Police in North Carolina have charged former Manassas teacher Kevin Ricks with sexually molesting a young boy there more than 30 years ago in a case that stems from evidence that Ricks has abused numerous boys while working as a camp counselor, teacher and foreign exchange host since the late 1970s.
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A 48-year-old Minneapolis man who used wireless Internet connections in area coffee shops to share images and videos of children engaged in explicit sexual conduct pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of distributing child pornography.
Ivan W. Tencate admitted to distributing 314 images and 94 videos of child pornography. He was arrested by FBI agents at a downtown Minneapolis Dunn Bros coffee shop after they traced his Internet activity to that location.
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A Marshall man could face hundreds of felony charges after a young woman claimed he abused her for a number of years, officials say.
John Wayne Hensley, 44, of 185 Hensley Drive, was arrested Monday by Madison County deputies and charged with three felony counts of taking indecent liberties with a minor, jail records show. A detective said the initial complaint could theoretically lead to hundreds of charges if the district attorney chooses to pursue them. Madison County Sheriff Buddy Harwood said his department began investigating the case after the Department of Social Services reported that a 17-year-old girl said she was being sexually abused since she was in fourth or fifth grade. “She said she couldn’t stand it anymore,” Harwood said. “She said he had been touching her inappropriately for several years.”
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http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100922/SENTINEL/309220054
A 37-year-old man took the witness stand Thursday to deny charges that he had sexually abused his own son.
The boy, now 8, testified a day earlier in Baltimore County Circuit Court that his father had sought certain acts as “punishment” when the boy misbehaved. Prosecutors say the abuse took place between August 2008 and June 2009, and led to an indictment against the suspect after the boy told his mother about the allegations. The man was charged with sexual abuse of a minor, assault and two sexual-offense counts.
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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-father-abuse-case-20100923,0,3307872.story
LIVINGSTON PARISH, LA – Livingston Parish Deputies say a father admitted he beat and abused his daughter. The 11 year old girl told deputies she say in handcuffs chained to a desk for hours. She says she ate, slept, and at times used the bathroom while tied to the desk.
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BARTOW | A Lakeland man wanted for 15 years on charges that he sexually abused two children was arrested in a New Jersey public housing complex.
The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) reported an estimated 1,760 child fatalities in 2007. This translates to a rate of 2.35 children per 100,000 children in the general population. NCANDS defines “child fatality” as the death of a child caused by an injury resulting from abuse or neglect, or where abuse or neglect was a contributing factor.
With the exception of FFY 2005, the number and rate of fatalities have been increasing over the past 5 years. The national estimate is influenced by which States report data. For 2007, several States reported increased fatalities compared to FFY 2006, which resulted in a higher national estimate. To some degree, this can be attributed to improved data collection and reporting, but all the causes of the increase are not specifically identifiable.
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What is PTSD? Although traumatic events have long been known to cause psychological problems, the disorder itself was first formally characterized in the early 1980s. Even now it is the subject of controversy, with many psychiatrists and clinical psychologists saying a diagnosis of PTSD is meaningless (see articles in recent editions of the British Medical Journal). Personally I do not subscribe to this view, rather I believe the problem is one of inaccurate diagnosis.
Generally speaking PTSD is identified by the following three symptoms: 1) re-experiencing traumatic events (ie, obsessive recollections, flashbacks, nightmares); 2) avoidant symptoms (fear of being with people); and 3) signs of hyperarousal (easily startled, irritable). Traumatized people often suffer from a combination of PTSD, depression and other anxiety disorders. Often the victims of PTSD are mis-diagnosed. For example, some patients will present more severe symptoms of hyperarousal with severe depression. The re-experiencing of events is often mis-diagnosed as “obsessiveness” within a depressive disorder. Hyperarousal symptoms may be mis-diagnosed as insomnia and anxiety within a major depressive episode. Other PTSD victims are mis-diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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The six year old daughter of Majd Mohammed Al-Shara, already locked up on a second degree child abuse charge, died of burn injuries received over last weekend.
Al-Shara and his daughter Aliaa had been next to a fire pit when the 40 year old defendant dumped an accelerant, which police think was gasoline, onto the fire. The vapors exploded and the girl, only two feet from the fire, was burned over 90% of her body. Al-Shara received only minor burns.
Aliaa died yesterday at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.
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http://www.examiner.com/crime-in-detroit/update-daughter-of-macomb-man-charged-with-child-abuse-dies
Michael Williams, 28, a postman, who was jailed for eight-and-a-half years, used social networking sites to groom up to 1,000 child victims over a five-year period. He persuaded hundreds of children aged 10 to 16 to perform sex acts on an internet video camera, or webcam, which he recorded on carefully catalogued computer files.
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A retired priest received a 10-year suspended sentence today after entering an Alford plea to one count of child abuse in Frederick County Circuit Court. Visiting Montgomery County Circuit Judge Richard E. Jordan additionally sentenced Thomas Roy Bevan to 18 months of home detention and five years of probation. Additionally, Jordan ordered Bevan to undergo a mental health evaluation and receive treatment.
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http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/displayBreaking.htm?StoryID=110339
A Gilbert man, initially charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 13-month-old girl, pleaded guilty to lesser charges in a Maricopa County Superior Court this morning. David Arnold Reed III, 23, copped to manslaughter and child abuse in the 2009 beating death of Cheree Goard, the daughter of his girlfriend. Reed stood trial for the murder charge last month but the jury came back deadlocked. Another trial was scheduled for this month but Reid took the plea deal.
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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/09/gilbert_man_pleads_guilty_to_m.php
Bakersfield, CA – Aimee Archer called 911 Tuesday night and told a dispatcher her 4-year-old child had been the victim of a hit-and-run. When officers arrived on scene, Archer reportedly told them her child, angry because she wasn’t getting fast food that night, bolted out of the car and ran into the street where she was hit by a car. “I ran into the middle of the street and I got my baby and I put her into the car,” Archer said in an interview with KGET.
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/23/police-say-aimee-archer-ran-over-her-kid-lied-about-it/
Logan, UT – In October 2009, after a fight with her husband, Reggie Ann Peck attempted to kill her two young daughters by slipping the antidepressant drug Trazadone into their bottles. Fortunately, the girls didn’t ingest enough of the drug to suffer any ill effects. Reggie was arrested and charged with surreptitious administering of certain substance, assault, and domestic violence in the presence of a child. (The assault and DV charges stem from the fight with the husband). In January, Reggie entered a plea in abeyance through a mental health court – if she complied with terms of her probation, the charges would be dismissed.
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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/09/24/reggie-ann-peck-tried-to-kill-her-kids-again/
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