Acworth, Georgia – Joshua Wilson, 29, and his fiancee’ Tosha Jacobs, 25, were jailed Monday after police arrived at their home to find their three children locked inside a urine soaked room with bite marks and a 100-pound Rottweiler. According to Acworth Police, officers were called out to the couple’s home on a report of a possible dog attack, however when they arrived on the scene, they found three children living in dangerous and deplorable conditions.

Investigators say officers found the children (ages 2, 4 and 6) locked inside a bedroom at the residence along with a 100-pound Rottweiler. The mattress inside the room was soaked with urine and feces. Another mattress inside the home amounted to little more than a blanket that covered exposed springs.

When officers asked Wilson where his children were, he appeared to be too drunk to comprehend where they were, according to the arrest report. The home reportedly had no food, and the kitchen appeared to have caught on fire recently. Beer cans littered the bedrooms, kitchen and living room and bite marks were found on the children.

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Santa Cruz, California – Eric Lamb, a 38-year-old Live Oak man was jailed Monday after he allegedly threatened to run over a toddler on his bike, and then proceeded to do just that. According to Santa Cruz police, Lamb was riding a bicycling through San Lorenzo Park around 11:00 a.m. when he reportedly encountered two small children. Lamb began shouting profanities at the children, threatening to run them over if they didn’t get out of his way. Investigators say Lamb allegedly veered about 8 feet from his path and intentionally hit the 3-year-old boy, knocking him on the ground and running him over. Deputies found tire marks on the toddler’s sweatshirt.

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HICKORY, N.C. – A source close to the investigation tells NewsChannel 36 Hickory Police will hold a 4 p.m. news briefing on Friday in which investigators will announce that remains found Wednesday are in fact that of Zahra Baker. Hickory police confirmed that they will hold a press conference, but did not say anything specific about the reason or topic of the conference. Zahra Baker was reported missing by her father and stepmother, Adam and Elisa Baker, on Oct. 9.

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HURON TOWNSHIP, Mich. — Samantha Kelly endured merciless taunting from classmates after they learned that the high school freshman had accused a senior of rape. The weeks of harassment eventually became too much. Samantha went home from school Monday and hanged herself in this community southwest of Detroit. With their key witness dead, prosecutors on Wednesday dropped criminal charges against the older student, saying they had no case without the accuser’s testimony.

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http://www.ktla.com/news/landing/ktla-michigan-teen-rape-suicide,0,7260021.story

A Fact Sheet for Schools

What Is Human Trafficking?

What Is the Extent of Human Trafficking in the United States ?

Contrary to a common assumption, human trafficking is not just a problem in other countries. Cases of human trafficking have been reported in all 50 states, Washington D.C., and some U.S. territories. Victims of human trafficking can be children or adults, U.S. citizens or foreign nationals, male or female. According to U.S. government estimates, thousands of men, women, and children are trafficked to the United States for the purposes of sexual and labor exploitation. An unknown number of U.S. citizens and legal residents are trafficked within the country primarily for sexual servitude and, to a lesser extent, forced labor.

How Does Human Trafficking Affect Our Schools?

Trafficking can involve school-age children—particularly those not living with their parents—who are vulnerable to coerced labor exploitation, domestic servitude, or commercial sexual exploitation (i.e., prostitution).

Sex traffickers target children because of their vulnerability and gullibility, as well as the market demand for young victims. Those who recruit minors into prostitution violate federal anti-trafficking laws, even if there is no coercion or movement across state lines. The children at risk are not just high school students—studies demonstrate that pimps prey on victims as young as 12. Traffickers have been reported targeting their minor victims through telephone chat-lines, clubs, on the street, through friends, and at malls, as well as using girls to recruit other girls at schools and after-school programs.?

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http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/osdfs/factsheet.html

Eric Justin Toth, a former private-school teacher, is wanted for allegedly possessing child pornography in Washington, D.C. It is alleged that in June 2008, pornographic images were found on a school camera that had been in Toth’s possession. Toth also allegedly produced child pornography in Maryland. In December 2008, Toth was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury for the United States District Court, District of Maryland, for production of child pornography. In addition, Toth is facing a state charge for a sex crime in Maryland. Warrants have been issued in D.C. and Maryland for Toth’s arrest.

Toth may advertise online as a tutor. Toth attended Cornell University for a year and transferred to Purdue University where he graduated with an Education degree. Since June 2008, Toth is believed to have traveled to Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Toth is believed to have lived in Arizona in 2009.

