave, Christchurch, about 3am.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Police are asking for help in locating a missing woman and her two young children.
24-year-old Amber Bovee and her two children, 5-year-old Kaylen Moon and 17-month-old Kayleb Moon were last seen July 10 at a relative’s house. Bovee’s sister reported her missing on Tuesday.
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SACRAMENTO — It was milestone legislation hailed at the White House, the culmination of an exhaustive campaign by bereaved parents to help prevent future abductions and murders of children.
Yet, nearly four years after the Adam Walsh Act was signed by then-President George W. Bush, California and 46 other states have refused to follow through and implement the law, despite its potential political appeal and the threat of losing federal funding for noncompliance.
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http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2010/jul/09/states-resisting-adam-walsh-act/
VANCOUVER — It’s been almost 30 years, but Brigitte Kozma Nordin’s small frame still shakes with grief when she talks about her younger sister, Judy, and the notorious killer who brutally murdered her one summer night.
On July 9, 1981, Judy Kozma accepted a ride from Clifford Olson.
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http://www.canada.com/news/Families+Olson+victims+dread+child+killer+name/3262437/story.html
A federal judge sentenced Portland children’s author K.P. Bath to six years in prison today for possessing child pornography he traded on the Internet.
The author of “The Secret of Castle Cant” and “Escape from Castle Cant” will serve a five-year term of supervision after his release and must register as a sex offender, Assistant U.S. Attorney Gary Sussman said.
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http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/07/childrens_author_kp_bath_gets.html
Duane Edward Taylor has spent most of the past 33 years in prison. Loose on the streets of Kingston for 11 days in 1981, he raped and murdered a two-year-old girl.
Now 49, he wants out of prison again.
“I don’t have any skills but I like animals,” Taylor told two National Parole Board members at a hearing last week in Saskatoon, where he appealed for his freedom.
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http://www.kingstonwhigstandard.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2662870
OSSINING — A 31-year-old village man remains behind bars and is due in court Thursday on charges he raped an 11-year-old boy, authorities said.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Investigators have asked journalists for footage of interviews with people who reported seeing a missing 7-year-old Portland boy after the time his stepmother says she left him at school.
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http://www.kgw.com/home/Police-seek-video-of-people-who-saw-Kyron-98532844.html
Do you remember being 13 years old? Picture your 13-year-old self and imagine someone older and seemingly much cooler taking an interest in you. It’s initially great. Then imagine it all goes terribly wrong. He becomes abusive and forces you to have sex with older men so he can make money. Terrified and repeatedly raped by “customers,” you reach a police officer one day. What happens next might surprise you. The handcuffs come out, and you are arrested for prostitution.
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http://www.ajc.com/opinion/change-exploited-kid-laws-569201.html?sms_ss=email
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Many adults face the difficult task of healing from physical, emotional, spiritual, or sexual abuse suffered in childhood. This is often made more difficult by isolation and feelings of shame and self-blame. Survivors may feel they must protect or shield those who abused, particularly if the perpetrators were family members.
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DALLAS, N.C. — A 7-year-old girl is the only survivor of a murder-suicide that left four family members dead, including her pregnant mother.
Gaston County Police Capt. Joe Ramey says the father, Austen Blake Minter, shot the woman and kids in the kitchen of their home sometime between midnight Thursday and 1 p.m. Friday.
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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-family-killed-dallas-sc,0,973076.story
A girl who was kidnapped when she was a toddler has been discovered alive and well nearly seven years later.
In a case that will give hope to the parents of Madeleine McCann, the victim was found hundreds of miles away from her hometown in California.
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