The Nye County Sheriff’s Office says it arrested four faculty members at Floyd Elementary School accused of physically abusing students with mental and physical disabilities. Authorities say 53-year-old principal Holly Lepisto, 52-year-old teacher Sarah Hopkins, 73-year-old aide Phyllis DuShane and 56-year-old aide Kathryn Cummings were arrested Tuesday. They’re accused of five counts of child abuse and neglect and one count conspiracy to commit a crime.

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AKRON, Ohio — A jury found an Akron mother guilty of felonious assault after being charged with smacking a teen girl in the face with a baseball bat. Back in April, two teen girls got into an argument. One of the teens went home and told her mother, 38-year-old Shondra Bufford, about the altercation. So Bufford, her two daughters and Bufford’s sister all jumped into a car and drove to the home of the other teenager. Once they arrived, they all piled out with Bufford swinging a baseball bat inquiring who wanted to fight her daughter.

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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. ( KTLA) — Authorities in Florida have arrested a woman after a 2-year-old boy drank methadone from a sippy cup and died. Investigators say Masia Wright drank a lethal dose of methadone, which was allegedly left in the cup by the woman watching him. Dana Anderson, who is dating the child’s father, has been charged with aggravated manslaughter. Police say she admitted to leaving methadone in the sippy cup, which was on top of a dresser in her bedroom.

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SANTA ANA, Calif. — A former high school band director from Orange has been convicted on four counts in connection with her sexual relationship with an underage student.  According to prosecutors, 31-year-old Carlie Attebury was involved in an intimate relationship with a 15-year-old student. Attebury was found guilty Wednesday of one count of unlawful sexual intercourse, two counts of oral copulation of a minor under 16, and one count of sexual penetration by foreign object of a minor.

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STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A 2-year-old boy from Concord was subjected to several beatings, ultimately leading to his death Tuesday afternoon, authorities say. Police found little Josiah Taylor, unconscious and unresponsive in his 345 Mosel Ave. home at about 12:59 p.m. Tuesday. He was pronounced dead at Staten Island University Hospital, Ocean Breeze. An autopsy determined his death a homicide — the borough’s 15th of the year.

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An alleged madam regularly picked up a 16-year-old girl from her high school and drove her to a basement brothel to work until 8 or 9 p.m. a couple of days a week, authorities charged Wednesday. Rubicela Montero forced the underage girls and other victims into prostitution and threatened them or their families with death if they quit, authorities said. One girl called an anonymous hotline and tipped off Chicago police about the brothel in a Little Village basement apartment. Police set up a sting operation, sending in an undercover officer to pose as a client willing to pay for sex. Montero advertised in a Spanish-language newspaper, authorities said.

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WINNIPEG – A Winnipeg woman has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the suffocation death of her 20-month-old daughter. Nicole Redhead will be sentenced early next year. Redhead, 28, was arrested in July 2009 after her daughter Jaylene was found dead in a suite at the Native Women’s Transition Centre in Winnipeg. Redhead had repeatedly assaulted the girl in the days leading up to her death, Crown attorney Colleen McDuff told court Wednesday. The toddler suffered 30 separate injuries, including severe bruising and swelling to her vagina and bite marks on her legs.

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BATAVIA – A pregnant Clermont County woman was sentenced Wednesday to 15 years in prison in the death of her 2-year-old son, whom prosecutors said had been “tortured” on a daily basis. Krystle M. Hoskins, 24, had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in the death of Jerry Wells Jr. In imposing the maximum sentence allowed under Ohio law, Judge William Walker said it was the worst case of child abuse he had had presided over in his nearly 24 years in Common Pleas Court. Her husband, Timothy W. Hoskins, 42, who pleaded guilty to the June 1 murder of his stepson, was sentenced in October to life in prison. The boy died of asphyxiation, perhaps from being strangled.

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CHARLES CITY, Iowa — It was a bittersweet scene for Rene and Edvilla Banes of Charles City, parents of 3-year-old Krystel Banes. As they awaited the start of sentencing proceedings Monday for the 15-year-old who killed their daughter in July 2009, the couple and their son Banjo showed off the newest member of their family, 21-week-old Precious Angel.

Judge Bryan McKinley sentenced Edgar Concepcion Jr. Monday in Floyd County District Court to the mandatory terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole on the counts of first-degree murder and first-degree sexual abuse. He was sentenced to up to 25 years on the charge of sexual abuse in the second degree and up to five years on the charge of child endangerment.

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CLEVELAND – A Cleveland man, who is HIV positive, has been accused of raping a teenage boy that he met at the Cleveland Christian Home for Children. Officials said the suspect, 34-year-old Ronnie Sagere, was working with troubled youth at the home while the victim was staying there in 2007. The victim was discharged back to his parents that same year and lost touch with Sagere. Prosecutors said, a few months ago, the two became friends on Facebook.

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Judge Sets Bond At $2.5M During Arraignment

COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Columbus man, who is accused in his infant son’s death, is arraigned on murder charges Thursday. Quindell Sherman, 20, was arrested Tuesday night after Columbus homicide detectives said he threw his 3-month-old son to the ground several times and then threw the infant in a trash bin. The infant later died at Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Sherman’s bond was set at $2.5 million during the Thursday morning arraignment hearing.

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East Brookfield, MA – On October 21, a 3-year-old child was transported by ambulance to the UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester after she started “nodding off.’’ Police were notified after hospital staff found a needle mark on the child’s arm and heroin in her system. At that point, the little girl was placed in state custody and authorities began hunting for her mother’s boyfriend, 30-year-old Jeffrey LeBlanc.

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http://www.dreamindemon.com/2010/11/24/jeffrey-leblanc-thought-a-little-heroin-would-help-sick-toddler-feel-better/

Updated Wed Nov 24, 2010 10:26pm AEDT

A Canberra man who had sex with underage boys after telling them they were training to catch paedophiles, will spend at least the next six years behind bars. Aaron James Holliday pleaded guilty to committing an act of indecency on a child, two counts of possessing child pornography and eight counts of engaging in sexual intercourse with minors. The 24-year-old befriended his three child victims before abusing them. He told two of the boys they were being trained for a program called “pedobait” to help police catch paedophiles.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/24/3075085.htm?site=news