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http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/cac

A former Mountain Home man will likely spend the rest of his life in prison for rape and creating pornographic images of a child. Federal judge Jimm Hendren sentenced Kirk Harry Demeyer, 52, formerly of Mountain Home, to four consecutive prison terms of 30 years each — 120 years total — following guilty pleas from Demeyer to four counts of production of child pornography, according to Baxter County Sheriff John Montgomery, who attended the trial.

Demeyer was arrested by federal and local authorities May 8, 2009, at his residence. He was charged with four counts of raping a pre-pubescent girl. Demeyer was already serving a 40-year sentence at Wednesday’s bench trail in Harrison. Demeyer pleaded guilty to state charges parallel to federal counts that all stem from a search of Demeyer’s residence at 298 Garden Terrace Drive.

Time for a game of which is more disturbing — starring 26-year-old Michael Barham, of Buckeye. Barham was arrested yesterday after Phoenix police got word that he may have some kiddy-porn on his computer. After searching his home and computer, kiddy-porn was the least disturbing stuff cops dug up — as hard to fathom as that may be. The most disturbing of the many items found in Barham’s posession is probably a toss up between the “child rape” videos and the bestiality flicks, but we’ll get to those later.

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http://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/valleyfever/2010/11/bestiality_and_child_rape_vide.php

GEORGETOWN, Del.- Delaware State Police have arrested a convicted sex offender accused of having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl. Edwin Alvarado, 29, of Georgetown, is charged with four counts of third-degree rape, endangering the welfare of a child and offensive touching. Police say an investigation conducted by troopers and members of the Child Advocacy Center revealed that Alvarado befriended a 14-year-old Georgetown girl over a 6-month period of time. According to police, during this period of time Alvarado allegedly engaged in a sexual relationship with the teenager at his home located in the County Seat Gardens Mobile Home Park.

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http://www.wboc.com/Global/story.asp?S=13485897

LEWISTON – Three area men have been arrested on multiple child sex abuse charges. Garfield County Sheriff Ben Keller said a Pomeroy father and son, Michael and Charlie Hopkins, were arrested late last week on charges of first degree incest, second degree rape of a child and second degree child molestation. They were being held in the Garfield County jail a $250,000 bonds. He said a third suspect, Delane Hopkins, was arrested on Monday in Asotin County and is also facing two counts of third degree child molestation and two counts of second degree incest related to the same alleged victim.

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http://www.klewtv.com/news/local/107093978.html

BALDWIN, Pa. — Baldwin police said a couple is accused of abusing their baby 10 weeks ago.According to investigators, Stephanie and Scott Faust were arrested Wednesday on charges of child abuse.Police said they have been investigating for two months, after the couple brought their 10-month-old child to Children’s Hospital. Officials from the hospital said they called police after the baby was brought in with several injuries.”The baby suffered a broken arm, several broken ribs and other types of lacerations to the body,” said Baldwin Police Chief Michael Scott.Scott said doctors didn’t believe the story the Fausts told them.

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PORTLAND, OREGON – Police have called in homicide investigators after a woman turned up at a hospital with a dead child. “On Tuesday November 9, 2010 at approximately 3:00 p.m., Portland Police officers responded to the emergency room at Oregon Health Sciences University on the report of an adult female who walked into the hospital with a deceased infant,” Portland police said. “Officers arrived and, after speaking with hospital staff and the adult female, called for detectives from the Homicide Division and the Child Abuse Team to respond.

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http://www.vancouverite.com/2010/11/11/portland-woman-turns-up-at-hospital-with-dead-child/

A Fresno man was taken into custody in connection with the death of his own 2-month-old daughter, it was announced Thursday. Jorge Hernandez, 20, was arrested for felony child abuse resulting in death. The investigation began Nov. 5 when staff at Madera’s Children’s Hospital called authorities about a possible child abuse case. The injuries to the 2-month-old girl was so severe, she had to be put on life support. She was taken off life support Wednesday night.  Hours later, Hernandez was booked into jail.

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http://www.kmjnow.com/pages/landing_news?Fresno-Man-Arrested-for-Childs-Death-=1&blockID=350872&feedID=806

Williamson, NC – Sara Dwiggins, a 24-year-old math teacher at South Creek Middle School in North Carolina has been arrested on charges of repeatedly having sex with a 14-year-old student. According to the Martin County Sheriff’s Office, Dwiggins had sex with the boy on at least two occasions while she was a teacher and he was a student at Bear Grass School in Martin County. Investigators say the incidents allegedly occurred in May and June of this year, but declined to get into further detail about the allegations.

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http://www.theweeklyvice.com/2010/11/sara-dwiggins-math-teacher-jailed-after.html