BENSALEM, Pa. – Bensalem police said a Philadelphia mother faces child endangerment charges for allegedly leaving two children inside her car for nearly six hours while she gambled at Parx Casino.

The incident occurred Aug. 1st, when 35-year-old Sharon Balek left her 15-year-old and 8-year-old girls inside the car while she played the slots, police said.

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Child-welfare workers learned of family troubles involving the 2-year-old boy allegedly killed by his father, but the allegations were not enough to prompt the state to take him from his parents.

The stepfather of a Jackson woman charged with capital murder in the disappearance of her then-2-year-old son said she told him the child was living with one of her husband’s relatives.

“About five or six months ago we asked about the child, and she said the child was with Keith’s sister,” Carnell Brown said Thursday.

Police announced Wednesday that they had found the child’s remains near his home and had charged Kathleen Cassidy and her husband, Keith, in his death.

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Richard Volberding‘s water heater wasn’t working last February. So he called Daniel Johnson and Mark Owens to fix the thing. Problem for Volberding was that the guys had to walk past his computer to get to the circuit box — and Volberding didn’t bother closing photos of naked children in sexually suggestive poses on his computer screen. The repairmen saw ’em, figured out an excuse to leave the Volberding’s home and turned him in.

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CHARLOTTE – An Ecuadorian man accused of raping two children in south Charlotte should not have been in the country, according to Mecklenburg County Sheriff Chipp Bailey.

Police arrested 40-year-old Ricardo Velasquez on Sunday. He’s charged with two counts of rape, on children ages 7 and 8, but had been previously convicted of several other crimes, including at least one DWI in 2007.

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A Clay County woman charged with possession of drug paraphernalia because of a photo on her Facebook of her baby appearing to be puffing on a marijuana bong next heads to court Aug. 26.

Rachel Marie Stieringer, 19, of the 4400 block of Lake Road in Keystone Heights was charged July 29 after being alerted by a caller to the Florida Abuse Hotline from Texas who had seen the photo on her Facebook page.

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http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2010-08-12/story/facebook-photo-child-bong-gets-clay-woman-busted

KEARNEY — The square white stone isn’t flashy.

It has a name, birth and death dates, and a little lamb, but it’s the inscription that says it all: “Loved by many. Safe in heaven.”

The new headstone on Landon Payne’s grave is the result of an outpouring of emotion in the past two weeks for the victim of alleged child abuse.

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The Charles County Sheriff’s Office recently conducted an investigation into the report of sexual child abuse and solicitation of child pornography in which the suspect, Charles Arnell Smith, Jr., 25, a taekwondo instructor and owner of Global Sport Taekwondo in Waldorf, is accused of soliciting explicit photographs from a 14-year-old girl who had been a student of his at the academy.

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ALTAMONTE SPRINGS, Fla. — Two children were taken away from their biological parents because of abuse. Now, deputies say, their adoptive parents were torturing them in Altamonte Springs.

The adoptive parents, 49-year-old Dwayne Hardy and his wife, 46-year-old Pamela, were arrested Wednesday, but were free on $7,100 bond each Thursday.

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Guam – Officers from the Guam Police Department’S  Hagatna Precinct arrested a 38-year old man Thursday on multiple charges of Criminal Sexual Conduct.

According to a release from G.P.D., Alvin Gerald Naputi San Nicolas of Chalan Pago faces charges of 1st Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, 2nd Degree Criminal Sexual Conduct, Child Abuse, Felonious Restraint and Family Violence.

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A man facing a murder charge in connection with death of his 6-year-old stepson had been investigated by Child Protective Services on child-abuse allegations as far back as December, officials said.

CPS spokesman Steve Meissner said the state agency is conducting an investigation with local authorities against Koffi A. Dogbevi, 23, who is accused of beating Michael Ibarra on Aug. 3.

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A 30-year-old father told police he and his 4-year-old son often play rough, including slapping each other in the face.

But police charged Tavoris Doshaun McNeil of 212 S. Skyland Drive with misdemeanor child abuse Thursday after the boy had bruising on his ear, according to a warrant affidavit.

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TAMPA – On the day a 3-year-old boy died, his father had struck him several times and pulled a chair out from under him, causing the boy to strike the floor with a “thud,” investigators said.

John Taylor Baxley died soon after being transported to St. Joseph’s Hospital.

His father, 26-year-old Justin Garwacki, was arrested Wednesday on charges of aggravated child abuse, child abuse, child neglect and failing to report neglect of a child. Garwacki’s girlfriend, 21-year-old Kara O’Connell, was arrested on the same charges.

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