A Dexter couple is behind bars this morning following an investigation into a neglected infant.
According to Stoddard County Prosecuting Attorney Briney Welborn, the three month old baby was not being fed adequately and reportedly has Down Syndrome.
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KINSTON, N.C. – A 23 year old mom is in jail tonight facing charges for the death of her son.
Ashley Terrell is charged with first degree murder and one felony count of child abuse.
Her son, Jailyn McKoy died in November 2008.
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http://www2.wnct.com/news/2010/jun/10/mom-faces-charges-death-son-ar-219488/
WASHINGTON – Two ROTC instructors were indicted for child sexual abuse in unrelated cases by grand juries in two separate Maryland counties Wednesday.
The Howard County grand jury indicted a Bowie man, Charles Ray Moore, a JROTC instructor, charging him with having sexual contact with a 17-year-old member of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps program at Atholton High School in Columbia, the Baltimore Sun reported.
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West Columbia, SC – Police say 29-year-old Jason Lemmon Sr. got all stabby with an 11-year-old kid before attempting to strangle another. According to authorities, Lemmon began the assault against the older boy by punching him in the face. He then stabbed the child in the upper torso at least three times – violently enough to break the knife.
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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. – An assistant coach of a youth hockey team got pissed off at another player after they fouled his 17-year-old son after the whistle. Displaying a complete lack of forethought and two heaping handfuls of hot-headed stupidity, 50-year-old Ronald Synan entered the penalty box and confronted the 15-year-old Calvin Dickinson.
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Poland now has a harsh punishment on the books for perverts convicted of raping children or committing incest – chemical castration.
And that’s after the sex fiend serves a prison sentence!
The new law, which went into effect Tuesday, states that anyone convicted of rape of a minor under 15, or a close family member, “can be obliged by a court ruling to undergo pharmaceutical and psychological therapy in order to reduce sex drive.”
OLYMPIA — An Olympia salon manager has been charged with four counts of first degree child rape.
Mark J. Ford is accused of forcing a young boy to perform sex acts on him over 100 times over a six-year period in the early 1990s.
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WOBURN — A former girls basketball coach will spend at least 20 years in prison after years of manipulating and sexually assaulting young girls under his care at the Melrose YMCA, according to the terms of a plea agreement reached yesterday with the Middlesex district attorney’s office.
James Conner, 52, of North Reading, pleaded guilty to all 20 charges, including five counts of rape of a child with force and four counts of indecent assault and battery on a child, during a conference at Middlesex Superior Court in Woburn. By changing his plea, Conner avoided a trial in the case, which has dragged on for the past 16 months.
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MESA, AZ – A Mesa man has been arrested for allegedly beating his 4-year-old daughter in what police are calling one of the worst abuse cases they’ve ever seen.
George Kuykendall, 31, has been charged with 3 counts of child abuse in the beatings that happened over the weekend, according to police.
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Flint — The 24-year-old man accused of torturing and beating 4-year-old Dominick Calhoun to death was found competent to stand trial.
Brandon Hayes, formerly of Argentine Township was in 67th District Court in Flint Tuesday morning for a competency hearing. Hayes is facing life in prison since he has been charged with nine felony counts, including torture, child abuse, murder and drug charges. He remains lodged in the Genesee County Jail.
Hayes is accused of beating Dominick over several days, beginning on Thursday, April 8, through Sunday, April 11. Investigators on the case said Hayes allegedly beat the boy, as discipline, after he wet his pants while sitting on the living room sofa.
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http://www.tctimes.com/articles/2010/06/08/news/doc4c0ea62a9f464449726677.txt
A day care owner accused of child abuse and involuntary manslaughter after a 16-month-old boy died from heat exposure last March pleaded guilty and will serve up to 20 months in prison.
Judy Alvis Harper, 60, entered the guilty plea with no plea arrangement Tuesday in Alamance County Superior Court. Judge Paul Gessner ordered her to a jail sentence of 16 to 20 months and two years of supervised probation.
Telling kids about sexual abuse: how young is too young?
I think that talking to our children about sexual abuse is one of the most unpleasant aspects of parenting. We don’t want to scare them, yet we must prepare them. We want to protect them from the horrors of molestation, yet even contemplating bringing up the subject can make us feel as if we’re stripping away the purity of their innocence.
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Justin Barnes, 25, and Sara Turner, 26, of Clarksburg, are each facing four counts of child neglect resulting in injury and four counts of child abuse resulting in injury.
Information from the West Virginia Division of Health and Human resources say their 3-year-old daughter was found to have extensive bruises on her shoulder and legs and a broken wrist; their 2-year-old son had a broken leg, a head injury, hand and fingernail marks around and face injuries, and the 1-month-old girl had two broken ribs, which officials say are from two separate occasions.
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SARASOTA COUNTY – The Sarasota County Sheriff’s Office has arrested 24-year-old Tiffany Patrzykont of Nokomis and charged her with Child Abuse for Medical Neglect with Great Bodily Harm.
Detectives say Patrzykont failed to give medical staff accurate information to treat her 13-week-old son when she took him to Venice Regional Medical Center on May 16 and again on May 17. When the infant was finally transferred to All Children’s Hospital, doctors determined the infant had been deprived of oxygen and had been smothered.
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