TRANSYLVANIA, N.C. –Terrance Deron Lewis, 43, of Pisgah Forest, faces one felony count of child abuse inflicting serious injury, according to deputies.
The investigation began after Lewis and the 5-month-old’s mother took the baby to Transylvania Regional Hospital.
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http://www2.wspa.com/news/2010/jul/02/transylvania-county-father-charged-child-abuse-ar-483441/
FOUR counts of rape and four separate counts of child abuse charges were filed in court against a man, who allegedly sexually abused two young girls.
The suspect’s identity is withheld since his alleged victims were relatives of his live-in partner.
The victims were cousins.
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A primary school assistant who was caught with more than 21,000 indecent images of children has been jailed for seven years and 10 months.
Syd Beg admitted downloading the images at his home in Glasgow’s Maryhill area between January 2000 and January 2010.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/10508503.stm
OCEAN PINES — A Bishopville teenager faces child abuse charges after an Ocean Pines mother allegedly recorded the teen’s attacks on her daughter on videotape.
Bishopville resident Carleigh Renee Kufchak, 19, has been charged with first- and second-degree child abuse, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment after a June 25 incident with a blind 8-year-old girl she was baby-sitting.
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http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20100703/NEWS01/7030342/Baby-sitter-charged-with-child-abuse
Four Americans, nabbed in a two-year investigation into an international online child pornography ring, were sentenced in federal court in Indiana Friday, according to the federal Department of Justice.
Michael Barrata, 49, of Sacramento, CA, Scott Van Dorp, 51, of Nashville, IN, William Watkins, 39, of Lake Worth, FL, and March Beren Reeder, 33, of Harrisburg, PA, were part of a sophisticated, password-protected Internet bulletin board group, which allowed members to meet like-minded individuals with a sexualized interest in children, to discuss that interest and to trade images of child pornography, authorities said.
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http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/32622/20100705/pornography.htm
Of all the ways that child abuse impacts society – from dysfunctional individuals; to families falling apart – it goes without question that child abuse impacts our legislation. As primitive cultures evolve and recognize that the well-being of children is important, they come to create laws concerning children. Above and beyond all the harm that children endure, it is these laws that somehow impact us the most.
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http://www.helium.com/items/1881374-child-abuse-society-legislation-laws
BOULDER – Former Rocky Mountain High School counselor Brad Boda was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to two counts of sexual abuse on a child.
Boda in April pleaded guilty to molesting children when he was a church counselor in Longmont in the late 1990s and early 2000s. “These children have suffered for 16 years,” Judge Gwyneth Whalen said in pronouncing the sentence.
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http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20100702/NEWS01/7020332/1002/CUSTOMERSERVICE02
A sexual predator may be close by. “People who abuse look and act just like anyone else,” said Paula Sellars, narrator of Stewards of Children, a video component for the Darkness to Light Workshop, presented June 28 by Georgia Center for Child Advocacy at the DeKalb County Crime Prevention Tour at Charles Drew Charter School in East Lake.
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Gilroy police nabbed an alleged serial child sexual abuser in San Jose.
Efren Becerra, 29, of Lean Avenue in San Jose, was arrested Thursday at his home for the ongoing sexual abuse of a child, among a host of other charges. He is charged with three counts of having sexual intercourse, sodomy, oral copulation or penetration of a child younger than 10, two counts of ongoing sexual abuse of a child, lewd acts with a child 14 or 15 years old when a perpetrator is 10 years older than the victim and lewd or lascivious acts with a child younger than 14.
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http://www.morganhilltimes.com/news/266943-serial-sexual-abuse-charged
Wesley Chapel, Fl – On Wednesday afternoon the employees of Little Pioneers Daycare Center were treated by a surprise visit from Ottis Ryan. Ottis was denied entry but somehow managed to weasel his way inside the daycare. A very brave Susan Singeltary retreated inside into the infants room after calling 911. Ottis followed her, so Susan used her body to block the entrance and attempted to stall him with questions until the police arrived. After asking what he had in his bag, Ottis produced set of brass knuckles with blade.
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SYDNEY (AFP) – An Australian Catholic priest was sentenced Friday to almost 20 years in jail for child sex attacks which the judge said were sadistic and went unpunished for many years.
John Sidney Denham, 67, was sentenced to 19 years and 10 months after pleading guilty to a range of charges, including multiple counts of indecent assault against boys aged five to 16.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100702/wl_asia_afp/australiacrimesexchildreligionpriest
Raleigh, N.C. — Raleigh police have arrested a 24-year-old man who they believe repeatedly raped a child, according to arrest warrants.
Shaquon Allen Griffin, who has addresses in Durham and South Carolina, faces six counts each of first-degree rape and sexual offense against a child. He was being held in the Wake County jail Friday under a $2 million bond.
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A deputy head teacher on Merseyside has admitted encouraging another man to rape a three-year-old girl.
Patrick Lennon, 59, who taught at Greenbank High School in Southport since the 1970s, pleaded guilty to a string of sexual offences.
Liverpool Crown Court heard that Lennon contacted John Hawley, 38, from Halliwell, Bolton, and Philip Skitt, of Orrell Road, Wigan over the internet.
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Williamsburg police have arrested a 17-year-old today in connection with a 6-year-old girl being raped. The juvenile suspect is headed for a detention facility but police say the 17-year-old was not alone in the crime.
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http://www.wtkr.com/news/wtkr-williamsburg-child-rape-arrests,0,2158573.story
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